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Post-doctoral neuroscience researcher interested in perception, attention, and working memory. Gamer and literature fan. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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My first post-doctoral paper is out! Grateful to have worked with @andrecravo.bsky.social and the amazing team at UFABC on this.

25.10.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

01.07.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 534 πŸ” 228 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 15

FAPESP recently announced two new calls to attract international researchers to SΓ£o Paulo. Both opportunities include grant funding and scholarships, and could be interesting depending on career stage and plans. #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

Here is a quick summary of each:

19.05.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

11.05.2025 05:34 πŸ‘ 1127 πŸ” 273 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 18
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Extreme-Value Signal Detection Theory for RecognitionMemory: The Parametric Road Not Taken Signal Detection Theory has long served as a cornerstone of psychological research, particularly in recognition memory. Yet its conventional application hinges almost exclusively on the Gaussian…

Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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27.04.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
A flying superhero cat

A flying superhero cat

πŸ”” Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox

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08.04.2025 08:17 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
Comic showing robot cops about to arrest a guy, one robot says "wait! Not that guy. He always said thanks...". Panel then shows laptop screen from 10 years ago, ChatGPT interface where guy had written "great answer! Thanks."

Comic showing robot cops about to arrest a guy, one robot says "wait! Not that guy. He always said thanks...". Panel then shows laptop screen from 10 years ago, ChatGPT interface where guy had written "great answer! Thanks."

Not sure who made this but it made me lol

02.04.2025 10:01 πŸ‘ 250 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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Timing Research Forum 4 Welcome to TRF4! The 4th Timing Research Forum Conference We are excited to welcome you to TRF4, the fourth international conference organized by the Timing Research Forum (TRF) community. TRF is a v...

Abstract submission for #TRF4 is now open!! @timingresforum.bsky.social

Symposium Proposals : March 15 - April 20
Oral and poster presentations : March 15 - May 31

sites.google.com/view/trf4tok...

22.03.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)

11.03.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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What happened to cognitive science? - Nature Human Behaviour NΓΊΓ±ez et al. use bibliometric and socio-institutional indicators to show that over the years, cognitive science has failed to transition to a mature, coherent, interdisciplinary field.

I found this to be an informative and provocative read - what happened to cognitive science? Authors argue, based on bibliometric and scientometric analysis, that cognitive science as a discipline is basically dead. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.02.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 12

This list looks really handy for teaching and research ⬇️

03.02.2025 09:58 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's right, we checked it visually, which showed larger variance in the action condition in variable-foreperiod experiments, but we did not run any tests. Because this difference between initiation conditions did not appear to interact with foreperiod duration, we chose not to focus on it.

01.02.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm happy to release this preprint along with @andrecravo.bsky.social and the our wonderful colleagues at the Timing and Cognition Lab at UFABC.

31.01.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thou Shalt Not Overfit Venting my spleen about the persistent inanity about overfitting.

Overfitting, as it is colloquially described in data science and machine learning, doesn’t exist. www.argmin.net/p/thou-shalt...

30.01.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5
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Temporal binding: Task-dependent variations and reliability across experimental paradigms - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics Temporal binding refers to the subjective shortening of time between a cause and its effect compared with two unrelated events. The effect has been extensively explored over the past two decades and m...

πŸ•’ Excited to share our latest study on Temporal Binding, recently published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics! We explored task-dependent variations and reliability across paradigms. Here's what we found: rdcu.be/d4eLP

#TemporalPerception #Causality #TemporalBinding #Reliability

11.01.2025 23:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy that this has now been published: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Open (view-only) version can also be seen here: rdcu.be/d4eLP

Code and data: osf.io/tk8f6/

20.12.2024 11:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0