Akira Miyake

Why do some things stick in memory while others fade?
Next Tue, Dec 9, Alan Castel (UCLA) will be presenting in
@motcogmeet.bsky.social online talk series on “Memory Selectivity in Younger and Older Adults: A Value-Directed Remembering Approach.” 1/

Join us! (link below)

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

Handbook of Personalized Learning, in print and held to show cover.

The Handbook of Personalized Learning is finally in print!

Arrived yesterday(!) & pre-order pricing thru 🦃. www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-...
We provided teachers & designers with a guide to theoretically supported PL design logic & demos across subject areas, ages, & contexts.

+DIY figure! ⬇️

Andrew R. A. Conway

Michael J. Kane

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

A precision neuroscience approach to estimating reliability of neural responses during emotion processing: Implications for task-fMRI - PubMed Recent work demonstrating low test-retest reliability of neural activation during fMRI tasks raises questions about the utility of task-based fMRI for the study of individual variation in brain functi...

This work was inspired by an awesome similar study by @johnflournoy.science 2024 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38141745/), obviously the midnight scan club @gordonneuro.bsky.social 2017 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) and many other amazing recent studies in precision imaging

🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!

Attending Psychonomics in Denver? Consider arriving early enough to join the 2nd mtg of the Symposium for Individual Differences (SIDIC) on Thurs. Registration is open thru 10/31 & we've got a great program planned, with a keynote by @amiyake.bsky.social
caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025/pr...

Whether this multilab project actually takes place depends on the availability of funds, but I hope the funding will materialize! I cover this classic study in my cog psych class, but, as the graph shows, the effect is rather small. I'd be interested in finding out what comes out of it.

@rolfzwaan.bsky.social is organizing a multilab replication of Loftus & Palmer's (1974) classic study: People's memory of two cars' speed was influenced by the verb used in Q ("How fast were the cars moving when they ____"). This is exciting, & if you want to take part in it, check out Rolf's post.

Another tenure/TT open-rank position is open in Developmental Neuroscience!

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Deadline is also Sept. 15

Notre Dame is hiring in Psychology! We have an open-rank, tenure/TT position in Cognitive Neuroscience: apply.interfolio.com/170229

Application deadline is soon (Sept. 15)

Here's a replication of an informal Big 5 result I posted yesterday (the original post is pinned on my profile page). Glad to see that @aurelienallard.bsky.social found the same result. I'd love to see more attempts like this on Big 5 or other constructs. Thanks, Aurélien, for doing this analysis!

I'd be happy to ask the grad student who did this analysis as a part of a little class project, but, in the meantime, here's a Big 5 replication attempt by @aurelienallard.bsky.social. I'd love to see how our and his results fare in other datasets.

Wow, thanks for trying to replicate the informal class project result w/ a different dataset! That's amazing!

Here's some replication by @aurelienallard.bsky.social using a different dataset based on 50 items in case you're interested. I'd love to see more replications w/ Big 5 & other psychological constructs (e.g., intelligence).

At least some (possibly all) of the 10 body measurements are likely to be correlated (even substantially), so I tend to think that the math based on total independence might not quite capture what happened in the Daniels pilot study.

Cool thread. Excellent reminder that bodies and personalities (and faces fwiw) are multidimensional, and that averages are poor lenses with which to examine them. Further, relationships within/between dimensions may be complex - jagged, yes, but also networked & dynamic

#neuroskyence #psychscisky

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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

YouTube video by TEDx Talks How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall! 

The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.

I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

Well, the answer turned out to be ZERO! (A follow-up thread pinned to my profile page provides a bit of an explanation of what we did.)

The answer turned out to be ZERO in one informal analysis (see a follow-up thread pinned to my profile page for more info).

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!)

This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313).

What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think.

(🧵 1/5)

Perhaps your QB situation will change soon, and they might perform better?

The Seahawks didn't do well, either, today, especially at the very end. Sigh...

That’s impressive, especially because the fence seems really high!

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Thanks for providing your guesses! I just posed the answer, so pls check it out.

What a story! What happened to the 4 kittens?

Definitely!

Your guess was correct!