Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome!
Visit: ducog.cecog.eu
Late-breaking abstract submission until 20 March! Our amazing keynote speakers are Laura Bringmann (U Groningen), Judith Homberg (Radboud U), Stephan Lewandowsky (U Bristol), Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin), and Katalin Oláh (Eötvös Loránd U). Join us in Dubrovnik, and spread the word!
I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...
Friends in Budapest, check out these great talks next week :)
A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Machinery of Misbelief
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Bertalan Polner
Bertalan Polner
Bertalan Polner
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
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A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome!
Visit: ducog.cecog.eu
Carl T. Bergstrom
Marcelo Mattar
Awais Aftab
Really looking forward to a visit to Budapest next week, to give a couple talks. If you're around, come along and say hi! 😊 (Thanks to @mvargam.bsky.social for the invitation!)
