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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jul 27

Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.

#Neuroskyence

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Functional Connectivity Heterogeneity and Consequences for Clinical and Cognitive Prediction

AbstractFunctional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional co...

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Aug 1

A deserving recognition for an incredible scientist and a great colleague. Congrats Nora! @noranewcombe.bsky.social

Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 31

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

Nora S. Newcombe and Robert Glushko stand together smiling on stage at CogSci 2025. Nora wears the Rumelhart Prize medal around her neck

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congrats Nora!

Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Jul 28

Super cool paper Ken and team!

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Jul 17

So excited that our work on children’s ability to discern real from AI-generated content received this recognition. We show that kids systematically misjudge some types of AI content as human, and that kids who use more technology in the home are worse at AI detection. Way to go Allison and team!

Children and Screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎉Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds Congress Committee Award for excellence in science — Destinee Ramos, Allison Langer, and Wendy Rote, PhD.

These recipients were awarded for their outstanding poster presentations at #MediaAndMinds!

#SocialMedia

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 8

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Jul 4

Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is great, and freely accessible!

Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Jul 1

Beyond honored! Credit to the amazing students and collaborators who I’ve had the incredible privilege to work beside along the way.

Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jul 1

PS is pleased to announce the 2025 Mid-Career Award recipients! These awards recognize scientists who have made excellent contributions to the field in the middle of their careers. bit.ly/4k7eH0k @mindimager @Jason Chein @R.Shayna Rosenbaum @sarahshomstein

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 29

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 26

Alert!!!!

“An Action Networks Model for Pain”

We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.

👉 thread below 🧵

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · Jun 18

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Jun 5

This new article by @aaronjfisher.bsky.social, @mindimager.bsky.social, et al. is important for cogneuro research b/c it discusses the common yet problematic assumption that inferences based on group averages are applicable to inherently intraindividual processes. (1/3)

Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience

Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · May 16

Exactly!

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · May 15

While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · May 15

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation?

This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change.

See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · Apr 25

Check if your university has signed. Write to your President if not.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Apr 23

Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · Apr 19

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

screenshot of semantic distance R package information

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Jason Chein @mindimager.bsky.social · Apr 12

Congrats Amy - some really great stuff in here!

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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thinking about fMRI study designs for brain-based prediction? Updated preprint!

Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Mar 26

Updated preprint for those who might be interested: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · Mar 22

The research grants canceled this week will stop treatments in rural communities, will stop the study of cures for conditions that affect all people, and will take away jobs from lower and middle class folks who live in “red” states. Period.

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NPR @npr.org · Mar 18

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.

Here are 4 ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Mar 14

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s

What should we make of this?

www.ft.com/content/a801...

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · Mar 12

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

www.forbes.com

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Rakoen Maertens @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social · Mar 11

|| New Publication (Nature Communications)

Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this

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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · Mar 10

Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press!

We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.

Ali Cohen @aliocohen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Current Directions in Psychological Science article entitled More Than Just a Phase: Adolescence as a Window Into How the Brain Generates Behavior

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