Lior Abramson

"Not on our behalf. Harming U.S. Universities does not protect Jewish people"

Hadn’t found an important use for my first blue-sky “tweet”… but then all our training grants were taken. @tristansyates.bsky.social wrote what I’m feeling quite eloquently

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Thrilled to share our new perspective on "Attachment as Prediction" published in Current Directions for Psychological Science!

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Growth-Charts: Why One-Size Doesn’t Fit All When I was pregnant, the doctors told me that my daughter was “too small for her gestational age.” Naturally, I was worried, but I also found it strange that they didn’t bother to ask m…

#moms #motherhood #fatherhood

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Compared with previous research, the two groups of children were relatively more homogeneous in age, caregiving switches, and basic physical raring conditions, suggesting any difference between the groups may stem from differences in early caregiving and attachment consistency.

Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic This study examined if considerably different caregiving experiences in infancy influence socio–emotional development later in childhood. We included children aged 6–9 years who were, immediately a...

Early caregiving consistency really matters! In a new paper, Petra Winnette and I find that foster care in the first year (compared with institutions) protects against development of behavioral problems in childhood. Importantly...

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2025 SoNeAt Lab fNIRS hyperscanning workshop flyer

I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February.

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Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!

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Super exciting preprint alert, just for the holidays! Ever wonder why we ask questions? Over the past year, my stellar student @tuvalraz.bsky.social and I have been working on a comprehensive review on human question asking which can now be found at tinyurl.com/mrxfh2hs

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Just read this interesting perspective and am still processing the empirical and theoretical meanings of it. I have a feeling this paper is going to make some noise...