Matthias Gruber

Investigating curiosity-based learning across the lifespan at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Investigating curiosity-based learning across the lifespan at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🧠 PhD opportunity in my lab: a fully funded project on the cognitive neuroscience of curiosity-based learning across the lifespan at @cubriccardiff.bsky.social (CUBRIC).

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#PhDOpportunity #Curiosity #CuriosityResearch #CognitiveNeuroscience

Last week, we had three amazing days full of discussions and wondering what curiosity actually means. Thank you to @modirshanechi.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, and Lisa Beinborn for being there with us, it was a pleasure. Special thanks to Azzurra Ruggeri for her great talk!

Traveling Through Space and Time With our Memories A person wearing headphones and a red hoodie walks through an airport with a suitcase, gazing at a boarding gate sign marked C7 with a French flag. Thought bubbles depict the Eiffel Tower and a map of...

PhD student Nina Curko and I wrote a short article about the superpowers of memory! Now published in Frontiers for Young Minds: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Me too! 😊 Excited to see what we find -- thanks so much to @marinabazhydai.bsky.social, @pci-regreports.bsky.social, and the reviewers for their thoughtful handing of the process.

Thank you so much @marinabazhydai.bsky.social for the wonderful recommendation and all your editorial support!
Also, a big thank you to the reviewers. Their insightful comments helped strengthen our first-ever fMRI Registered Report. Great experience with PCI and excited for the next steps!

🎉 Congratulations to @edonoghue.bsky.social for leading this in-principle accepted Registered Report with Peer Community In: osf.io/dwy6c.
We're now gearing up for major data collection.
📣 Cardiff families with curious 10–14 year olds: get in touch at curiousbrain@cardiff.ac.uk to sign up!

Thank you so much to @drjocutler.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to @chbh.bsky.social and @uob-sop.bsky.social for the warm welcome. I really enjoyed sharing ideas and connecting over our shared research interests!

Is curiosity the key to ageing well? – podcast Scientists are discovering that rather than tailing off, our curiosity actually becomes more targeted and specific in our later years. Madeleine Finlay finds out what this new understanding could tell...

Is curiosity the key to ageing well?
Big thanks to Madeleine Finlay for the thoughtful conversation and for giving Mary Whatley and me the opportunity to share insights from our latest research on The Guardian Science Weekly podcast.
🎧 Listen here: www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents - Communications Psychology This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions duri...

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning.
@livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
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Deadline is tomorrow so get your applications in people! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

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We're looking for a PhD student to join us on a project exploring how ADHD is linked to greater curiosity.
The PhD student will be based across Cardiff University and the University of Bath working with @ggoclowska.bsky.social , Kate Langley, and me as part of a collaborative team.

So happy to see this work out! 🥳
Huge thanks to our two amazing reviewers who pushed us to make the paper much stronger. A truly joyful collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, @sobeckerneuro.bsky.social, and Johanni Brea! 🥰

Tweeprint on an earlier version: bsky.app/profile/modi... 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Studying memory narratives with natural language processing Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to examine memory narratives with the hopes of gaining a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying differenc...

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that!

Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Thank you so much, Lynn @choosetobecurious.bsky.social, for having me on the podcast!
In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side.
Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊

Thrilled to see our new paper highlighted in this week’s issue of #JNeurosci: we showed that metabolites linked to neuropil contraction are related to gray changes in the PFC across childhood and adolescence #devpsyc #neuroscience #neuroskyence

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, The Psychology of Curiosity at Cheltenham Science Festival Claudia Hammond, Major Tim Peake and panel discuss the psychology of curiosity.

Is curiosity good for us, or should we learn a lesson from what curiosity did to the cat?

A fascinating discussion on the psychology of curiosity, contributed to by Cardiff University’s very own @mjgruber.bsky.social ! Find it here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

For all who didn't make it to the Cheltenham Science Festival this year, here is the recent BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind episode on the Psychology of Curiosity.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

All in the Mind: The Psychology of Curiosity | Cheltenham Festivals Curiosity – it’s what leads us to discovery and inspiration. For astronaut Tim Peake, curiosity has taken him all the way to the International Space Statio

Very much looking forward to today's BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind event about the Psychology of Curiosity at the Cheltenham Science Festival, together with astronaut Tim Peake. This will be fun! www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/all-i...

Thank you so much for the invitation to speak and for all the insightful questions at the Motivated Cognition Meeting this week!

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9

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

My Sir Henry Dale Fellowship funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social & @royalsociety.org ended last week — an incredible 6-year journey.
Huge thanks to the brilliant PhD students & Postdocs in the lab — your ideas, persistence & curiosity drove it all. Thanks also to funders, collaborators & mentors!

The call for MSCA postdoc fellowships is out and the deadline is 10th September.

More generally, people should apply!

More specifically, if you'd like to come work in York with me I'm happy to support applications from awesome people 🙂

1/2 Just like social groups, human memory is organized in interconnected patterns. Activating one memory can trigger related ones, similar to how information spreads through a community. Could social sharing shape how memories are formed?

#PsychSciSky

Final repost: Our deadline is tomorrow for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity as part of an international collabration!

Senior Research Associate (RA2312) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2312) vacancy in University of East Anglia. School of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences Senior Research Associate Ref: RA...

Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June.

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂

Grateful to @yanafandakova.bsky.social for the wonderful days at the University of Trier, advancing our joint projects. Thanks to all students and staff who attended and asked great questions at my talk. Especially honoured to give the commencement speech at the Psychology Graduation in Trier.

We are starting a new major research project investigating the joint development of curiosity and metacognition in adolescents, where the Flowers lab will collaborate with @mjgruber.bsky.social 's lab at Univ. Cardiff, and Yana Fandakova at Univ. Trier !!! Open postdocs positions, see below 👇

Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence