Lisa S. Scott 🧠

A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996) The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of…

C👀L! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What screen time really does to children's brains Screen time has become synonymous with bad news - but the science may not be as straightforward as it seems

I like this take on screen time and cutting NSF and NIH funding wont get us any closer to understanding the complexities. www.bbc.com/news/article... What screen time really does to children's brains - BBC News

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social

📍 Join us at the WISE Luncheon at #2025SPR! We'll cover negotiating contracts, navigating unsupportive lab environments, applying for awards, and managing impostor syndrome.
Thurs 10/15 | 12:00–1:30 PM

About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research Vitamin D has long been known to play essential roles in boosting immune health and protecting the nervous system. New research now points to its critical importance in fetal development as well.

Vitamin D supplements may be a promising, low-cost strategy to support brain development while reducing racial disparities, according to a professor of nutrition science. theconversation.com/about-a-thir... By Melissa Melough @udelaware.bsky.social

5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet AI is more than just chatbots! Learn about how AI can be used to protect biodiversity, fight climate change, and just better understand our planet through 5-minute explainers covering academic papers ...

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

Great trip to Ameila Island! Lots of fun finding and identifying fossils and getting up for the sunrise!

Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention | PNAS Transformers have a remarkable ability to learn and execute tasks based on examples provided within the input itself, without explicit prior traini...

Great to see this one finally out in PNAS! Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Many thanks to my amazing co-authors Yue Lu, Mary Letey, Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social and Anindita Maiti!

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

Top left: A stimulus appears in the center of the screen and participants are instructed to respond as fast and as accurately as possible according to the finger/object mapping displayed at the bottom of the screen. Note that the finger-object mapping displayed on the bottom of the screen changed after each stream of 8 elements (i.e., every 8 objects/8 finger presses) in order to orthogonalize object and motor sequence learning (see right panel). Top right: Three different task conditions were designed: object sequence with random finger presses (that resulted in the learning of an 8-element object sequence, SQ OBJ), motor sequence with random object presentation (that resulted in the learning of an 8-element finger sequence, SQ MOT) and a random series with random finger presses and random object presentation (RD). Bottom: On day 1, after baseline performance assessment with a random (RD) SRTT, participants learned a sequence of objects (SQ OBJ SRTT) and a sequence of movements (SQ MOT SRTT), outside the MRI scanner, in two separate sessions 4h apart (order counterbalanced across participants). On day 2, brain activity was recorded on the three task conditions with fMRI over 8 runs during which the RD, SQ OBJ and SQ MOT conditions were pseudo-randomly interleaved so that the same condition did not repeat more than 2 times in a row. A retest session was then performed outside the scanner to assess memory retention on each sequence condition (order counterbalanced across participants) followed by a final test on the random condition.

Different #memory domains can recruit similar brain areas, but is the role of these overlapping regions shared or domain-specific? This study shows that the function of the #hippocampus to preserve the order of sequential behaviors is shared across memory domains @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3GzcM6Q

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions.

Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy

arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

Becoming a Cultural Being: A Dynamic Systems View of Human Development: https://osf.io/ypz8s

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.

sorry if I missed it but who is the new dean? Or we don’t do Deans at CLAS anymore?

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The BCD Lab is expecting to hire a postdoc and a lab coordinator/tech in the coming months! Send me an email if interested and I’ll make sure to send you the job postings once open!

Child Policy Connect Capitol Hill Day Save the Date

📅Save the date for SRCD’s first-ever Child Policy Connect Hill Day being held on July 29th through July 31st. If you’re interested in learning more or participating, please visit bit.ly/CPCinDC before June 25th

#ChildPolicyConnect #SRCDHillDay #ScienceMatters

Super fun to do! Thanks @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

Just by the way, much of the basic research on the cognitive psychology of attention can trace its history to early support from ONR. The problem of vigilance and detection while staring at a radar screen led to support of foundational research on visual attention now applied far and wide.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

trying Veo3 video generation, which has "a better understanding of real world physics, and is smarter at turning your text prompts into video clips."

here is: "a man throws a stuffed animal (children's toy) at a tower of wooden jenga blocks, hitting the tower and causing the blocks to scatter"

SPR is now accepting applications for Travel Awards to attend #2025SPR (due July 1, 2025)! This award provides up to $1,200 in funding. Check out the call and apply: sprweb.org/spr-travel-a...

The History of Juneteenth in Photos Junteenth commemorates the issuance of General Order No. 3 in Galveston, informing enslaved people of their freedom and the end of the Civil War.

For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory

texashighways.com/travel-news/...

Staff Research Associate I - 135608 Apply for Staff Research Associate I - 135608 position at UC San Diego in La Jolla, California on https://employment.ucsd.edu/

My lab is hiring a research coordinator/assistant! If you or someone you know is interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging (MRI, EEG), clinical populations (specifically children with Tourette syndrome), and brain networks, check it out: employment.ucsd.edu/staff-resear...

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

New Papercheck blog: Automatically Checking Journal Article Reporting Standards. We demonstrate how Papercheck can flag inexactly reported p-values and missing effect sizes, and remind researchers to follow the APA JARS guidelines. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/auto...