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Posts by Sam McDougle

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Excited for @ncmsociety.bsky.social in ~3 weeks, in Kobe Japan! Here is a preview of my labs' posters this year:

#NCMKobe

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Double act with @actlab.bsky.social at Cinet in Osaka. Cerebellum and Cognition. Doing paired talks is certainly good for a lively discussion…

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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science, AI & the Mind

Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

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We're hiring a postdoc in the Cognitive-Motor Learning Lab, directed by Dr. Aaron L Wong! If you want to study how people monitor their performance during skilled tool-use actions, & how this error awareness is disrupted after stroke, then this position may be a good fit.

https://ow.ly/1h2a50YIaWy

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The Sunny Act would allow apartment dwellers, whether renters or homeowners, to use easy-to-install and affordable solar panels: gothamist.visitlink.me/cF0lVc

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Sam Wang, Politician-in-Training The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals—and Trump voters?

Dog walks and people on the street: a New Yorker writer sees what it's like for a scientist to run for office.

New: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Spatial and semantic memory reorganize a hippocampal long-axis gradient | PNAS The hippocampus supports episodic memory by binding spatial and semantic information, yet how this information is simultaneously organized along it...

My first paper with @jkragel.bsky.social and Joel Voss came out yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! It’s real! :D

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Beg to differ. Journey is a schlep. Destination? now that’s the good stuff

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Excited for @ncmsociety.bsky.social in ~3 weeks, in Kobe Japan! Here is a preview of my labs' posters this year:

#NCMKobe

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Leo chatting w Amy Goodman :) @democracynow.org

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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...

New Unsolved Mystery, by Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social and Samuel D. McDougle @actlab.bsky.social, published this week in PLOS Biology about the contributions of the cerebellum to cognitive function: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Title: Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work Locat...

The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j

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🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social

We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked

What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective

We call it the digital sphinx

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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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…

Why is the #cerebellum (known for coordinating motor functions) also engaged in #cognition? @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @actlab.bsky.social investigate the problems that have made it so difficult to answer this question and outline strategies to make progress. 🧪 #NeuroSky

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out today, enjoyed writing this w/ @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social !

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Applications are now open for WTI's Graduate Certificate in Brains, Minds, and Machines!

Open to first-year Yale PhD students. Learn more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/graduate-certificate

📅 Deadline: April 16, 2026
🚀 Cohort begins Fall 2026

#KnowTogether

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The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

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Integration of memory and sensory information in skilled sequence production Sequential movements rely on two information sources: external sensory cues and internal memory representations. Although often both sources jointly drive sequential behavior, previous research has pr...

Now out in Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

How are motor memories and sensory information combined when you are playing the piano? Congrats to Amin and Medha!
I know having a paper out may seem small and insignificant against all that happens in the world right now!

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new haven folks, this is tomorrow! -->

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Congratulations @actlab.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for his #CNS2026 award talk, about generalized prediction errors in the human cerebellum a d the motor system, with an intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social

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@annnyc100.bsky.social

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My mom at Yale circa 1971 next to Erik Erikson. Huey P Newton is at the table too

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The Journal of Neuroscience: 46 (8)

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

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