This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages. @ViktorKewenig .

Call for papers: .The editors at Communications Psychology, @NatureComms , and @SciReports invite manuscripts that highlight recent progress in Comparative Psychology.

Using naturalistic videos and free-text responses, this study compares latent and network models of social inference. Sparse networks capture richer, dynamic, and culturally diverse inference patterns than traditional low-dimensional structures.

Using computational modeling and EEG the study suggests several metacognitive states correlate with rational adjustments in behaviour; this might benefit steering behaviour towards optimality.

Large Language models are powerful prediction tools. Based on short aspirational essays written at age 11, these models predicted cognitive and non-cognitive traits up to the level of teacher assessments.

Facial muscle activity can shape how we recognize emotions. The study found that electrical stimulation of smiling muscles makes people more likely to see neutral faces as happy. @_Neurobaker @TheRealDrNgo @ThemisEfth.@artelse @MarcMehu @sebkorb .

Choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in prestimulus beta power modulations across distinct brain regions. @_Esra_Al @arnovillri @GrundMar @CarinaForster8 .

Using a sequential decision making task and cognitive modelling, this study shows that human decisions are best explained by a combination of repetition bias and goal directed reward-based behavior.

Computational modeling revealed that individuals with methamphetamine use disorder show reduced information-seeking and slower belief updating when trying to maximize long-term reward. @CarterMGoldman @toru1789taka @RyanSmith_LIBR .

Two experimental studies using the intergenerational sustainable dilemma game found that people made more sustainable choices when future beneficiaries were ingroup members, and less when they were outgroup members. @Hiro_IMADA .

Results from three studies that examined 1,918 U.S. adults show that financial exploitation risk is heightened by a complex interplay of sociodemographic, health, cognitive, and psychosocial vulnerabilities.

Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ultimately spoken. @adumbmoron @adeenflinker .

This study demonstrates that semantic priming can either increase or decrease perception of the Kanizsa illusion. The results support cognitive penetrability, demonstrating top-down influences on illusory perceptual experience. @Liad_Mudrik @amiroftals .

A latent class analysis of loneliness patterns over 18 years found consistent associations with physical and mental health-related quality of life in middle-aged and older women. @NetaHaGani @Kat_owen5 @pjclare @DrMelodyDing .

Attribution of distinct mental features to AI relate to trust in advice. Mental states related to intelligence positively predict trust; attributions of experience correlate negatively w/ advice-taking. @ClaraColombatto @birchlse .

Context is critical for learning yet poorly defined. Using extinction learning in pigeons, the paper shows that context is not given but learned. Small cues can trigger renewal, challenging classical views of context as passive background.@JuanJPeschken .

A computational model with a task-invariant and reliable Bayesian prior best fit choices in two different tasks where participants chose whether to actively avoid negative outcomes. This conceptualization aligns with a Bayesian view of helplessness.

Six Large Language Models outperformed humans on five ability emotional intelligence tests. ChatGPT-4 also successfully generated new test items for each test, with the AI-created versions showing psychometric properties similar to the originals.

Using explicit measures of subjective experience and a Bayesian ordinal modeling framework, this study shows that confidence reports in perceptual decisions are influenced by nonperceptual biases.

Choice bias - the tendency to prefer one option over another for no apparent reason - is stable for 22 months in perceptual tasks. While feedback can induce choice bias, its effect diminishes within weeks, suggesting a different mechanism. @LiorLebovich.