I'm very excited to announce that I've been selected as the recipient of the IAEA 2026 Mid-Career Award. Thanks so much to the IAEA Awards committee for this honor, and congrats to the other winners!
Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models.
A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐
Information transfer between the brain's hemispheres is not passive process. It is an active process under top-down influence.
Interhemispheric transfer of sensory and working memory information is dictated by behavioral strategy
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#neuroscience
How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?
Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory.
Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
out today, enjoyed writing this w/ @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social !
Picture of Alex Martin, National Institute of Mental Health
The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw
New lab paper! We built a new computational model that explains several disparate observations about the conditions that promote (or hinder) associative learning. Main finding is that different kinds of experience (blocked, interleaved) have opposing effect at high vs low memory capacity. 🧵 below!
Can AI-generated art improve well-being?🎨🧠
Using our #Enobio, researchers found increased pleasure and excitement, with EEG changes in gamma power and frontal alpha asymmetry linked to emotional responses.
Full study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#EEG #Neuroaesthetics #MentalHealth
Follow up on the genetics of chills from art and poetry. This time, including chills from music too 🧵 ⬇️
🧬 Is beauty in the eye of the beholder or the object itself?
Join us on Thursday, March 5 for a fascinating talk by Dr. Edward Vessel @edwardvessel.bsky.social on the "interactionist approach to the neuroscience of aesthetics"!
Thanks to @alenedawson.bsky.social for this great piece integrating findings from the scientific study of aesthetics, including work from my lab.
www.templeton.org/news/how-bea...
Reminder: Apply or Nominate someone for the 2026 SfNC Awards! Deadline - Feb. 1st ⏰
SfNC is proud to offer three annual awards recognizing outstanding contributions to creativity research. Winners receive a cash prize and are invited to present their work.
Details here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards
Call for 2026 Mid-Career Award, deadline March 31, with a black and gold beam photo background and the Psychonomic Society logo.
The Psychonomic Society is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Mid-Career Award, which recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology and are currently in the middle of their careers. The deadline is March 31. Submit today: buff.ly/Pct3kUM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
hey scientists, have you seen a cool paper recently that didn't get enough attention? let me know! I'm always looking for new studies to cover and would love to hear from you👇
It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
Last chance! Tonight is the submission deadline for talks/posters for IAEA2026 in Jena, Germany!
iaea-jena2026.org
IAEA members - nominate deserving colleagues for awards!
Fechner Award: lifetime contribution
Baumgarten Award: within 10yr after PhD
Washburn Award: mid-career scientist.
IAEA members submit noms (incl 2 support letters) to b.calvo@city.ac.uk w/ subject "IAEA nomination."
Neural insights into observational drawing: A longitudinal resting state functional connectivity study using 7 t MRI
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41273827/
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Submissions are now open!
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
Submissions are now open!
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
iaea-jena2026.org
I had a lovely conversation with @magdakacz2025.bsky.social as part of her "Dancing into Brain Health" podcast last week. You can listen to it here: open.spotify.com/episode/1sMW...
Thanks Magda!
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
📣 New Paper Alert!
My PhD student Hannah Ovadia and I wrote a concise update on “The Role of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in Aesthetic Appeal” to synthesize evidence, highlight issues, and most importantly, consider theoretical alternatives.
Free access:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lz-h8MqMi...
So I'm now feeling my first direct effect of the shutdown. CUNY Research Foundation can't set up payroll for my new Research Assistant, who is being paid off a federal grant. Sigh.
Yesterday I heard and saw what looked like a hawk over City College. Telltale scream of a large bird of prey. I wonder if it’s nesting atop a campus building.
