APA PsycNet
After scrolling Twitter, it will take you a while to get back into “work mode”. Why is this the case? Our new work (out now in Psych Review), led by Ivan Grahek and Xiamin Leng, explores the costs of adjusting cognitive control to meet different goals:
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We also discuss how a tradeoff between stability and flexibility in terms of control can lead to joint increases in behavioral measures of stability and flexibility. This has big implications for how we interpret stability and flexibility at the level of behavior vs underlying mechanisms of control.
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Our key findings:
- Optimal tradeoffs depend on task demands
- Participants behave in line with normative predictions
- Adjustments of control are tracked by pupil size and posterior alpha power
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New preprint out!
What is the optimal balance between cognitive stability (maximizing performance, minimizing distraction) and flexibility (switching between tasks)?
We present a normative model that jointly optimizes stability vs flexibility and response speed vs accuracy during task switching.
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Neuro prof at Princeton, social media cynic.
Fascinated by the brain, what makes it work well and how to keep it working well as we age. Noradrenaline, locus coeruleus, heart rate variability, oscillatory dynamics, parasympathetic/sympathetic changes in aging. USC professor.
Professor of cognitive science, Ghent University. Cognitive control, reinforcement learning, fear conditioning, autism. https://users.ugent.be/~sbraem/
Assistant Professor at WUSTL. PI of the Control and Decision Making Lab.
a psychology research and teaching guy at McGill
research interest, mild-mannered personal interests
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Postdoctoral fellow at Artctic University of Norway; formerly MPI CBS, Humboldt, Ghent, and Duke University
External and internal attention; mind wandering; interoception and control over internal body
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, and head of Statistics and Data Analysis Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Cognitive psychologist. Interested in working memory, cognitive control, group cognition, and much more.
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Data scientist in Hamburg, Germany
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Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
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Postdoctoral researcher in the CoCoSys & Temporal
Attention Labs, Leiden University
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Asst. Prof.
Brain Modulation & Control Lab (https://bmclab.org)
Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research
Rutgers University
Interested in:
Cognitive control / working memory
Motivation
Neuromodulation
Brain criticality
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Control ● AI for Science & Automated Scientific Discovery ● Faculty @ Brown & Osnabrück ● Director of Autonomous Empirical Research Group ● Senior Schmidt Science Fellow
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cogsci.nl/smathot Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, attention, and pupillometry. Developer of OpenSesame and other open-source scientific software. Writer of short stories (suchwasnot.com) and non-fiction (Een wereld vol denkers).
Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
Assistant Prof at Leiden University | Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychology of Music
Academic nomad | Wandering neuroscientist | Climate worrier | Assistant Professor @ Leiden University, views very obviously mine | https://anneurai.net/
Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Director Institute Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, human brain and mind, attention, predictive processing, action, consciousness, meditation
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Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. Studying cognitive control, loving lots of other stuff.
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