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Bobby Stojanoski

@bstojanoski.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Psychology. Ontario Tech University. Interested in neural mechanisms underlying social and cognitive development. Also basketball and tennis.

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Identifying ADHD Subtypes Based on Subclinical Autistic Traits, Behavioral and Emotional Symptoms, and Executive Function: https://osf.io/m7d4j

22.09.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isnโ€™t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). Weโ€™re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

18.09.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Social Interaction Style in Autism: A Narrative Review of Social Behaviors and Outcomes in Autistic and Neurotypical Interactions | Autism in Adulthood Social interaction difficulties are a defining feature of autism. Historically, research has concentrated on comparing the social behaviors of autistic and neurotypical individuals in cross-neurotype ...

I'm so excited to finally share work thatโ€™s been a couple of years in the making!
See our new paper on *social interactions in #autism*, co-authored with Isabel Dziobek, @antoniahamilton.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social ๐ŸŽ‰
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

17.09.2025 08:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ Hi Everyone! I'm accepting PhD students for the Fall 2026 cycle! Our lab topics include the developmental origins and elaboration of moral cognition/prosocial behavior, persistence, and optimism. More info below!!

11.09.2025 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
De Felice et al 2025: relational neuroscience, insights from hyperscanning

De Felice et al 2025: relational neuroscience, insights from hyperscanning

Flux 2025 symposium - is neural synchrony a developmental mechanism?

Flux 2025 symposium - is neural synchrony a developmental mechanism?

Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. ๐Ÿง  โšก๏ธ ๐Ÿง  #flux2025

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

06.09.2025 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Welcome to Dublin! From winding cobblestone lanes to literary pubs and centuries of innovation, Dublin blends rich history with vibrant culture. We canโ€™t wait for you to experience it all during Flux 2025 โ€“ excellent lineup of speakers, and our 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops, and more! #Flux2025

03.09.2025 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now officially out:

"Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models"

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

(by Hu, Sosa, & me)

18.08.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
With more opportunities for diverse interactions, little is known about how social interactions involving people of different socioeconomic status (SES) may unfold. We investigated social-attunement patterns in dyadic interactions involving SES. Unacquainted adults recruited from a community in the United States interacted with similar-or-different-SES partners in the lab ( N = 130 dyads). Attunement was assessed throughout the interaction by examining physiological linkage โ€”how much a personโ€™s physiological change is predicted by anotherโ€™s physiological change over time. Overall, low-SES participants showed stronger physiological linkageโ€”indicating greater attunementโ€”to partners across SES. Participants also appeared more comfortable when interacting with low-SES partners. There were no SES differences in dominance during the conversation. After the interaction, participants reported liking similar-SES partners more than different-SES partners. These patterns suggest that during interactions, lower-SES individuals are more other-focused than high-SES individuals, and in-group preference prevails. We note limitations in the racial representation of our sample.

With more opportunities for diverse interactions, little is known about how social interactions involving people of different socioeconomic status (SES) may unfold. We investigated social-attunement patterns in dyadic interactions involving SES. Unacquainted adults recruited from a community in the United States interacted with similar-or-different-SES partners in the lab ( N = 130 dyads). Attunement was assessed throughout the interaction by examining physiological linkage โ€”how much a personโ€™s physiological change is predicted by anotherโ€™s physiological change over time. Overall, low-SES participants showed stronger physiological linkageโ€”indicating greater attunementโ€”to partners across SES. Participants also appeared more comfortable when interacting with low-SES partners. There were no SES differences in dominance during the conversation. After the interaction, participants reported liking similar-SES partners more than different-SES partners. These patterns suggest that during interactions, lower-SES individuals are more other-focused than high-SES individuals, and in-group preference prevails. We note limitations in the racial representation of our sample.

Socioeconomic Status in Social Interactions

"Low-SES individuals exhibited greater attunement to others and elicited greater comfort in others than high-SES individuals, but impressions were formed in line with homophily effects."

doi.org/10.1177/0956...

#SocialPsyc #Sociology

20.07.2025 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience,

Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps

17.07.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hi world - its been a hard year with #cancer meaning I missed out lots of fun things. It would mean a lot if you checked out my new album of tracks. Out on all platforms including #Soundcloud (free). Let me know which tracks you like and a special prize if you work out the two levels to the project

17.07.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sharing the Worldโ€”A Social Aspect of Consciousness Abstract. Moving through our environment generates multiple changes in my sensations. But I do not experience the environment as changing. My conscious perceptual experience is of a stable environment...

Here is is!
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

09.07.2025 10:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...

Excited to โœจshareโœจ that our paper on โœจsharingโœจ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

03.07.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of EEG microstate networks over the first two years of life: A multi-cohort longitudinal study Abstract. Microstates, brief instances of distinct spatial topographies measured with electroencephalography (EEG), offer a novel approach to studying whole-brain network dynamics at a sub-second scal...

We're excited to share this multi-cohort, multi-continental longitudinal effort to characterize early largescale brain network dynamics over the first 2 years of life with EEG microstates out now at @imagingneurosci.bsky.social!
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

30.06.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social โ€ช

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

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Hereโ€™s why it matters ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿผ

29.06.2025 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 158    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Very cool work!

23.05.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great news! Congrats, Nikola!

22.05.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to announce that we received a $2.8M grant from @braincanada.bsky.social to continue our work on NeuroLibre through the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (โ€ช@conp-pcno.bsky.socialโ€ฌ) 1/2

20.05.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Updated version of this paper now published in Cerebral Cortex ๐Ÿฅณ doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

@sarahhenderson.bsky.social is on a roll ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #memory #aging

20.05.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal Nature Neuroscience - The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal ๐Ÿง  ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read here:
rdcu.be/ek01F

07.05.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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๐Ÿ™Œ Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science:
How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.nature.com/articles/s41... ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡

25.04.2025 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 176    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Congrats, Karen! Well deserved!

25.04.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What autism taught us about our social nature.
Frith & Frith, Current Directions in Psychology journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

10.04.2025 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Very cool. We've been thinking a lot about adversity and social cognition lately. Can't wait to dive into this.

10.04.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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08.04.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
US Applicant Week

Grad student applicants from the US:
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

Stable, awesome environment!!

07.04.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very cool!

27.03.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings ๐Ÿง 

26.03.2025 01:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 181    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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How the brain uses โ€˜building blocksโ€™ to navigate social interactions Our brains use basic โ€˜building blocksโ€™ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Our brains use basic โ€˜building blocksโ€™ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by @uclpals.bsky.social researchers.

17.03.2025 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

New paper out at @naturehumbehav.bsky.social!

This is the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted into how people think about relationships: a true tour de force! We identify 5 dimensions and 3 categories that organize relationship concepts. Proud to have made a (small) contribution to it!

13.03.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Homepage - openRxiv openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

11.03.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2573    ๐Ÿ” 851    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

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