Dr Reshanne Reeder
@kerblooee.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, mom, citizen of the world. Interested in mental imagery extremes and divergent perception. Got a cool theory.
The "Ganzflicker Lady"
https://reshannereeder.com
The "Ganzflicker Lady"
https://reshannereeder.com
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Dr Reshanne Reeder
@kerblooee.bsky.social
· Feb 14
A novel model of divergent predictive perception
Abstract. Predictive processing theories state that our subjective experience of reality is shaped by a balance of expectations based on previous knowledge abou
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Can we predict who is going to experience hallucinations? I think we can, in a new theory paper with @tesvlee.bsky.social and Giovanni Sala
"A novel model of divergent predictive perception"
Now published in Neuroscience of Consciousness
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
"A novel model of divergent predictive perception"
Now published in Neuroscience of Consciousness
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Ganzflicker gets a lot of hate, but look- I know it's cheesy. But the name is probably why it's so popular, and got me my job. People will always make fun of things that are different... but if you just go by what everyone else thinks, you'll never stand out 🙃
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Ganzflicker gets a lot of hate, but look- I know it's cheesy. But the name is probably why it's so popular, and got me my job. People will always make fun of things that are different... but if you just go by what everyone else thinks, you'll never stand out 🙃
If more women could do work on visual illusions that would be great, why is this such a male dominated field?
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If more women could do work on visual illusions that would be great, why is this such a male dominated field?
Excited to see this article is out! A thoroughly researched article on imagery extremes. If you read carefully, a couple of my most recent thoughts about hyperphantasia are also featured :-)
This includes... 1/4
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This includes... 1/4
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
www.newyorker.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Excited to see this article is out! A thoroughly researched article on imagery extremes. If you read carefully, a couple of my most recent thoughts about hyperphantasia are also featured :-)
This includes... 1/4
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This includes... 1/4
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body... but then I thought, "well, look what's telling me that"...
-Emo Philips
-Emo Philips
The brain is the stupidest object in the universe.
Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain.
Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.
Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain.
Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.
October 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body... but then I thought, "well, look what's telling me that"...
-Emo Philips
-Emo Philips
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
NEW paper! 💭🖥️
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
NEW paper! 💭🖥️
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
If you can see the balance of how much an author collaborates vs. had the primary/senior position, it can actually highlight those collabs, or reveal a potentially problematic imbalance. I'm happy to hijack the metric to get insights I think are important. We don't have to use it as Google intended.
October 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If you can see the balance of how much an author collaborates vs. had the primary/senior position, it can actually highlight those collabs, or reveal a potentially problematic imbalance. I'm happy to hijack the metric to get insights I think are important. We don't have to use it as Google intended.
share.google/FkOnXVNpGvvZ...
I've been playing around with this and it's actually kinda neat - it separates an author's h-index into 1st, 2nd, other, and last authorship positions. Perhaps this could encourage a more even spread (& ignore the final weighted metric proposed). What do you think?
I've been playing around with this and it's actually kinda neat - it separates an author's h-index into 1st, 2nd, other, and last authorship positions. Perhaps this could encourage a more even spread (& ignore the final weighted metric proposed). What do you think?
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
share.google
October 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
share.google/FkOnXVNpGvvZ...
I've been playing around with this and it's actually kinda neat - it separates an author's h-index into 1st, 2nd, other, and last authorship positions. Perhaps this could encourage a more even spread (& ignore the final weighted metric proposed). What do you think?
I've been playing around with this and it's actually kinda neat - it separates an author's h-index into 1st, 2nd, other, and last authorship positions. Perhaps this could encourage a more even spread (& ignore the final weighted metric proposed). What do you think?
"Maybe this time I can solve all of life's problems when I wake up at 4am"
-my brain
-my brain
October 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"Maybe this time I can solve all of life's problems when I wake up at 4am"
-my brain
-my brain
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ammar I. Marvi, Nancy G. Kanwisher, et al:
An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
October 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ammar I. Marvi, Nancy G. Kanwisher, et al:
An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
Happy to share our last article on a computational model of traveling waves! @erc.europa.eu funded work led by Dugué Lab PhD student Joao Cardoso.
@upcite.bsky.social
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
@upcite.bsky.social
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
Attention-induced perceptual traveling waves in binocular rivalry | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Happy to share our last article on a computational model of traveling waves! @erc.europa.eu funded work led by Dugué Lab PhD student Joao Cardoso.
@upcite.bsky.social
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
@upcite.bsky.social
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching share.google/UMERED1ptRSC...
Wow what a clever new idea that's never been tried before, so we can't know if anything will go wrong, oh wait:
No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia share.google/2yfqMkBgaTfR...
