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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Wow this is great news!

Super happy to announce that our Research Training Group "PIMON" is funded by the @dfg.de ! Starting in October, we will have exciting opportunities for PhD students that want to explore object and material perception & interaction in Gießen @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! Just look at this amazing team!

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions).
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all time I believe we should talk about the mistakes we make.

How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

A busy figure showing some time series and timing distributions movement versus speech

Team science (all shared authorship), pre-registered, diamond open access paper now accepted at Open Mind: "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-speech Hand Movements".

with Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Doenja Hustin, Lieke van Maastricht

www.wimpouw.com/files/POSTPR...

Rhythmic Speech Facilitates Turn-Taking, finds @juletzky.bsky.social. See osf.io/preprints/ps....

Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions | PNAS Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Felt-Presence and Psychosis-Risk in the General Population Abstract. Objective: Felt presence (FP) is the experience that another entity is present in one’s proximal environment, despite no sensory evidence. Occurrence of FP is linked to psychosis-risk, but q...

New paper from @parkbmb.bsky.social on links between felt presence and psychosis risk. Some surprising associations between individual differences in resilience and aspects of felt presence experiences: karger.com/psp/article/...

New lab preprint: Searching for visuomotor matches vs mismatches biases confidence and visual sampling strategies, but not performance
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With @daniellametti.com and David Green

Lower Cortical Activation and Altered Functional Connectivity Characterize Passive Auditory Spatial Attention in ASD Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental condition characterized by difficulties in social interaction, communication, and sensory processing. The ability to orient towards sounds is a key c...

Our new MEG study is out! Here, we show alterations in both auditory evoked responses and alpha-band connectivity during a passive spatial auditory task in ASD. We also found that functional connectivity is associated with ASD and sensory symptomatology.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ziyue Hu, Dominic M.D. Tran, and Reuben Rideaux:

Multimodal evidence challenges the effectiveness of probabilistic cueing for establishing sensory expectations

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library Communicating emotional intentions via emojis influences how people evaluate and mimic facial expressions during social interactions. Sending a smile emoji increased pleasantness and mimicry of happy...

Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions!

Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response!

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

🥳 Our study led by @edwardody.bsky.social from the @tnm-lab.bsky.social is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. Take a look if you are interested in action-perception transition, readiness potential, and voluntariness of action!

📍https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70236

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...

Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

Sofie Valk and Daniel Reznik receive ERC Starting Grants Sofie Valk and Daniel Reznik receive ERC Starting Grants

Huge congratulations 🥳 to
@sofievalk.bsky.social
&
@reznikdan.bsky.social
for receiving ERC Starting Grants 2025! We're proud of you!
Learn more about their projects: www.cbs.mpg.de/2397348/2025...

Agentic coding using Claude Code Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 5, Part 2

Agentic coding using Claude Code - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...

Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder - Schizophrenia Schizophrenia - Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder

🧠 New paper out!
Rashid, Kircher & Straube (2025) investigate temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active vs. passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder.

📄 Schizophrenia:
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...

📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages?

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W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.

Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

Congratulations to Flo Martinez-Addiego and ‪@striemamit.bsky.social‬ for the publication of a cool new paper in PNAS showing that high-level actions like tool use generalize between hand and foot, even in individuals born without hands. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

thrilled that our guides for #OpenScience in developing countries is now published in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Please see the thread for details

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration.

tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...

Deadline Sept 5: 2 Lecturers, area open (see ad for more), Psychology, University of York

@davidpoeppel.bsky.social points out the elephant in the conference: whichever direction of the planet we look, things are bad.

Einstein, chomsky and arendt point out to us that silence is not neutral

👏 #CCN2025

Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation Prevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe...

📣 New preprint 📣

The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Postdoc (80%) in the Cognition Lab at University of Zurich, Switzerland

We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on the capacity limits of cognition (working memory, attention, long-term memory, ...).

Application deadline: 10 September 2025

Wow this is great news! Welcome to Europe!