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Open to postdoc positions; PhD student majoring in cognitive psychology at University of California, Riverside; [email protected]
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bobodeligong.bsky.social @bobodeligong.bsky.social · Oct 16
Why does time feel slower when lifting weights?
Our new study in JEP: Human Perception & Performance shows that physical effort speeds up internal timing, supporting the arousal hypothesis. Check it out here—I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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Effects of Physical Effort on Temporal Processing
The interaction between temporal processing and physical effort plays a crucial role in our daily activities. The present study therefore assesses the effects of a simple(est) physical effort (i.e., i...
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martinwiener.bsky.social
Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency

Very cool review on image memorability (hint: priority coding is key) by Wilma Bainbridge, @dirkbwalther.bsky.social @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx

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Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency
Nature Reviews Psychology - Certain items are better remembered than others across individuals, a property known as memorability. In this Review, Bainbridge and colleagues detail memorability...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I have been emailing with a student offering advice about navigating the post-PhD job market and it struck me that the advice was general enough that more people might benefit. So here you go!

tl;dr: Figure out what you want your contribution to be, and make choices that can make that happen.
Q: When I think about what will set me up for a university job, what should I evaluate potential post-docs based on? Should I consider things like the institution and where it's based? Is it about the subject matter of the project and the kind of papers I'll publish and the skill set I'll use? Or is it more about the connections that I'll have the opportunity to make and going to conferences and that kind of thing? A: I think the main things are: (a) the kinds of papers you'll end up being able to publish; (b) the skill set you'll acquire; and (c) the connections you can make. But all of these are contextually dependent -- really what matters is that they pave the path that you want to take and support your narrative of what you do and how you fit (because once a candidate passes a certain bar for quality, hiring decisions are usually made on the basis of skills and fit). To illustrate: if you want to be the kind of researcher whose contribution to your school/field (and narrative) is that you have certain skills, or a certain area of expertise, then you want your postdoc to be one that develops those skills/expertise, where you write papers that showcases that you have those skills/expertise, and where you create connections with people who care about those skills/expertise. That's why it's so important to figure out your narrative and what you want to do: it all starts from there. So the question is not: how do I set myself up to get a university job? It is what kind of university job do I want, and how do I set myself up for that? Some people are like, I don't care, I just want any job! But people don't want to hire people who have no "why" for what they do beyond just getting money -- people hire people who have a contribution to make. So figure out what contribution you want to make, and then choose a postdoc that will best set you up to be able to make it. (And you can always change direction, people do that often, but you want to start with a direction).
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence
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Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Excited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1

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Sharpened visual memory representations are reflected in inferotemporal cortex
Humans and other primates can robustly report whether they've seen specific images before, even when those images are extremely similar to ones they've previously seen. Multiple lines of evidence sugg...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Neural Oscillation as a Selective Modulatory Mechanism on Decision Confidence, Speed, and Accuracy
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Neural Oscillation as a Selective Modulatory Mechanism on Decision Confidence, Speed, and Accuracy
Neural oscillations have been associated with decision-making processes, but their underlying network mechanisms remain unclear. This study investigates how neural oscillations influence decision netw...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Flexible Use of Limited Resources for Sequence Working Memory in Macaque Prefrontal Cortex
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Flexible Use of Limited Resources for Sequence Working Memory in Macaque Prefrontal Cortex - Nature Communications
How the brain represents and allocates limited working memory resources remains unclear. Here the authors show that the geometry of compositionality in macaque prefrontal neurons underlies the flexibl...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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martinwiener.bsky.social
Incredible article
nataliepeluso.com Natalie Peluso 🧠​🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · Nov 13
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Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
György Buzsáki
(2025)

Physical time is measured using arbitrary units whereas experienced time is linked to a hierarchy of brain–body rhythms... these rhythms, may be the source of our subjective feeling of time. 👇💥

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Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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payampiray.bsky.social
Happy to share my new paper published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: A critical look at statistical power in computational modeling studies, particularly those based on model selection.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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bertogliolab.bsky.social
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
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Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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stillman.bsky.social
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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northernthrux.bsky.social
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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mjcrockett.bsky.social
Important work revealing limitations of using LLMs as human surrogates.

Note, however, that even if LLMs' textual outputs were perfectly human-like, they would still be poor models of human cognition, as @lmesseri.bsky.social argue here:
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November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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ayeletlandau.bsky.social
📣New paper alert!📣
Ever wonder how to model the temporal generalization task? Interested in cross-modal comparisons? Our paper (w/ the magnificent Nir Ofir!) is for you! @timingresforum.bsky.social this could make for a solid post-conference decompression read
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A drift-diffusion model of temporal generalization outperforms existing models and captures modality differences and learning effects - Behavior Research Methods
Multiple systems in the brain track the passage of time and can adapt their activity to temporal requirements. While the neural implementation of timing varies widely between neural substrates and beh...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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minzlicht.bsky.social
People are lazy--except when they're watching other people work hard.

My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1

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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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danmirea.bsky.social
🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
“The rotating waves act like herders that steer the cortex back to the correct computational path,” said study senior author Earl K. Miller, Picower Professor in The Picower Institute and MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. #neuroscience
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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cognitionjournal.bsky.social
"Feature-based Filtering Determines Object-based Selection in the Attentional Boost Effect"

📢New paper from: Juyeon Joe, Yoongeol Yang, & Min-Shik Kim

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October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
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Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visual brain rhythms also serve a key function in the r...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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jthee.bsky.social
Using intracranial recordings from 22 people, we show that hippocampal theta activity enables earlier decoding of the upcoming target, supporting automatic performance. This is specific to the hippocampus, with later involvement of ripple bursts.
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Automaticity speeds the retrieval of instances from the human hippocampus | PNAS
Automatic processing allows humans to perform tasks with minimal effort following learning. Although theories of automaticity propose that learning...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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psychscience.bsky.social
Research reveals how people process information, how they acquire—and sometimes reject—knowledge, and how that compares to artificial intelligence systems’ abilities to do the same. @runnerteal.bsky.social #AI
Unearthing the Nature of Knowing
Research reveals how people process information, how they acquire—and sometimes reject—knowledge, and how that compares to artificial intelligence systems’ abilities to do the same.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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jonathanamichaels.bsky.social
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
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Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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singhal.bsky.social
Really cool work! Liked the discussion on the issue of differentiating perception vs. recollection of time. A way out is via a phenomenal contrast. We did this to show that time contraction was due to perceptual boundaries and not memory (specific to our study) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A wrinkle in and of time: Contraction of felt duration with a single perceptual switch
The way we represent and perceive time has crucial implications for studying temporality in conscious experience. Contrasting positions posit that tem…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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brynnsherman.bsky.social
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science
While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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utochkin.bsky.social
Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces"
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October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM