Our new paper is out in Cognition! What determines whether confidence follows the classic "folded-X" pattern vs. the "double-increase" pattern? The answer lies in the type of stimulus manipulation. Big thanks to my advisor Doby @dobyrahnev.bsky.social and co-first author @herrickfung.bsky.social !
Yesterday, we finally got to celebrate the successful PhD defense of our PostDoc @maryamtohidi.bsky.social at a delicious Iranian restaurant😋
We are so proud of Dr Tohidimoghaddam, who continues her journey with us elucidating multi-attribute decision-making🧠 Stay tuned for her future contributions!
'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
Eliminating the Impossible
https://xkcd.com/3210/
'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3210
poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension
Compositional data (proportions that sum to 1) behave in ways standard models aren’t built for
I walk through why Dirichlet regression is often the right tool & what extra insight it gives using a real ex of eyetracking
#Dirichlet #r #brms #guide #eyetracking
open.substack.com/pub/mzlotean...
How do priors influence speech processing? Do they enhance expected signals or highlight the unexpected (prediction errors)? @fabianschneider.bsky.social' s work shows: It depends!
article cover page and abstract
New article in Cognitive Psychology with @thorstenpachur.bsky.social and Veronika Zilker: “How sampling strategies shape experience-based risky choice.”
We present a computational framework for information search and choice in decisions from experience. 1/4
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
Grüne vollziehen Kehrtwende bei der Homöopathie: Am ersten Tag des Grünen-Parteitags in Hannover wird es lebhaft: Ein Antrag wird angenommen, der die Finanzierung homöopathischer Leistungen durch gesetzliche Krankenkassen untersagen will. Eine historische Kehrtwende.
Science in 2025
Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢 The #TeaP2026 talk & poster submission deadline is approaching fast! ⏰ Don’t miss your chance – submit your contribution by November 16: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼
Foto von Paul Langerhans und Titel- und erste Seite seiner Doktorarbeit "Beiträge zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Bauchspeicheldrüse". Der Satz "Der einzige Zweck dieser Entstehungsgeschichte meiner Arbeit ist Motivierung und Entschuldigung ihres geringen Gehaltes." ist rot markiert.
Wir starten mit der ersten Seite der Doktorarbeit von Paul Langerhans, dem Entdecker der pankreatischen Inseln. Lief wohl alles nicht so rund und ich mag diesen Satz sehr: "Der einzige Zweck dieser Entstehungsgeschichte meiner Arbeit ist Motivierung und Entschuldigung ihres geringen Gehaltes."
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
Another good reason to kill this whole industry now. It’s going to fail anyway, we may as well do so while we still have a chance to restore the planet.
Kurzgesagt - in a nutshell explains perfectly why AI in such Context is really problematic.
Also John Oliver from Last week tonight did a really good video about AI Slop and how many think it's real.
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
Our new paper is out as a reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Congrats to @hashimsat.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators on this great team effort.
Special shout-out to @haukeren.bsky.social, who made this possible through his generous support 🙌
Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.
Glad to see my first-year project is out!
In two experiments, we manipulated multiple stimulus features in a perception task, yet their effects on confidence and accuracy fell into just two distinct behavioral patterns, offering a way to predict the effects of novel stimulus manipulations.
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⭐PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐, Please Share!! Use Reinforcement Learning and Computational Modelling to study how dis/misinformation affects us (with myself +Tali Sharot). Full funding for those eligible for UK home fees. Deadline 10th Nov. @queenmarycbb.bsky.social
If you’re in #Munich 🥨 and curious about decision-making, perception, and cognition through a translational lens, join us for a seminar I’m hosting on Oct 30 with three fantastic speakers: @jkesby.bsky.social (visiting from 🇦🇺), @miguelbengala.bsky.social, and @jacob-lab.bsky.social 🧠💡
you heard of running Doom on random gadgets but have you ever heard of…
“Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape”
bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
this explains how!
((the internet is healing 😌))
#IndieDev
Just back from this - I was the misfit invited speaker who knows nothing about psychology. It was really educational for me, expanded my view of theory construction problems in the human sciences.
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
"Learning to be confident: How agents learn confidence based on prediction errors"! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by @pierreledenmat.bsky.social
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
Unfortunately, for the variance on the probability scale, the speed up vanishes.
Thanks for the kind words.
Glad to see that people already account for this in some packages. Not sure whether it helps a lot, but using the direct computations instead of using numerical integration may still speed up things a bit (about 20 times on my machine)
