Jamie Murray

Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies? — The Learning Scientists I’m currently preparing teaching for the upcoming academic year. One focus for me has been student self-regulated learning and time management skills. So, as I’m developing resources for students and...

NEW POST: "Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies?" by @drckt.bsky.social

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🚨 New preprint alert!

Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory.

Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory.

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I don’t have experience lifting my own weight but plank was part of my routine last year and I struggled with anything beyond 2 minutes. Hated it every time.

I think the plank is probably for about 90% of us though. Ooft.

My American summer students have been impressed with Scotlands coffee scene. Here’s my favourite coffee shop which is in Dundee - JA Braithwaites. It’s like walking into a Time Machine and they know their stuff!

Game Boy™ 72046 | LEGO® Super Mario™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB Nintendo® themed collectible building set for adults

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Centre for Neurodiversity and Development Public Lecture Why autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha

PUBLIC LECTURE:

My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

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Picture of Glencoe

Took the kids to Glencoe for a wee day trip. It’s a pretty amazing place that we are lucky enough to have on our doorstep (well maybe not a doorstep but def within a 2 hour drive)…

Huge congratulations to Simon Hanzal for passing his PhD today 🎉 And to @jamiemurray86.bsky.social and @drgbuckingham.bsky.social for examining (and most excellent post-viva chat)👌🏻 @ccniuofg.bsky.social

Examining a PhD thesis – internal examiner One of the things which will eventually land on your lap as a new lecturer is a request to examine a doctoral thesis. In the UK (where the vast majority of these requests will come from, if you are…

My first time internal examining PhD candidate went extremely well. Congratulations Simon! It helped that the external was @drgbuckingham.bsky.social who helpfully wrote the book (…well blog) on what to expect as an internal examiner!

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I loved the first culture novel, the second was okay and I bombed out of the 3rd. I just couldn’t handle all the sassy drones.

Excellent from @mikehobbiss.bsky.social

Cueing attention for future checks has multiple benefits!

Freedom!

In our second blog post about Papercheck, we demonstrate some modules that check for @apajournals.bsky.social‬ JARS, such as reporting exact p-values and including effect sizes with inferential tests.

Worth rewatching Rouge One right after season 2.

I was in Budapest recently for a friend’s wedding. Pretty proud of this photo of St Stephen’s Basilica

Semantic Memory Traces Reflect How They Were Last Retrieved Episodic memories are known to change with each act of retrieval. We hypothesize that semantic memories are altered in a similar way when retrieval draws on a core dimension of conceptual knowledge: s...

Here's a 🧵 on a new pre-print with @amyqixx.bsky.social giving fMRI evidence that retrieving a concept leaves a unique neural fingerprint:

Semantic memories carry a trace of how they were last accessed, detectable during later recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“This is how literacy gets repackaged as compliance. You’re not teaching kids to be curious. You’re teaching them to get along with the system.”

What Are We Going to Do With Carl? Probably Exactly What Carl Wants. AI is not breaking education. It is doing exactly what the system trained us to accept. Carl just makes it harder to ignore.

I just read this excellent article ‘How are we going to deal with Carol’ by James O’Hagan reflecting on an exercise in which students were asked how they would deal with an unreliable and over-confident team member who they could never ask to leave.

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A Thread - Applications are open for a funded Masters in Psychology Research @micireland.bsky.social in one of the following areas - further details available here: www.mic.ul.ie/faculty-of-a...

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊

Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

Learning Styles, Preferences, or Strategies? An Explanation for the Resurgence of Styles Across Many Meta-analyses - Educational Psychology Review The persistence of learning styles as a concept in educational discourse and research is paradoxical, given the overwhelming evidence discrediting the matching hypothesis, the notion that aligning tea...

On the importance of distinguishing between learning strategies (experimentally validated and effective) versus learning styles (nonsense).

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New polling shows public support for international students | Russell Group A new survey shows the majority of people don't think international students are a priority for immigration restrictions

It's a shame that international student numbers will be cut, because only 2% of voters want their post-study work limited and they bring £37bn to the country. But Britain has gone mad and willingly chosen poverty, so there it is, nothing to be done. www.russellgroup.ac.uk/news/new-pol...

Old time crisis machine found in the kids arcade. Classic, it even had the old monitors. This pic was taken after I had already sunk a small fortune into it.

Hot off the press: provocative but plausible findings from SPN 😁 - "older adults are intrinsically motivated to do well on tasks whereas younger age groups perform optimally only after incentivisation"

I just heard Peter Latham give a presentation on this terrific African summer school. 2/3rds students from Africa, 1/3rd from Europe/Asia, and the most exceptional faculty on the planet (like their new director, Adrienne Fairhall, just elected into the US National Academy). 🤩

Here is a new, shorter version of our mental imagery survey. Please if you can spare a few minutes we would appreciate if you could take this & pass it along to others who might be interested. Thanks! tstbl.co/763-452
#neuroskyence #visionscience #psychscisky #aphantasia #mentalimagery

It took her far longer than expected.

University of Glasgow Centre for Neurotechnology Neurotechnology seminar series (II): New brain stimulation techniques to improve memory functions Wednesday, 7ᵗʰ May, 3:00 – 5:00 pm Seminar Room 62 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QB Follow in Zoom Meeting ID: 885 1805 6409 Passcode: 415722 Dr Ines Violante – King’s College London Temporal interference (TI) electrical stimulation is a non-invasive method to target the hippocampus. It can modulate hippocampal activity and enhance episodic memory performance, as well as to causally probe cortical-hippocampal communication during sleep, offering new insights into the mechanisms underlying memory consolidation. Prof. Simon Hanslmayr – Cognition and Oscillations Lab, University of Glasgow Human memory can potentially be enhanced through two approaches: using multi-sensory flickering movies to modulate brain oscillations; and targeting single-neuron activity in the hippocampus to identify and reactivate specific memories. These approaches

Discover how non-invasive brain stimulation and multi-sensory techniques could boost memory, shed new light on memory consolidation, and contribute to the development of future wearable technologies for clinical use.

🗓️7 May
🍷 Drinks & nibbles after

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