Gene Brewer
@RealGeneBrewer
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New preprint out together with @m_heilb We find that a stimulus' representational magnitude—the L2 norm of its DNN representation—predicts intrinsic memorability not just for images, but for words too.
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Friends don't let friends sit through 1000 trials to test the task works*.... Did you know you can simulate responses in PsychoPy? Install the PsychoPy "Monkeys" plugin and have a play! *Actually this is exactly what friends do 😅 - looking at you psychophysics people...
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After a couple of years in the making, we are thrilled to launch the new home for #EEGManyLabs:
The #EEGManyLabs website is now live: https://t.co/DNwiTBBQnR A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.
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In Georgia, there was a monument that gave instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event. The monument also functioned as a compass, calendar, and clock. It was destroyed in 2022 in a bombing from a vandal.
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New paper with @RealGeneBrewer out in Memory & Cognition! We show that people judge remembered information as more important than forgotten information, suggesting that memory retrievability shapes perceived value. Read more ⬇️
link.springer.com
Memory & Cognition - People frequently rely on subjective assessments of importance to navigate daily decisions, yet the psychological underpinnings of these judgments are not fully understood....
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🚨 New article 🚨 How to measure semantic #networks of individuals reliably? Excited to share this article, led by @samuelaeschbach, Based on simulations, we provide recommendations on designing and interpreting behavioral studies. Article: https://t.co/ghSOL9Q4MX
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I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see paper, thread https://t.co/8bdB2pXxQa
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New Mexico State Psychology is hiring in social / quantitative this year. Official job ad coming soon. NMSU is an R1 Carnegie High Research Activity Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). This will be our 4th new hire since I arrived here in 2022. Please RT
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Thinking about adding eye tracking to your #EEG studies? Let us show you WHY, HOW it works, and WHAT you need to get started. https://t.co/WYhnFPFv6z ...powered by Brain Products and @Tobii technology! Interested in more? Subscribe here: https://t.co/wtY2IrSxGv
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Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work. https://t.co/ZFFW6qACls
cell.com
Navigating the environment involves engaging with multiple objects, each activating specific neuronal populations. When objects appear together, these populations compete. Classical attention...
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The complexity of the human brain and its functions in a neat infographic map [zoomable version: https://t.co/4KyqZPbJ23]
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To my surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see our earlier tweet. @mrccbu #memory #ptsd
https://t.co/vcIeO4imgY
How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with S. Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia integrating 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this function. @mrccbu
https://t.co/1UlVmDrNiI
#memory #ptsd @PsychToday @Psychonomic_Soc
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👁️🎥 New tutorial! Trying to make sense of HDF5 files from your eyetracking experiments? This short video walks you through inspecting, extracting, and visualizing your data. ▶️ Watch: https://t.co/7xv54wfznc
#EyeTracking #HDF5 #PsychoPy #Neuroscience #DataAnalysis
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🎯 Want to add eye tracking to your #PsychoPy experiment with zero coding? 👁️ This beginner-friendly tutorial uses MouseGaze to simulate tracking + covers ROIs, calibration, plugins & more! 📺 Watch now: https://t.co/xQBAtGjUxb
#OpenScience #EyeTracking
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Alexis Torres has written an excellent review, now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews on "The Role of the LC-NE System in Attention: From Cells, to Systems, to Sensory-Motor Control" (w/ me and @RealGeneBrewer). check it out! https://t.co/J3k61CVUle
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We’re grateful to everyone who contributes to the forum. Following our recent request for input on GazePoint, we got some helpful responses and we’re happy to share that it’s now working! 🙌 https://t.co/7cSnERisWb
discourse.psychopy.org
Hi @Becca The program is now recognizing the eyetracker, calibration and validation routines are working as well. I added these components into one of my experiments with recording. I have been able...
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