How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐น ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ณ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ?
Don't expect simple mappings between mind and brain.
Check out this piece I wrote for Aeon.
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
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Trauma-analogue symptom variability predicted by inhibitory control and peritraumatic heart rate - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Trauma-analogue symptom variability predicted by inhibitory control and peritraumatic heart rate
Interested in why some people are more susceptible to develop trauma-related symptoms than others and what roles the autonomic nervous system and cognitive control might play?
You might find some answers and probably even more questions here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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PI of the https://imaginerealitylab.org/ @uclbrainscience.bsky.social where we investigate the neural and computational mechanisms of mental imagery and reality monitoring. Activist about mental health and EDI in academia. She/her.
Professor University of Maryland, co-founder Silvec Biologics finding RNA solutions to plant diseases, love Plant Virology, author Real Science Behind The X-Files, and passionate about dressage!
Neuroscientist at MRC Cognition an Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, studying memory, cognitive control, and mechanisms of adaptive forgetting
Professor of Psychology Emotionlab.se Karolinska Institutet Study social and affective learning, conditioned threat, decision-making, biological and social systems
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peer reviewed journal published by MIT Press. JoCN publishes papers that bridge the gap between descriptions of information processing and specifications of brain activity. neuropsychology, experimental psychology, neurology, computational modeling, AI ..
Cognitive Neuroscience PhD Candidate at GWU in DC (seeking post-doc position!). Interested in vision, attention, emotion, cognitive effort, and especially what we learn from their deficits. Fond of illusions, D&D, cello, video games, houseplants, scotch.
Professor of psychology. Study culture and societal change, wisdom, good judgment (and lack thereof), forecasting, and new methods. Forecasting Collaborative founder | ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ Psych Inquiry Editor. igorgrossmann.com OnWisdompodcast.com
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Reporting research on human behavior and cognition. #PsychSciSky #Psychology #SciComm
Psychologist, stress research and interindividual differences, open science
Associate Professor of cognitive neuroscience, Associate Dean for Research CoAS, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences @
Drexel, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, neuroscience of creativity, (cognitive) control freak
Doctoral student in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging
Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology ๐๐ง
Memory | Cognitive Neuroscience | Aging | Mental Health | Also dogs ๐
We are the fNIM Lab led by Dr. Michael Rugg.
Our research investigates the cognitive and neural bases of memory and how and why memory function differs with healthy aging or neurological disease.
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Professor, LAB lab, University of Oslo ๐ณ๐ด
Pleasure, pain, opioids.
Affective Brains.
President @S4SNeuro.bsky.social.
Twin mum.
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Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is the gold standard in extracting social and psychological insights from language data. Here's LIWCing at you, kid. https://www.liwc.app
Cognitive Psychology Lab at the University of Hamburg
Studying memory, decision-making and stress effects ๐ง ๐กPI: Lars Schwabe
https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/kognitionspsychologie.html
Predoctoral Researcher @stresscognition.bsky.social (Schwabe Lab) | Hamburg
