Our new paper is out.

Faster adult implicit probabilistic statistical learning following childhood adversity Abstract. According to deficit models, early life adversity disrupts normal development, leading to long-term emotional, behavioural and cognitive difficul

If childhood adversity is harmful, are its cognitive consequences always and only negative?

Maybe we need to question deficit models.

Greater childhood adversity was linked to faster implicit learning in our new study.

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

#neuroskyence

XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the BAPS: CALL FOR POSTERS AND ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the call for Oral Communications and Posters is now open. The submission deadline is April 22, 2026. For detailed information related to the submission process, please visit the SEPEX/BAPS conference website. You may access the guidelines here and the submission template here. Updates will be posted regularly on the…

XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the BAPS: CALL FOR POSTERS AND ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the call for Oral Communications and Posters is now open. The submission deadline is April 22, 2026. For detailed information related…

Applications Open for the Psychology PhD Program at Universidad del Atlántico Medio (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) Os remitimos información relativa a la apertura de candidaturas para el programa de doctorado de la Universidad del Atlántico Medio, en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ The Psychology PhD Program at Universidad del Atlántico Medio is currently accepting applications for PhD positions, including three fully funded scholarships.

Applications Open for the Psychology PhD Program at Universidad del Atlántico Medio (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)

Os remitimos información relativa a la apertura de candidaturas para el programa de doctorado de la Universidad del Atlántico Medio, en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. La Junta…

Our new paper is out: ADHD-like traits were linked to weaker inhibitory control, but that was only part of the story. We found that ADHD-like traits also changed the usual trade-off between inhibition and statistical learning.
#neuroskyence #medsky #ADHD

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why we randomize YouTube video by Darren Dahly

@statsepi.bsky.social has a nice way of explaining the need for randomization in experiments. Starts with giving a medicine to *one* person and how that would work if we could go back in time and also not give them the medicine www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSOj... (caveat: in a deterministic universe)

Another one bites the dust

vmPFC damage reduces mind-wandering, but not other classes of off-task thought Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is consistently engaged during mind-wandering, but its role in mind-wandering is still unclear. The present stu…

This paper interests me in part because vmPFC is also a region associated with cessation of #dreaming during #sleep in Mark Solms' lesion work (e.g. sci-hub.st/10.1017/S014...). IDK if these lesions are in precisely the same locations as Solms' patients though.

Transcranial electrical stimulation during wakeful rest can support early memory consolidation in arithmetic learning There is increasing evidence that brief periods of quiet wakeful rest immediately after learning facilitate memory consolidation. Similar to consolida…

These guys report memory enhancement after applying slow oscillation frequency tDCS during post-learning waking rest.

This follows on other evidence that some mechanisms of memory consolidation studied in the context of #sleep might also be present in waking rest.

#neuroskyence #psychscisky

implicit workshop Thursday May 7th (preceded by socialising evening May 6th) No registration needed. Lunch and coffee provided. Venue: Meeting House, University of Sussex. The campus can be accessed via Falmer railway ...

Interested in implicit learning, implicit cognition, and non-conscious processes? Join us at the 12th Implicit Learning Seminar on May 7, 2026 at the University of Sussex, near Brighton. sites.google.com/view/implici...

Effects of Ultra-short Offline States on Item-level Verbal Memory Abstract. Memory is consolidated during “offline” states of reduced attention to the external stimulus environment, including sleep and resting wakefulness. While consolidation is usually studied on a...

When it comes to memory, not all forms of wakefulness are created equal.

Our latest:

Different sources of the numerical comparison size effect - Memory & Cognition In symbolic number comparison tasks, the numerical distance and size effects are largely influenced by the statistical properties of the stimuli. Here, we tested whether nonsymbolic number comparison ...

In a number comparison task, the size effect is, in fact, at least three distinct size effects with three corresponding generators. See more details about the anatomy of the number comparison size effect at doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Also, common: they are both task-unrelated thoughts.

I used to think rumination was a subtype of mind wandering. Now I think it may be qualitatively different from other kinds of mind wandering. That’s an empirical question, and we plan to examine it in future work.

In our new preprint, we tested whether mind wandering is a general marker of psychopathology or something more specific.
Result: it correlates with many symptom dimensions; but only ADHD uniquely predicts it when shared variance is controlled.
#neuroskyence #medsky

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

Optimizing a design for correlation may be bad for a design for comparing groups or conditions. And the other way around. osf.io/mu896

New preprint:
We introduce an eye-tracking framework to capture, trial by trial, how expectations are formed and updated during probabilistic learning. The results suggest conservative, repetition-based updating rather than strongly error-driven learning. doi.org/10.64898/202...

#neuroskyence

What if the “contradictions” in statistical learning aren’t real—but artifacts of non–process-pure tasks (à la Jacoby)?
A different lens changes the story.
New preprint out:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

#neuroskyence

Frontal theta synchronization facilitates the updating of statistical regularities, evidenced by predictive eye movements Abstract. Frontal midline theta oscillations are key neural markers for learning, set-shifting, and adaptive behavior, signaling cognitive control and the

New paper just published in Cerebral Cortex 🧠

Frontal midline theta synchronization causally supports updating statistical regularities, improving adaptive prediction without boosting simple performance.

doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf346

@orspesthy.bsky.social
#neuroskyence

New article in Cognitive Science
Statistical learning does not stay stable across childhood. Longitudinal data reveal a gradual developmental decline and growing individual differences. Methodology matters:
No process-pure tasks. No shortcuts without longitudinal data.

doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism The rapid advances in the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have galvanised public and scientific debates over whether artificial systems m…

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊

Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness?
And if so, where do we start?

I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on.

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Our recent research on mind wandering is featured in Cerveau et Psycho, a French magazine on brain and cognition. Thanks, Thomas ;)

Article (FR): stm.cairn.info/magazine-cer...
#MindWandering #Neuroscience

@thomasandrillon.bsky.social

"Research will be shared exclusively outside traditional journals"

This is quite a statement!

It’s Time to Rethink the Academic Tenure Process Opinion | To fight the war on science, higher education needs to reimagine the most important career milestone for faculty.

This is a great piece by @cbo.bsky.social on the need to rethink tenure. undark.org/2025/09/11/o...

New preprint alert!

Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations

#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

Come join us at 15:30 for the Learning and Memory II symposium at the Psychonomic Conference in Ballroom D! I’ll be speaking about the developmental trajectory of statistical learning. See you there! #Psychonomics #PSynom25

Come by our posters today at 6:00 PM at the Psychonomic Conference! #psynom25
We’ll be presenting three posters on statistical learning — would love to see you there!
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @orspesthy.bsky.social @florahann.bsky.social

No sex differences in predictive processing Statistical learning, defined as the implicit extraction of environmental regularities, is recognized as a universal and evolutionarily conserved mechanism, and constitutes a fundamental aspect of pre...

Our new preprint is out!

Across 473 participants, we found no sex differences in implicit statistical learning — a core mechanism of predictive processing.

The predictive brain appears remarkably universal.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#neuroscience
#learning
#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence

New study
Our team shows that statistical learning & inhibitory control cooperate during behavior.

A flexible brain optimizes both automatic & controlled processes together - not either/or.

Preprint:Cooperative interaction between statistical learning and inhibitory control
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal

"Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software" | Clip of an interview with @anilseth.bsky.social and Michael Levin on Theories Of Everything

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZl...