The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs
We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fantastic resource of German sentences to study predictive processes! Thank you @esterner.bsky.social & @franziskaknolle.bsky.social
Scott Marek
Helen Blank
Hayoung Song
I am so proud of the amazing work by @esterner.bsky.social!🤩
This database is fantastic to extract validated and linguistically described sentence stimuli! We even have downloadable recordings of the stimuli!
‼️It’s a great resource when you’d like to design a German language paradigm! Enjoy!!😊
Transition dynamics of external and internal attention across on-task and off-task states
Perspective by Sam Verschooren, Martin J. Dahl, Mariam Aly & Matthias Mittner
go.nature.com/43avM3v
#cogpsy #psychscisky
New preprint from down under:
Can acute TMS effects on dynamic brain states predict subsequent symptom change during treatment for depression?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#restinstateEEG #TMS #Depression #HMM #longitudinal
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.)
yalereview.org/article/mela...
A naturally occurring Yin and Yang! ☯️ A small reminder that tolerance may show up in unexpected places, even in these chaotic days!
🚨 Our database is published in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
with Maximilian Stadler and @franziskaknolle.bsky.social
If you plan on working with German speech stimuli, check out our osf for auditory stimuli and our online tool for selecting sentence material 🪄
So excited to be attending #PUG2026!
The KnolleLab will be presenting some great new data on neurocognitive alterations in psychosis spectrum. Check out the work by @esterner.bsky.social, @mirilangy.bsky.social, @prithasen.bsky.social, @onuricin.bsky.social, Bruna, Zach, Zlata and Maryia 🧠💡
Nature Reviews Psychology
Franziska Knolle
Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
Prediction is a core feature of language, which is widely studied across research domains. The Munich Sentence (MuSe) database enhances reproducibility by providing sentence completion norms for 619 G...
Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15)
The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social!
Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n
Melanie Mitchell
How can 🍪 help us understand anhedonia?
What started as a small project is now (> 2 years after the preprint, with revision deadlines landing exactly during my move from Tübingen to Bonn and even during a monastery-based PhD retreat) finally out in Cell Rep Med
🔽🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Excited to share the Munich Sentence Database (MuSe)!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
💬 619 German sentences
📊 Cloze probabilities & entropy estimated from up to 232 participants
👫 Demographic + subclinical data
🎧 Professionally recorded audio material
🪄 Open access scripts and interactive online tool
Schulz et al. show that anhedonia in depression, as measured by a scale often equated
with loss of pleasure, reflects reduced anticipation of food rewards rather than impaired
enjoyment itself. Linkin...
