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Happy to officially join Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences at Osaka University as a Guest Associate Professor from today! #neuroskyence #psychpsysky #compneurosky

Discuss with us the past, present, and future of scientific reform during #SIPS2025!

Join us for the exciting Keynote Panel with @simine.com-BSky @eikofried.bsky.social @fidlerfm.bsky.social @syeducation.bsky.social and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers.

Register here buff.ly/WUIXiqK
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SIPS 2025 – June 25-27, 2025 The programs for online SIPS (May 21-22, link) and in-person SIPS (June 25-27 in Budapest, link) are now online!

#SIPS2025 is happening in Budapest in less than a month!

The conference program is full of exciting talks, workshops, hackathons, unconferences, and more!

There is still time to register!
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Photos of the two scale options, Likert vs VAS

Should you use Likert or VAS for EMA research?

In a new paper led by @jmbh.bsky.social & Alberto Jover, we assigned n~160 in a 2 week study to either
📏1-7 Likert or
🎚️1-100 Visual Analogue Scale
and compared results using Bayesian multilevel models.

Brief thread with results.🧵

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After careful consideration, the FDA advisory comission voted today 9:2 that MDMA has *not* been shown to be effective for treating PTSD, given massive concerns around validity threats in this literature.
They also voted 10:1 that MDMA benefits do *not* outweigh harms.

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Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure - Nature Human Behaviour Schmid et al. examine how humans perceive material classes from image structure produced by surface reflectance properties.

Excited to share my paper with K.Doerscher & P.Barla @NatHumBehav!

By varying the physical properties of (rendered photorealistic) objects, we show that image structure produced by specular reflections drives visual perception of material category!

doi.org/10.1038/s415... #PsychPsySky #CogSci 🧠🟦 🧪

Re-expression of CA1 and entorhinal activity patterns preserves temporal context memory at long time... How hippocampal area CA1 and the entorhinal cortex preserve temporal memories over long timescales is not known. Here, the authors show using 7T fMRI, that temporal context memory for scene images is ...

New paper by Zou et al. using the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) to show that activity reinstatement in entorhinal cortex & CA1 predicts how well people remember when stimuli were first encountered (over months!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements - Nature Neuroscience In primates, activity in the visual cortex is not driven by spontaneous body movements. These results confirm the functional specialization of primate visual processing, in contrast with findings in m...

Extremely interesting paper by Talluri et al. testing whether spontaneous behaviors are reflected in V1 activity in primates! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spoiler: Changes in the retinal image explain most of it. Difference to rodents? #neuroscience #PsychPsySky #NeuroSkyence #Psychology