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Dr Reshanne Reeder

@kerblooee.bsky.social

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Cognitive neuroscientist, mom, citizen of the world. Interested in mental imagery extremes and divergent perception. Got a cool theory. The "Ganzflicker Lady" https://reshannereeder.com

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · Feb 14

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

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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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 3d

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
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

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 3d

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!"

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

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 3d

And I appreciate you taking the time to hear my opinion, even if we may not agree!

Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 3d

If a tech puts in substantial labor like study design, as long as they read the paper and approve final draft, they should be an author. But "substantial labor", to me, *is* an intellectual contribution. If they just set up the eye tracker but didn't care about the study, then no. /5

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 3d

Which can lead to embarrassing situations like being an "accomplice" co-author on a fabricated study/retraction, which I think is preventable if only *substantial contributions* are "rewarded" with authorship. And finally...4/

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 3d

So IMO, intellectual contribution is not elitism, it's being sufficiently knowledgeable about the project to make an informed authorship decision. I also think it is unethical for big PIs to slap their names on all student projects regardless of their role in it, or just bc they run the lab...3/

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 3d

But I later learned the whole point of the study was to find a more powerful/reliable method of inducing amnesia, which effectively tortured (and often killed) the animals. I would feel guilty if my name was on that study now, but at the time, I was ignorant to what exactly they were doing...2/

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 3d

Intellectual contribution is important for authorship bc you have to at least know what you're putting your name on, and that could also be a technician who contributes to, e.g., study design. When I was an UG RA, I felt snubbed for not getting authorship on a rat study bc I trained all the rats..1/

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 4d

"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

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...

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 4d

"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.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4d

🌟 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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Core reasoning issues (first column), which we name after the relevant numbered section, are characterised using a plausible quote. In the second column are responses per row; also see the named section for further reading, context, and explanations.

See paper for full details: ** Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4d

🌟 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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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 6d

"Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in their training data and can be accomplished solely using natural language, limiting our understanding of their emergent sophisticated cognitive capacities." Oh hell nah I'm sorry, this is loony

Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 6d

There is some published research on this (and to my knowledge, more in the pipeline):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The role of visual imagery in story reading: Evidence from aphantasia

Aphantasia is a condition in which people are unable to experience visual imagery. Since visual imagery is thought to be key to language processing, w…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 6d

I agree, I've asked the reading question in interviews about imagery, but answers are not so straightforward, especially distinguishing aphant vs typical responses. Asking about autobiographical memories and faces of loved ones brings out big differences between aphant, typical & hyper for me.

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 6d

This is why it is important to follow up on single study reports! I have also found a connection between involuntary and voluntary imagery in my mental healthcare study (aphantasics are unlikely to experience sensory flashbacks in PTSD).

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 12d

This is my go-to blog post to share on this topic - thanks for all the work you do!

Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for the blog post! The problem is, we are teaching that there is an invisible threshold between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" use (you can use it for proofreading but not writing your essay), and if students don't cross it, genAI can be used "responsibly". I anticipate disaster with this.

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 12d

"I only use AI for proofreading / translating / brainstorming / learning about a topic. What's the big deal?"
^all the officially acceptable uses of genAI in my dept (for students)

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 13d

This I think is a great suggestion

Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 13d

I can't remember where I read about it, but it was proposed as an alternative to regular authorship in a blog post. I found the idea was "just to be controversial" though, and definitely more open to elitism than individual intellectual contribution (which btw I don't agree is inherently elitist).

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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 14d

Whoa!

Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 15d

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...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 15d

I don't know if I'm understanding the criticism - would your thought be to do away with individual authorship altogether and adopt, e.g., "institution authorship" in its place, as some propose?

Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 16d

Particularly like this part here:

Implicit measures typically impose impoverished and constrained communication formats, reducing expression of complex subjective experiences into binary button presses ... Indeed such dichotomy seem highly problematic in light of the growing body of work on intersectionality.

Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 16d

Ahem. Mental imagery (& imagery-critical) researchers should read this:

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

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