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We are EXTREMELY stoked that the Cognitive Control Collaborative is adding a sixth lab this year, as Debbie Yee will join us as a new Asst Prof in the UI Psych department!

Great times ahead, can't wait!!!

Now I'm imagining a bunch of Polish teenagers saying "This party is a real pierogi-fest" to each other, though admittedly I'm still working through what exactly they're complaining about in this hypothetical scenario

Here's an updated version of this paper.

Unrelatedly if anyone knows how I can tweak my OS to explode my computer if I ever start a word document with the words "The limitations of SSRT..." please send me a fax.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Completely agree, though I get the sentiment. You have some of the most unappealing people on the planet getting unfathomably rich by hyping their product as the solution to every single problem in the world. Sifting through this unprecedented hype-cycle to focus on the actual, real utility is hard.

We clearly need to do both, as far as training goes.
Ignoring these models is like ignoring R or FSL.
But it will remain crucial to teach students, in-depth, the exact, tedious, 'manual' steps still.
Being able to 'get a result' without knowing exactly what you're doing is a recipe for disaster IMO

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Human Gaze Behaviors Track Abstract Stimulus Categories Abstract. Categorization, or the ability to group stimuli according to behavioral relevance, is a cornerstone of abstract cognition. Neurophysiological studies in nonhuman primates have revealed that ...

Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social.

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Transient frontal spectral events from EEG predict antidepressant response to sertraline in depression Resting-state scalp electroencephalography (EEG) is a promising method for predicting patient outcomes of antidepressant treatments. Machine-learning-based EEG analysis of averaged power features (APF...

Slight but exciting departure from typical projects for me: I’m happy to share our paper finding that frontal beta event characteristics predict antidepressant response to sertraline (SSRI) has been accepted at J Psychiatric Research! 1/

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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What a good idea :)

Final version now in press at Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience! Congratulations to Rachel for her hard work on this ☺️🧠⚡
trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...

kinda like what you're saying in the discussion for the current paper apparently, haha.
I wonder whether one can test the first part of what I said in your exp 4 using rsa decoding of eeg.

I'm looking forward to the review. Not knowing much about precueing, my first-glance intuition is that proactive control settings may be integrated into the task set representation, and thus switching them trial-to-trial is costly. Therefore people may just ignore the cue unless they REALLY need it

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!

Adjustments to Proactive Motor Inhibition without Effector-Specific Foreknowledge Are Reflected in a Bilateral Upregulation of Sensorimotor β-Burst Rates Abstract. Classic work using the stop-signal task has shown that humans can use inhibitory control to cancel already initiated movements. Subsequent work revealed that inhibitory control can be proact...

That's interesting! Cheol found a few years ago that to engage proactive inhibition during stopping, Pp upregulate sensorimotor β the entire block and steadily keep it elevated even between trials.
Probably less effortful than changing control settings on every trial. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Sent :)

It's bananas. Like I said, I suggested 7 reviewers, many of whom should disagree w this paper (b/c they do this work). In fact, one of them told me so before (but not why). Then someone indicates COI and they send me an email essentially accusing me of being unethical and/or dumb. Deeply unserious.

That section looks great! Let me take a closer look at work tomorrow and I may send it over right then. Thanks for the heads up!

It’s out!

Yeah I was actually thinking of the Forum format when I started writing. But then it became ~3500 words, 80-100 (?) references and a figure (that took me more time than the writing)...
I don't know if that's still appropriate or doable in the forum format

Yes, that is another very good point.
SSRT itself has major issues in general, but that's another paper for another day entirely ;)

Birte Forstmann has already done some stuff in the latter regard, as usual. See recent Sebastian et al. paper with Birte and Dora cited in my paper. Sebastian work is always very good and Birte F. work is obviously always at the absolute cutting edge. I imagine they're already working on something.

I don't know much about fNIRS but doesn't it also measure hemodynamic activity? Probably subject to same temporal smearing if so.
I make some suggestions in the paper. EEG decoding or Huster's EMG approach paired with fMRI would be good. Or better comp/behav models of stopping a la Matzke perhaps.

Would have been nice to get some feedback and criticism from the people who do this work. But alas.

(Needless to say I'm done reviewing for those jokesters.)

I don't know what to do with this, it's probably gonna just be a forever-preprint. I submitted it to @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, but since one of the SEVEN reviewers I proposed (including everyone whose work I use to illustrate the shortcomings) said that they have a COI, they desk-rejected it.

Read if you're curious why 25+ years after some of the most-cited work in cogneuro history, fundamental Qs still remain unresolved, why new fMRI work often produces seemingly confusing results, or why contrasts that are vital to understand response inhibition are almost never found in fMRI research.

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...

Trying to bring myself up-to-date on beta burst mechanisms and methods and I don't even have enough time catch up with all that @danclab.bsky.social alone have been doing...

The Frohlich brain stim stuff is always so sick dude

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.
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