Maarten Boksem

Do we become less honest when we get tired? Let’s find out!

The neuroscience of misinformation: A research agenda The global spread of misinformation is undermining democracies worldwide. In this NeuroView, we explain how neuroscience can inform our basic understanding of what makes the brain susceptible to false...

The neuroscience of misinformation and ways to counter it
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What do tax cuts for the rich do?

They increase inequality.

They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.

"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

De markt beslist: hoe geld in de politiek de democratie uitholt - Joop - BNNVARA Opinie Elianne van Turennout over schimmige geldstromen naar politieke partijen als de VVD.

Opinie Elianne van Turennout: 'Zo tekent zich een onmiskenbaar patroon af: grote donaties aan de VVD, gevolgd door beleid dat opvallend perfect aansluit bij de belangen van de gevers'

Looking for a #postdoc Starting date is ASAP. Various backgrounds are appreciated #marketing #psychology #economics
The postdoc is expected to contribute to a project on developing climate risk (flooding risk) labels @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social

Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue

Feature Review by Mathias Pessiglione, Bastien Blain (@bastien-blain.bsky.social), Antonius Wiehler, & Shruti Naik

Free access before May 20: tinyurl.com/2va75b5j

It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching

Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

In 4 grafieken: hoe Nederland miljoenen extra mensen kan voeden, als we stoppen met de vee-industrie Politici van de BoerBurgerBeweging waarschuwen dat krimp van de veestapel de (internationale) voedselzekerheid bedreigt. Klopt dat wel? Uit een analyse van Follow the Money blijkt het tegenovergesteld...

Stel, we geven geen soja en graan meer aan ons vee, maar eten het zelf op.

Bij @ftm.nl maakte we een rekensommetje waarbij me de schellen van de ogen vielen: elke dag vernietigt het Nederlandse vee 56 miljard kilocalorieën. Genoeg om 25 miljoen mensen mee te voeden.

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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 🧠

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors.

As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

New tools help make neuroimaging accessible to more researchers Custom software packages, web-based applications and video tutorials make functional MRI concepts easier to grasp.

New tools help make neuroimaging accessible to more researchers | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

Kiezen tussen duur en duurzaam. 👇

Kom naar de staking!

🔴Leiden: 10 maart
🔴Utrecht: 11 maart
🔴Nijmegen: 13 maart
🔴Amsterdam: 17 maart
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Powerful Myths: Common Misconceptions About Statistical Power Lukas Lengersdorff and Claus Lamm discuss three misconceptions that stand in the way of an informed discussion.

@lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social & @clauslamm.bsky.social debunk 3 misconceptions about statistical power that could hinder meaningful research discussions.
#Stats #ResearchPractices

a monkey holding a smiley face a butterfly and an @ symbol Alt: a monkey holding a smiley face a butterfly and an @ symbol

I compared 22 identical climate-related posts on Threads vs Bluesky over the last 3 months, and the difference is shocking.

Normalized engagement on Threads dropped nearly 2/3 + my following dropped, while Bluesky engagement held steady + following quadrupled.

What’s driving this?

Read on! 🧵

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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

We believe that this work represents a significant step forward for the field of #consumerneuroscience by confirming the value of EEG-derived metrics in predicting marketing-relevant outcome measures.

In addition, we provide initial evidence that mental processes associated with understanding and comprehension may underlie this gamma response, suggesting that trailers with a clear narrative evoke a stronger gamma response which in turn predicts commercial success of the movie.

Across datasets, only EEG gamma activity was predictive of box office revenue, above and beyond characteristics of the movie and self-reported liking. Importantly, the predictive power of gamma generalizes to new movies: out-of-sample predictions improve significantly with gamma as a predictor.

In our new work we perform a systematic analysis of five independent datasets, testing all EEG metrics that have been associated with commercial success and included non-neural metrics that are known to affect commercial success of movies (e.g. genre, production budget, star power, etc.).

This was the first study revealing the potential of #EEG for what is called #neuroforecasting. Since then, there have been several papers reporting similar findings; however, the exact metrics that were found to be predictive differed across these studies.

This research is a follow-up of our 2015 paper in which we found that a specific component of the #EEG (gamma activity), as evoked in a small sample of participants watching movie trailers, was associated with how successful those movies would be at the box office.

Can #brain measures predict the success of #movies? New research says YES!

New paper in the Journal of Marketing Research: ‘Do EEG Metrics Derived from Trailers Predict the Commercial Success of Movies? A Systematic Analysis of Five Independent Datasets’ (doi.org/10.1177/0022...).

I guessed Bangladesh to be the country with the highest flood risk just to be reminded that there is a reason the Netherlands are named that way. Source: https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-countries-with-the-highest-flood-risk/

1/ Does climate activism work?

The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how

Here are some highlights
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The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior Everyone agrees that feelings and actions are intertwined, but cannot agree how. According to dominant models, actions are directed by estimates of va…

Adding this to my reading pile: "The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior"

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
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Mounting evidence suggests a role for beta rhythms in top-down control, including beta's close relationship with dopamine.
Cortical beta oscillations map to shared brain networks modulated by dopamine
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#neuroscience

Great list, would love to be on it 😎