Wow what a clever new idea that's never been tried before, so we can't know if anything will go wrong, oh wait:
No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia share.google/2yfqMkBgaTfR...
Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching
Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met
www.thetimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching share.google/UMERED1ptRSC...
Wow what a clever new idea that's never been tried before, so we can't know if anything will go wrong, oh wait:
No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia share.google/2yfqMkBgaTfR...
Wow what a clever new idea that's never been tried before, so we can't know if anything will go wrong, oh wait:
No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia share.google/2yfqMkBgaTfR...
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Scrolling through my list of Sona participants and calling out the zoomy clickers:
"You didn't pass the attention check! You know what that means, 24601!"
"You didn't pass the attention check! You know what that means, 24601!"
a man speaking into a microphone with the words and i 'm javert
Alt: Javert from Les Miserables singing, "And I'm Javert!"
media.tenor.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Scrolling through my list of Sona participants and calling out the zoomy clickers:
"You didn't pass the attention check! You know what that means, 24601!"
"You didn't pass the attention check! You know what that means, 24601!"
"How will you get a job if you don't embrace chatgpt?"
Counterpoint: how will you get a job if your frontal cortex is turned off?
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Counterpoint: how will you get a job if your frontal cortex is turned off?
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"How will you get a job if you don't embrace chatgpt?"
Counterpoint: how will you get a job if your frontal cortex is turned off?
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Counterpoint: how will you get a job if your frontal cortex is turned off?
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.
🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🧪
October 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🧪
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🧪
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Whoa!
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
September 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Whoa!
Ahem. Mental imagery (& imagery-critical) researchers should read this:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Self-reports are better measurement instruments than implicit measures - Nature Reviews Psychology
Implicit measures are widely used because they are assumed to be superior to self-reports. In this Perspective, Corneille and Gawronski challenge this view and argue that claims about disadvantages of...
www.nature.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Ahem. Mental imagery (& imagery-critical) researchers should read this:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
ABC is owned by Disney. If you, like me, subscribe to Disney+, consider cancelling your subscription over this. Are you happy to support Disney in leading this first amendment violation?
September 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
ABC is owned by Disney. If you, like me, subscribe to Disney+, consider cancelling your subscription over this. Are you happy to support Disney in leading this first amendment violation?
Do you live in or around Liverpool?
Recruiting now for paid research on mental imagery - you don't have to be a student to take part!
Sign up to the Liverpool Imagery Database and discover your mind's eye potential!
livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@livunipsyc.bsky.social
Recruiting now for paid research on mental imagery - you don't have to be a student to take part!
Sign up to the Liverpool Imagery Database and discover your mind's eye potential!
livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@livunipsyc.bsky.social
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
Sign up to participate in mental imagery research!
livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Do you live in or around Liverpool?
Recruiting now for paid research on mental imagery - you don't have to be a student to take part!
Sign up to the Liverpool Imagery Database and discover your mind's eye potential!
livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@livunipsyc.bsky.social
Recruiting now for paid research on mental imagery - you don't have to be a student to take part!
Sign up to the Liverpool Imagery Database and discover your mind's eye potential!
livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@livunipsyc.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Reshanne Reeder
This is insane. Every ECR should watch this!
OMG investigative journalists actually did this in 2018 - why is this video not more well known?? A talk and documentary about the predatory publishing/conference world & its disastrous real-world consequences. Riveting watch 👀
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...
September 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is insane. Every ECR should watch this!
"We confronted many universities with our findings, and now it's up to them what they do."
"We will look in 1-1.5 years again and see if the scientific community will be able to cure this."
-2018
"We will look in 1-1.5 years again and see if the scientific community will be able to cure this."
-2018
OMG investigative journalists actually did this in 2018 - why is this video not more well known?? A talk and documentary about the predatory publishing/conference world & its disastrous real-world consequences. Riveting watch 👀
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...
September 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"We confronted many universities with our findings, and now it's up to them what they do."
"We will look in 1-1.5 years again and see if the scientific community will be able to cure this."
-2018
"We will look in 1-1.5 years again and see if the scientific community will be able to cure this."
-2018
OMG investigative journalists actually did this in 2018 - why is this video not more well known?? A talk and documentary about the predatory publishing/conference world & its disastrous real-world consequences. Riveting watch 👀
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...
September 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
OMG investigative journalists actually did this in 2018 - why is this video not more well known?? A talk and documentary about the predatory publishing/conference world & its disastrous real-world consequences. Riveting watch 👀
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...
youtu.be/ras_VYgA77Q?...