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Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.
We have the vaccine, we have the means to distribute it. We need to redouble efforts to tackle the slow loss of confidence in vaccines.
No quick way to do this but we have the tools – it needs effort, outreach, listening to people’s concerns, answering questions, & working within communities. 8/8
…pls excuse missing colon before “the importance”…
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
Gradually, then suddenly: the precarious position of UK preclinical #neuroscience
Professor Mark Walton’s new opinion piece in @brain1878.bsky.social highlights the funding and workforce pressures facing UK preclinical neuroscience.
academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
#PreclinicalResearch
Over half of Britons say it would be a bad outcome if the assisted dying Bill runs out of time in the Lords.
Over a quarter of opponents agree.
The public don’t want the Bill blocked by delay.
Add your name to the petition urging the Government to intervene:
www.dignityindying.org.uk/petition
A bit old now, but great Registered Report by Maya Raza (not on here)
In a vague attempt to lighten mood (and possibly even with educational benefit), I have added a couple more cartoons about the tools of cognitive neuroscience (with brief explanations): www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h.... Thanks to @iancooketapia.bsky.social for prettifying.
Really important points…
Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?"
The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.
Important reminder that the relationship between functional connectivity and a trait is likely to be state-dependent, and hence it may be unwise to rely on resting state only
An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?
Want to help make replications easier to find, share, and credit? Join us in Germany for a hackathon to do just that. Applications now open ⬇️
Brilliant!
4.1 Topics covered: Experimental vs Field Designs, Multiple Regression, Correlated Predictors, Range effects, Measurement noise, Sequential Orthogonalisation (Type II vs Type III sum of squares)
4. (don't worry; stopping soon...) Statistical Power for Interactions: github.com/RikHenson/Po.... Is it true that interactions are always harder to detect than main effects? Not always... available as Rmd and HTML (no Python or Matlab yet)
3.1 Topics: Effect of SOA, Power Spectra, Filtering, HRF Models, Trial Order, Null Events, Correlated Predictors, Working Memory trials, State/Item effects, Single-trial estimation (LSA), Regularised LSA (Beta-Series Regression), LSS, Trial:Scan Variance, Trial:Scan Spatial Covariance (MVPA).
3. Efficient fMRI experiments: github.com/RikHenson/fM.... How to design an fMRI experiment, as a function of trial/HRF modelling, trial interval and trial order, that is efficient (sensitive) to a specific contrast (hypothesis), available as Matlab Livescript (or plain HTML; no Python or Rmd yet)
2.1 Topics: Multiple Regression versus Path Models, Mediation, Moderation, Structural Equation Models, Measurement Invariance, Longitudinal designs, Mixed Effects models, Practice effects, Attrition, Cross-Lagged Panel Models, Latent Curve Models, Parallel Process Models.
2. Relating Age, Brain and Cognition: github.com/RikHenson/Ag.... How to model cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between 3 or more variables (ABC), available as Rmd (or plain HTML; no Python or Matlab yet).
Trains are good for reminiscing. I forgot to congratulate @adamjcurtis.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva with no corrections. Only downside is that as his external, I felt both old and odd, examining an “academic grandchild” (via @aidanhorner.bsky.social)…
Oops - correction - just realised that speed varies with location (and # users, obvs!) - sorry Eurostar!
WiFi speed on Eurostar: 30 Mbps download and 5 upload…
WiFi speed on DB ICE train: 100 Mbps download and upload…
I like Stewart Lee’s story about being unable to buy a ticket for an near-empty bus he had boarded because you could only buy tickets online, but the bus was late, so according to the company’s “AI” system, the bus was not in fact there, but several miles ahead, so buying a ticket was not possible…
I agree with this sentiment for empirical papers, which generally benefit from stronger evidence, eg more replications across multiple experiments within paper. But I’m less sure new theoretical ideas need to be “slowed down”? (unless half-baked just to get a publication)
