Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

I’m having a conversation with my mom about something I want for Christmas and a week later Santa gives it to me.

When will we pass privacy regulations

Yeah, probably. But the start was good: real people following real people from all these starter packs… Now there’s a bot invasion like on X

It's that time of year where I post this one

Yes, I have the same feeling! Probably it’s true

While Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US, here, it's just Thursday.

But it means that I'll bring in a cranberry-caramel tart for the lab, because it's tradition. And it's the Thanksgiving dessert of my childhood.

The role of the human hippocampus in decision-making under uncertainty - Nature Human Behaviour This study examines individuals with autoimmune limbic encephalitis, a condition that impairs the hippocampus, to understand how they evaluate rewards and efforts in uncertain scenarios compared to he...

Nature Human Behaviour

The role of the human hippocampus in decision-making under uncertainty
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Then yes, I totally agree with you. I just didn’t know the details

Isn’t it “we care a lot about our citizens who shouldn’t breaks legs and arms in winter”? I think this idea with heating elements is very nice from the point of view of urbanism. I would love to have such things where I live

a graph showing a drop in cognitive performance during the summer months in the ABCD Study dataset

☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl

#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
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Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Can human brain connectivity explain verbal working memory?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dopamine-mediated formation of a memory module in the nucleus accumbens for goal-directed navigation - Nature Neuroscience Jung et al. show that shelter experience boosts dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, generating a goal-location memory. Reactivating a neuronal ensemble developed from shelter experience enables...

Nature Neuroscience

Dopamine-mediated formation of a memory module in the nucleus accumbens for goal-directed navigation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Developing AI Like Raising Kids “In terms of the machine learning programs or robots that we have now, I basically think of them as being comparable to thermostats.”

How do you make a person?

@alisongopnik.bsky.social and Ted Chiang consider how child-rearing and care work can yield insights into Artificial Intelligence. www.publicbooks.org/developing-a...

❌ There is no "pain center" in the brain.

🧠 Rather, pain is a diffuse neurological process involving MANY brain sites, including PFC (attention), cerebral cortex (thoughts) + limbic system, critical parts of our emotion circuitry💥

📣 Pain is *both* physical and emotional ALWAYS 👏🏼
#MedSky #psyscisky

A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood Nature Reviews Psychology - Optimism declines across early childhood, but there is no theoretical account for why such changes occur. In this Perspective, Leonard and Sommerville discuss and...

New paper with the BRILLIANT and always amazing @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social! Developmental declines in optimism and their potential causes:

graphical abstract supporting the text of this post.

After class is the most accessed time! Ending early is inclusive and accessible way to engage with students. Well done :)
#HigherEd

perfect

Didn't see one for Neuroscience yet; allow me to oblige

"A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality"

This new preprint from @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @peterkok.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social is simply *stunning*.

Beautifully elegant design, cognitive modelling, and brain imaging. Total package. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈 🧪