These findings echo the debate in adult research raised by Rey-Mermet et al. (2018), suggesting that results based on a single inhibition paradigm cannot be generalised to other paradigms.
We found no support for a unitary inhibition construct. Instead, the stop-signal task (SST) was related to symbolic arithmetic in both 5- and 7-year-olds. In contrast, the flanker task was related to non-symbolic maths, but only in 7-year-olds.
๐ก๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ถ๐ป๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐๐ธ๐ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐!
We investigated task-specific links to arithmetic to understand inconsistencies in the literature, now published open-access in Child Development:
doi.org/10.1093/chid...
A great collaboration with @sixtine-o.bsky.social and Andrรฉ Knops!
When people use LLMs for medical diagnosis accuracy is below 50%. Strong case against automated benchmarks of LLM โability.โ
If your uncle canโt use it to diagnose a migraine, it canโt diagnose a migraine. A doctor could, cause she understands what questions to ask.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Again, I'm looking for a lab research coordinator to work on the developmental cognitive neuroscience of numeracy in preschoolers. Please pass on to those that might be interested publish.illinois.edu/danielchyde/...
If you think concerns about replicability started in the 2010's, and you don't know this was just a repetition of exactly the same concerns from the 1960's, you are failing to learn from history of science. Dig in: rips-irsp.com/articles/10.... and rips-irsp.com/articles/10....
Comparison of Covid vs flu in the experimental model:
Only Covid showed persistent brain inflammation
Repair of lung tissue impaired with Covid vs flu
www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
40,000-year-old proto-writing in Germany www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@attentionlab.bsky.social identified (what look like) #AI bots in an online response-time task (Posner cuing). Give-aways are normally distributed RTs and lack of serial-dependence effects. Pretty troublng. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New research: AI models tend to reflect the political ideologies of their creators
Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. Thatโs why I chose a career in academia.
Many living people carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA, remnants of ancient interbreeding events, with uneven distribution across chromosomes. New work by @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social lab suggests patterns are most consistent with Neanderthal contribution to human populations being highly male biased.๐งช
Registration of our BIG experimental psychology TeaP 2026 @teap2026.bsky.social conference in Tuebingen is open
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A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here you can find the accepted manuscript. We outline how domain-general aspects contribute to carry & borrow effect, how they are shaped by individual differences and heterogeneity of math capabilities and suggest an inverse relation of borrow & carry effects.
www.psycharchives.org/en/item/aa15...
โWhile it may not prevent infection, early data from the UK confirms the current seasonal influenza vaccine lowers the risk of severe health outcomes from A(H3N2) influenza virus. Vaccination remains the single most important preventive step to avoid severe health outcomes.โ
Positive trend between monolingualism and accelerated ageing.
Negative trend between per capita GDP and accelerated ageing.
A recent study purports to have found that multilingualism protects against accelerated ageing. I've taken a closer look at it, and it doesn't look good.
New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments"
janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...
๐ Launched! Hereโs our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally:
www.uwo.ca/research/can...
Two world maps showing data on life expectancy, one map for the year 1940 and one for 2023. Data sources include Riley (2005), Zijdeman et al (2015), Human Mortality Database (2025), and the UN World Population Prospects (2024). The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data
๐ง New feature: you can now view two maps showing different years side by side!
A useful way to look at change over time for an indicator is to view two maps showing different years side by side.
Very happy to have received a replication grant from NWO! We will be reproducing power analyses of large scale replication projects, to learn how to improve power analyses, and increase quality control in large team Science projects! www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
It reminds me of the question 'who will replicate the replicators?' that people used to ask during the replication crisis. Turns out the answer is: the replicators themselves, after they have gained a decade of expertise on a topic :)
Our paper on the โ๏ธ "summer slide" ๐ is out now @pnas.org!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are โก๏ธ 7x bigger! โฌ
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#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
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"Our analyses highlight that the United States and other English-speaking countries are not the most individualist cultures in the world...Instead, Northwest European countries rank highest on measures of individualism."
New work by @pakaliyski.bsky.social et al.
dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp...
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๐ฃ CFP: Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines
How does AI affect K-12 math learning/teaching?
We want chapters linking psych โ๏ธ educationโcognition, pedagogy, equity, neuro, games, tutors+.
EOI due Jan 15, 2026
See the full call here: bit.ly/3V5Rwtl
#AIinEducation #MathEd
The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) ยซPsychological Data Management and -Stewardshipยป
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
#psychjobs
Tรผbingen AI Research Building, where the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning" is based.
๐ขWeโre hiring: W3-Professorship in Machine Learning in Physics @unituebingen.bsky.social! What weโre looking for: Established research profile in a core area of #physics (condensedmatter, quantum or theoretical particle physics), strong track record in research questions related to #ML and/or #AI.
When your PI presents your work
The mood-enhancing benefits of caffeine are strongest right after waking up
Enhanced understanding of the biologic basis for ME/CFS
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
