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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 19d

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 26d

Hey @mindfuldem.bsky.social you’ve tagged the wrong person

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Sep 3

Speech-in-noise perception gets better as listeners adapt to environment/room reverberation statistics! Another W for statistical learning. 😁

New paper from folks in our lab (led by Heivet Hernandez-Perez): elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Listening to the room: disrupting activity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs learning of room acoustics in human listeners

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@AAllenSport @aallensport.arseblog.com · Aug 23

Eze. Next.

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ooh thanks, I haven’t read those other two! I look forward to reading them today instead of doing the research I’m paid for 😁

Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Jun 17

Cool to see this! I only came across some of the single-trial memory stuff (e.g. Standing et al) recently, so this is timely for me!

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Jun 14

Great article Lewis, love to read you calling out the fascism going on in the US!

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Jun 14

You’re related to Petey? Nice, I’ve liked his music for a couple years now!

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Matthias Guggenmos @mguggenmos.bsky.social · Jun 4

We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG.

More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025

Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · May 20

It’s all about attention in June's 50th anniversary articles tinyurl.com/3ywt8zec!

‪@chris-olivers.bsky.social‬
‪@sauter.bsky.social‬

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Manikya Alister @manikyaalister.bsky.social · May 5

Happy to share some new theoretical work with @andyperfors.bsky.social
that will appear at CogSci this year! We argue (and demonstrate through simulations) that people can determine how much to trust other agents by thinking about how those agents have acquired their knowledge. 1/3

Figure showing an overview of the framework argued in the paper. People decide how much they can trust other agents by taking into account 1) features that indicate how the agents acquired their knowledge (their search process); 2) how many other agents agree, and what the features of those agents are; and 3) indications that reflect how knowable the topic is or how easy the space is to search.

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Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · May 3

Australian election called against Dutton and the Coalition. I almost want to cry a little - didn't realise how badly I needed this to happen. There was a lot at stake in this election but I know a lot of marginalised people are breathing a sigh of relief.

#auspol

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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · Apr 19

In May, our 50th Anniversary series features an invited review from Valenza et al, who trace the legacy of their seminal 1996 article, "Face preference at birth” and a readers’ perspective on perception of relations.
tinyurl.com/k2jmtbhw

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

Tagging journal @jephpp.bsky.social!

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

Two of the reviewers were fantastic - insightful yet fair. Thank you! 10/10 (end of thread but also me rating reviewers)

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

Takeaways: musicians better in SJ tasks (but may be response bias) yet show > multisensory integration in a more objective RT task (but may be just better sustained attention, motivation, etc.). SJs show rapid recalibration but RTs don't, so RR probs not due to early sensory latency changes 9/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

Multisensory gain (redundant target effect; RTE) across RT distribution is well predicted by Raab's (1962) race model, except when considering just the fastest RTs 8/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

Multisensory integration (race model violations in simple RT task) do NOT correlate with simultaneity perception (Fig. 7). Yet the difference between unimodal auditory and visual RTs STRONGLY predicts the SOA of largest multisensory gain 7/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

We get nice/sexy modality shift effects (previous trial modality affects simple RT on current trial). Paper has more details about novel modality shift effect analyses 6/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

Yet simple RTs do not show such rapid recalibration (see paper for race model analysis showing same thing) 5/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

Simultaneity judgements (SJs) are recalibrated according to the modality order of the previous stimulus 4/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

And yet, musicians exhibited greater multisensory gains for simple RTs 3/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

First, musicians were far less likely than non-musicians to report simultaneity between asynchronous flash-tone stimuli 2/10

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 19

⚠️New paper! If you like multisensory temporal perception, this one has HEAPS for you. We looked at simultaneity perception, simple RTs, race model inequality, serial dependence (recalibration), modality shift costs, musicians, and more! Findings summarised below 1/10

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · Mar 10

Cool! Must have been so satisfying to solve that mystery - I had a similar experience a few years ago but had to wade through Google search for it

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