Sam McDougle

@annnyc100.bsky.social

My mom at Yale circa 1971 next to Erik Erikson. Huey P Newton is at the table too

The Journal of Neuroscience: 46 (8)

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:

The Deliberation Taboo

Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/

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We are SO excited for #CNS2026 in Vancouver in less than 2 weeks! If you want sneak previews of our award & keynote talks, check out our meeting blog:
www.cogneurosociety.org/cns-blog/
Conversations w/ @actlab.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social & more!
#scicomm #neuroscience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Out today from @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and our lab: cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
Exploring the relationship between win-switching behavior and metacognition.

Richer self-reported strategy buffers the link between win-switching and paranoia…

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces Nature - The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions

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Here is the preprint of @kjedlovszky.bsky.social work in the lab: osf.io/preprints/ps...: experiencing a volatile task (both social and non-social) increases social hallucinations of chasing in moving dots - filling in the mechanistic gaps of how volatility beliefs influence perception

Last few hours to get your submission for #NCMKobe26 in! Deadline is 23:59 PST tonight, February 10.

Learn more about the submission process, guidelines, and access the submission software - ncm-society.org/subm...

Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.

Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer...
Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!

Hahaha the olden days

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Very cool work from my friends and colleagues @actlab.bsky.social and Damon Clark - I am lucky to get to hang out with them at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social

Very proud that this is finally out!

Come for the new auditory illusion, stay for the brain imaging and speech analysis…..

we just updated this preprint, now with a new experiment showing no speech adaptation when sensory errors are simply observed without a preceding motor plan -->

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University

Imagination in bonobos!

I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org

We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative

youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Song of the Cerebellum Is thought just motion in the mind?

Cerebellum!

radiolab.org/podcast/song...

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.

By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!

samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏

postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

Exactly ❤️

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Bob weir 😔

RIP

Come wash the nighttime clean
Come grow this scorched ground green

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year - Inside Climate News Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.  Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, a...

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...

Happy New Year, everyone!

Excited to share that our paper, “Goal uncertainty attenuates sensorimotor adaptation,” is now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Huge thanks to our collaborators—Sritej, Bobby, and Reza @rezashadmehr.bsky.social.

Paper: tinyurl.com/yyfast5m

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Founded in 2021, @yale.edu's Wu Tsai Institute 🏢 is advancing human neuroscience research by connecting cutting-edge neuroimaging, computation, and behavioral science to uncover how brain networks give rise to cognition 🧠

Read More 👇
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Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence Nature Neuroscience - Adaptive intelligence envisions AI that, like animals, learns online, generalizes and adapts quickly. This Perspective reviews biological foundations, progress in AI and...

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?

➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com

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