Junghee Lee

Thank you to the Committee for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, for the opportunity to share thoughts on mentorship and leadership in #psychiatry tinyurl.com/2bpfn2fj Hope it’s useful to others navigating similar paths. #women #neuroscience

#eNeuro | Population-Level Age Effects on the White Matter Structure Subserving Cognitive Flexibility in the Human Brain
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0179-25.2025

#eNeuro | When Familiar Faces Feel Better: A Framework for Social Neurocognitive Aging in a Rat Model
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0422-25.2025

Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion Making decisions on behalf of other people reduces decision confidence, which leads to responsibility aversion.

When we have to make a decision that affects other individuals—parents making decisions for children, for instance—our confidence in our decisions declines, making us averse to the responsibility.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4cMK5ky

Alabama Public Television Presents | Tuxedo Junction: Almost Lost Story Explore the story of Tuxedo Junction in Birmingham — the neighborhood, the place and the song.

Because I wanted to end today on a positive note. It was good to learn about the history of Birmingham AL and jazz jam sessions I have been enjoying for the past 5 years. www.pbs.org/video/tuxedo...

Introducing the #JNeurosci special collection, Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research, published in today's issue. Read the commentary from Steve Chang and Patricia Lockwood.
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The tuned cortex: Convergent expertise-related structural and functional remodeling across the adult lifespan Neuroplasticity is a defining property of the brain. Structural and functional brain changes arise soon after learning and are particularly evident following years of practice that underpin expert per...

The irony of cognitive neuroscientists, many of which deride my research on bird brains, finding that birding might help mitigate cognitive decline is not lost on me.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

#neuroskyence #birding

Big paper release! ConversationAlign - methods for computing lexical and affective alignment between interlocutors in dyadic conversation transcripts. Open Access in Behavior Research Methods. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Correlates of interpersonal physiological synchrony and sources of empirical heterogeneity

Review by Ilanit Gordon & Ronny P. Bartsch

Web: go.nature.com/4qCff1l
PDF: rdcu.be/e4pSE

#psychscisky #socialpsych

We review studies showing that when brain areas face similar computational demands in social and non-social context, they perform the same computations. We argue that exaptation (repurposing of traits for new functions) played a key role in brain evolution.

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants Learners rely on a combination of experience-independent and experience-dependent mechanisms to extract information from the environment. Language acquisition involves both types of mechanisms, but mo...

This paper is a model of clarity! It successfully argues that innately biased language learning mechanisms are more plausible than innate language knowledge.
Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants Learners rely on a combination of experience-independent and experience-dependent mechanisms to extract information from the environment. Language acquisition involves both types of mechanisms, but mo...

Brains learn structure without reward, instruction, or feedback — a process called statistical learning.

Human infants do this effortlessly (famous work by Saffran et al 1996), but how does the brain implement it?

2/7
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Words Without Consequence What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?

LLM, fluency, competence and agency

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The role of context in continuity and segmentation Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02403-wAcross three experiments, Baror et al. show that context shifts reduce serial dependence (bias towards prior choices) and shape memory at event boundaries.

The role of context in continuity and segmentation

Superb Owl Sunday X A special Sunday event: our tenth-annual photo collection celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. If you have some time before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely), we invite you to ...

These are amazing!
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Something to think about everyday

Yes, it is quite striking. Birmingham surprises me in several ways. And I believe this is permanent.

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

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

Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context - Nature Single-neuron recordings in humans reveal largely separate content and context neurons whose coordinated activity flexibly places memory items in context.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Cerebellum!

radiolab.org/podcast/song...

Growing clinical and scientific evidence makes one thing clear: the mind and body are deeply interconnected. Our Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface MSc, a world-first, blends advanced theory with hands-on, real-world training.

Learn more: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

In Memory of Dr. Denise C. Park In Memory of Dr. Denise C. Park Dr. Denise C. Park passed away on Sunday, February 1, 2026, at age 74. She was a beloved cognitive neuroscientist and colleague whose remarkable career spanned over 50…

We are deeply saddened to share that Dr. Denise C. Park, founder of CVL, passed away on Sunday, Feb 1. A pioneering cognitive neuroscientist, mentor, & leader, Dr. Park shaped the study of memory, aging, & the brain. Read the full remembrance here: cvl.utdallas.edu/in-memory-of-dr-denise-c-park/

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Here’s what they found:

Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars.

Those interruptions are more likely to:
- Cut women off mid-sentence
- Come from men
- Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

They didn’t rely on surveys or self-reports.

Instead, what they did was really cool:

They had humans and LLMs code audio recordings of talks to measure:
-Who interrupts
-How often they interrupt
-When interruptions occur
-Whether interruptions are neutral or adversarial

This is very true…

❄️🎣 What ice-fishing competitions reveal about human decision-making. New paper in @science.org by researchers from @mpib-berlin.bsky.social, @scioi.bsky.social, and the University of Eastern Finland.

👉 Read more: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new...

📄 Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...