Thérèse Collins

On dirait bien. Il y en a le long du canal Saint-Martin, bassin de la Villette, canal de l’Ourcq, ce n’est pas inhabituel!

Group photo of Collectif Cognitif 2025

2nd annual meeting of the French #cogpsych community in Dieppe, Normandy.
Great fun to co-organize with @gaenplancher.bsky.social and François Maquestiaux!
#collectifcognitif2025

EP #10 | @theresecollins.bsky.social recommends viewing some cool visual illusions (and illusion contests) and Moby Dick - we leave it to you to find out the link between cognitive science and Moby Dick

www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/in... ; illusionoftheyear.com

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

Using AI for peer reviewing is like using a microwave to reheat an old meal - Pascal Mamassian, 2025

"As appealing as they can be, Large Language Models are as useful to scientific research as microwaves are to fine
cuisine."

doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Had a great time participating in this event on AI & Psychology - great cross-talk between clinical psych & #CogPsych

I need more time to think

a screenshot of the preprint first page, with the text: Between repulsion and attraction in serial biases: Replication of Chen & Bae, 2024 Juni B. Akselberg, Sara B. Cardona, Mikkel Dybvad, Lise Martine Karlstad, Malin Langemyr, Ingrid A. Mellingsæter-Jokic, Mats K. K. Moe, Amalie C. Solvang, and Andrey Chetverikov 1 Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen 2 Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen Abstract What you see depends on what you have seen before, and commonly your perception is drawn toward the past. Such attractive biases, known as serial dependence, are well established for many visual features. Interestingly, Chen and Bae (2024, Cognition) recently reported a repulsive serial bias in a pointing direction estimation task that switched to an attractive one in the presence of a distracting task. At the same time, an analysis of response trajectories revealed a repulsive bias during response execution, irrespective of the condition. These surprising findings prompted us to attempt a replication. We confirmed the main findings of Chen and Bae. However, we also demonstrated that the overall direction and magnitude of the bias are relatively stable for a given observer, regardless of the condition. Furthermore, we found that already the very first moment in the response trajectory differed between conditions, showing a predominantly attractive bias for trials that ended with attraction. The results confirm the robustness of the original findings and pose a challenge for a simple Bayesian model of serial dependence, highlighting the need for computational models that can explain both attractive and repulsive biases. Keywords: serial dependence, bias, direction estimation, orientation, visual working memory, Stroop, attraction, repulsion, mouse tracking, stimulus history effect, perceptual decision-making, replication

New preprint! Serial dependence is assumed to be attractive, but some studies consistently show repulsion. We tried to replicate a surprising repulsive serial bias that switches to an attractive one when people get distracted during the memory maintenance. It worked! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Thanks for your input, Andrey! It is (somewhat) possible to disentangle stimulus and response around the reference (many error trials), esp when resp is categorical (CW/CCW) and stimulus has multiple levels. Then model weights are informative.

Josh Wallman with grey parrot

Pelican at Saint Pete’s beach

#vss2025 is about science and networking and meeting up with friends, old and new.
I always enjoyed the birds, they bring back fond memories of birding with Josh Wallman. I was an amateur birder to his exquisite expertise…
He is sorely missed!

Repulsion, attraction, serial dependence, adaptation…
Confused?
Good thing @canmertdoit.bsky.social cleared that up for us at #vss2025 with his awesome poster.

You can also find his preprint here:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Serial dependence is feature-tuned to object categories

PhD candidate Pierre Costa presenting our work at #vss2025

Collectif Cognitif

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif:

Mardi 6 mai 12h15-13h15 (h de Paris)
François Quesque (Univ Paris Nanterre)

Variations interculturelles de la cognition sociale

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Traveling waves in the human visual cortex: An MEG-EEG model-based approach Author summary Brain oscillations, thought to be crucial for many cognitive processes, might actually be waves that travel across the brain’s surface. Understanding these traveling waves is notoriousl...

🚨New article from the #DuguéLab in #PLOS_Computational_Biology, led by @lgrabot.bsky.social! We developed a new model-based neuroimaging approach to study Traveling Waves in visual cortex using MEG-EEG.
@erc.europa.eu

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The Trump budget cuts to Harvard are ~= the total budget the French government gives to ALL universities & higher Ed in France…

cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by… | cog-SUP cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université! Jérôme Iste, Talia Sander and Joaquín Schlotthauer from the first cog-SUP class is t...

#cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by @upcite.bsky.social and @sorbonne-universite.fr! Jérôme Iste, Talia Sander and Joaquín Schlotthauer from the first cog-SUP class is telling you all about it!

More info: cog-sup.fr

www.linkedin.com/posts/cog-su...

This guy is speaking at 'legendary Piano Vache bar 🍺' this Friday at 5pm (one free drink included!)

That doesn’t work for this year for which fees have already been paid.

NIH/NSF funding cuts would mostly affect student travel grants. This revision may thus look like complying in advance but may actually be protecting international students in advance.
Would be nice if the #VSS2025 Board could explain, but given their track record I lean towards good intentions.

Writing is thinking. We get students to write so that they learn how to think and use their brains. Using LLMs to do your work is like trying to be an athlete by getting someone else to do your training for you.

Collectif Cognitif

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif:

Jeudi 27 mars 12h15-13h15 (h de Paris)
Josselin Baumard (Univ de Rouen)

Outils, Action, Contexte: de la cognition motrice à la cognition sociale

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The whole book is worth (re)reading!

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience

"But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

I have been tasked w/preparing a workshop on writing & submitting for #CogPsych #neuroscience PhD candidates, so I unearthed this book. My 2000 edition is outdated and even if recent editions seem ~better (e.g. exit the chapt by Bem recommending HARKing), I’d ❤️ ⭐️recommendations⭐️ for alternatives!
🙏🏼

Dieppe beachfront

Come meet the French #CogPsych community at our annual meeting, this year in Normandy!

Abstract submissions closed mais l’inscription est open until le 30 avril:
collectifcognitif.sciencesconf.org

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #Psychology #Cognition #neuroskyence #ESR

Collectif Cognitif

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif:

Mardi 11 mars 12h-13h30 (h de Paris)
Léo Dutriaux (Univ Lyon 2)

Les référentiels spatiaux dans la représentation de l’espace et du temps

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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

#standupforscience Paris

Brain with a gaussian representing the Seine in Paris. Logo of the Computational Neuroscience workshop at Université Paris Cité.

Join us March 6th for a workshop on #Computational_Neuroscience. We’ll discuss several research topics within this interdisciplinary field, and ways to grow the local community.
@upcite.bsky.social

biomedicale.u-paris.fr/workshop-on-...