Marcos E. Domínguez Arriola
elidom.bsky.social
Marcos E. Domínguez Arriola
@elidom.bsky.social
PhD Candidate - Neuropragmatics and Emotion Lab @mcgill.ca. I study why we enjoy and engage in social interactions.

website: elidom.github.io/home/
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
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The Entangled Brain
Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger ...
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December 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Telling good science from bad – a user’s guide to navigating the scientific literature www.wiringthebrain.com/2021/08/tell...
Telling good science from bad – a user’s guide to navigating the scientific literature
“Did you find it convincing?” That’s what one of my genetics professors used to ask us, a small group of undergraduates who blinked in respo...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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New study out in Neuron: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne.... This work led by Zaid Zada uses fMRI hyperscanning of real dyads to show that speaking and listening rely on shared neural systems; and that conversation recruits unique brain processes that aren't observed in passive comprehension.
Redirecting
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December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Great news to wrap the year!
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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New paper alert!

"Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science!

This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project).

Short THREAD on the results:
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🥳 So pleased to share our new publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The whole @kinderstudien.bsky.social lab got together to do a little scientific retreat last year and this is the result - a truly developmental perspective on the phenomenon of interpersonal neural synchrony 🧠🧠 👨‍🍼👩‍🍼
A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony
Interpersonal neural synchrony (INS), the temporal alignment of brain activities between individuals, has been proposed as a biomarker for successful …
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November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
First timer at #SANS2025
Will certainly be back!
April 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM