👀 looks like the core Stan folks are pretty bullish on Jax as the software of choice for fitting Bayesian models

bob-carpenter.github.io/dj-paper/

I love this and I think it applies in a way to cog psych and cog neuro as well

CNS 2026 - YouTube Keynote and award talks from the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), March 7-10, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Hot off the "reels"! The keynote talk by Peter Hagoort, as well as award talks by @theamygdaloid.bsky.social, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @actlab.bsky.social
All up on our YouTube channel now! Check them out:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#CNS2026 #neuroscience

Let's gooooooo!

Interested in learning how to process raw fMRI data? Join us April 21–23 for an intensive AFNI Bootcamp taught by instructors from the NIH. The course covers everything from preprocessing to data analysis.

For information & to register, visit:
https://persichetti-lab.github.io/afni-bootcamp-philly/

How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions? The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks...

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution....

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

PhD researcher for the FWO research project: MoCo: Motor Complexity and Aging PhD researcher for the FWO research project: MoCo: Motor Complexity and Aging

I am currently recruiting a PhD student to work on our "Motor complexity and aging" project funded by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

New CNS Mentorship Program Now Open New mentorship program for CNS!

ICYMI at #CNS2026, we have a new mentorship program! Learn more and sign up NOW to be a mentee or mentor:
www.cogneurosociety.org/new-cns-ment...
#neuroscience

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

From Capture to Control: Initial Capture Increases Learned Suppression - Yue Zhang, Nicholas Gaspelin, 2026 Salient stimuli have the potential to distract us from our immediate goals. Much research has therefore aimed to understand how we learn to use attention to res...

Excited to see this work out! We show that attention can rapidly learn to ignore salient distractions within 1-2 exposures. Interestingly, this learned suppression is highly contingent on an initial instance of capture!

More to come!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@yuezhang-mu.bsky.social

Home This virtual workshop teaches students basic principles of computer programming for psychology and neuroscience. Specific emphasis is given on the skills needed to analyze data from cognitive tasks us...

Want to learn R? 📊 Join our NSF-funded "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience Workshop"! This virtual workshop is completely free and teaches junior scientists the basics of coding for data analysis.

Apply by May 15th!
rworkshop.missouri.edu

#RStats #Psychology #Neuroscience

Really excited to get stared on this project!

We are also looking for a postdoc to help with this project - the official job ad is coming soon, but please reach out in the meanwhile if interested! You'll get to do some behavioral testing and neuroimaging in people with stroke

I love this idea! Have to give it a read

Sabbatical is aging me quickly 😅

Pet peeve: People saying out loud, "the delta between X and Y". Delta is the symbol used for a difference as shorthand notation. If you're speaking just say "the difference" or "the change"!

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

Where lies the true value of our research? In data from experiments specifically designed to answer careful hypotheses. Forget about large scale and boring datasets that everybody can analyse and produce thousands of silly papers with. The future is in original datasets that LLMs can't produce.

New paper from the lab now out online! @changrun-huang.bsky.social asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons why. Enjoy!

I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:

jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po...

Lab website: wessellab.org

Very proud that this is finally out!

Come for the new auditory illusion, stay for the brain imaging and speech analysis…..

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

gradient.horse

The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

Misspecified models create the appearance of adaptive control during value-based choice - Communications Psychology In a new computational analysis of previous work, this study shows that a control-free mechanism better accounts for value-based decisions than an account that assumes top-down control invigorating th...

Final paper of my PhD 🤗

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.

However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌

Applications due: Feb. 26
Start date: flexible, as early as June
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#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Applications for #UMich #Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend are in 2 days! If you are thinking about applying to psychology PhD programs in the future this may be for you! The application is short, but the benefits are big
lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/

@uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social

Excited to share Jongmin Lee’s discovery of abstract codes guiding prospective working memory!
Thread below.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

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Attention all graduate students and postdocs! The Psychonomic Society's Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee wants to hear from you. Share your thoughts and experiences through a quick survey—your input makes a difference! The survey closes on February 15. buff.ly/mGwHDGB

Jobs | City University of New York

I'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost!

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...