Sebastian Korb

Crying spells triggered by thumb-index rubbing after thalamic stroke: a case report

Remarkable. Uncontrollable laughing or crying can happen *without* emotion ("pseudobulbar affect"). Here's a video of one individual whose crying is triggered by real or imagined rubbing of his finger & thumb. Intense response but not sadness. /1

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2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

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Liam Gallagher Declares Oasis Concerts Safe for Cheaters: 'We Don't Have That Coldplay Camera' Liam Gallagher jokes that Oasis concerts are safe for cheaters following an apparent infidelity incident that unfolded on a Coldplay jumbotron camera.

"Doesn’t matter to us who you’re fucking mingling with, or tingling with, or fingering with. It’s none of our fucking business."

in Oxford, a grade 7 (entry-level) postdoc costs about £180K for 3 years, including fringe. For UKRI grants, the university now adds **£460K** in overheads. is that normal? do other UK universities impose such outlandish FEC?

Quite proud of this latest work from the KorbLab, which replicates behavioral effects of zygomaticus activation on happiness categorization, and also reveals an N170 reduction, suggesting reduced visual processing in combination with targeted facial feedback input

We are still looking for collaborators, especially from Africa, Asia and South America for our project on how people from around the world correct their intuitive reasoning errors. More information below. Pls join and share!

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Emotions are core to the human experience 😆😮🙂😊☹️😠😳😑
But how do they arise? Our brain-wide ⚡recordings in humans and mice reveal some answers @ScienceMagazine. A big team effort and debut paper from @Stanford's new Human Neural Circuitry program. bit.ly/4dEyX7Z

On 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely
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Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) The Center for Open Science (COS) is launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to help support a transparent and trustworthy foundation in ...

📣 COS is excited to launch the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)!

Seeking researchers with expertise in quantitative methods in health behavior, public health, epidemiology, health policy, & related fields for this large-scale, multi-team replication effort.

➡️ Details: www.cos.io/rphb

New paper day! Using EEG and frequency tagging, we show that posing a smile reduces neural discrimination of happy versus neutral faces, possibly by making neutral faces look happier. Led by Joshua Baker, with great help from Stephanie Van der Donck and Bart Boets. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

Vacancy — Postdoc Investigating Human Sources of Bias in AI Face Classification Models How are human ideologies and prejudices amplified by AI models? How do human biases get into AI model training data? And how does the output of such models influence the decisions and behaviors of use...

Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam!

Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck.

More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir

Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!

Join the Lab We're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship: Predictive Models for Cognitive Fluctuations  Closing date: 12 noon (IST), June 1st 2024 We are seeking a Research Fellow to pioneer the development of passive s...

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

Trump’s “free” speech:

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Vol. 24 - Here is a revised version of your review with improved clarity ChatGPT is not my peer. It should not review my papers.

We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

Unbelievably scary: www.science.org/content/blog...

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says "it is no longer an option for us to continue as we are".

It says a lot about the current funding crisis affecting UK universities when Wales' biggest university proposes to close its Nursing course to save money, at a time when the NHS is desperate for more nurses.

2025 SoNeAt Lab fNIRS hyperscanning workshop flyer

I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February.

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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).

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What are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...

Postdoctoral positions in Emotion Research. Come and collaborate with 24 training faculty across disciplines in the nation’s longest standing emotion research training program (also home to the country’s largest local farmers market). Applications are due on Friday, February 7,2025. emotion.wisc.edu

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Dara Ó Briain, Dr Wijnand van Tilburg and Hannah Fry

Comedy legend @daraobriain.bsky.social and award-winning science presenter @fryrsquared.bsky.social have teamed up with Essex Psychology's Dr Wijnand van Tilburg to explore the brilliance of boredom on their BBC Radio 4 Curious Cases podcast.

You can listen now:
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Thank you @ayesharascoe.bsky.social and @npr.org for giving me the chance to talk about our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...

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Electrical smiles spark better moods | BPS The debate on whether facial expressions can influence mood rages on, with new work using electrical stimulation adding a fresh twist.

see also a nice summary about that paper for the British Psychological Society: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Over the moon that our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation (recently published in Emotion, shorturl.at/YRS9d) was featured in ScientificAmerican @sciam.bsky.social. Thank you so much @RachelNuwer for the interview, and thank you Heather Lench for endorsing us.