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Arjen Stolk

@stolkarjen.bsky.social

Cognitive neuroscientist studying how interacting minds meet. Mutual Understanding Lab ‪ www.MutualUnderstanding.nl

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Challenging the Assumption That Autistic People Lack a Theory of Mind One of the most widespread assumptions about autistica people is that they lack a theory of mind—that they lack or have marked difficulty with “attributing mental states to oneself and others, also kn...

www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

10.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our next MTS Guest Speaker is @stolkarjen.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth! Join us Monday (10/13) for "Building a Shared Conceptual Space" - examining the extreme flexibility of selecting and interpreting signals. Details in the flyer!

09.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We are hiring at Emory Psychology in Developmental!

Come join a wonderful department in a great city ☀️

apply.interfolio.com/173594

07.10.2025 18:50 — 👍 17    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Randolph is fantastic, and this will be an incredible opportunity to work on cutting edge science! Definitely consider applying

06.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
codec lab

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

06.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 54    🔁 47    💬 2    📌 2
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Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation

🐘 Do elephants know when we're looking at them?

A new study shows that Asian elephants can recognise human visual attention by reading both body and face orientation.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #AnimalBehaviour 🧪

03.10.2025 06:42 — 👍 59    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.

03.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 47    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 2
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New ad for an open rank position in Psychology at Cornell. That Human Bonding course seems very popular! May be a good fit for a relationship scientist out there. Below is a snippet of the job ad.

01.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

Got it, sorry to hear

26.09.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn't "gezellig" about the highest goal humans can aspire to? ;) (forgive my vrimibo mood)

26.09.2025 22:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I feel ya

24.09.2025 20:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

... this convergence extends to new linguistic referents and reshapes individuals’ local semantic representations. An elegant demonstration of how meaning is co-constructed in dialogue; definitely making its way into my course materials

23.09.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social

23.09.2025 18:00 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Human single-neuron activity is modulated by intracranial theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala Firing rate analyses revealed neurons throughout the hippocampus, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex in humans that exhibited heterogeneous responses to intracranial theta b...

Excited to share our new eLife paper from our lab's first Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Justin Campbell! In this paper, Justin explored the effects of direct electrical stimulation to the human amygdala on single-unit activity throughout the brain. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

22.09.2025 19:55 — 👍 36    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

15.09.2025 18:57 — 👍 72    🔁 48    💬 2    📌 0
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

08.09.2025 20:57 — 👍 39    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 0

Happy my abstract was accepted to #IEEE #NER25! Looking forward to sharing my work on "An integrated platform for identifying and targeting neural biomarkers of reward processing: Towards adaptive deep brain stimulation for mood in Parkinson’s disease" with the #neurotech #BCI #iBCI community

09.09.2025 23:49 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1

05.09.2025 16:18 — 👍 78    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 2
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#CallforExpressionofInterest
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

📅Deadline: September 14, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy
🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy

@szymanikjakub.bsky.social

04.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!

Links below:

Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

03.09.2025 21:35 — 👍 48    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 1
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This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
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Only two of them issued press releases in […]

03.09.2025 12:31 — 👍 79    🔁 114    💬 6    📌 5
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

21.08.2025 18:50 — 👍 177    🔁 169    💬 2    📌 7
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fMRI Course Instructors

Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

23.07.2025 18:24 — 👍 51    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 1
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Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

09.06.2025 19:59 — 👍 30    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 2
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📢 BottiniLab is hiring!

Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).

🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw

#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs

09.06.2025 08:25 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

21.05.2025 13:46 — 👍 40    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1
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🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

29.04.2025 05:59 — 👍 168    🔁 64    💬 5    📌 5

Joint Epistemic Engineering in Language Use and Acquisition: https://osf.io/8zycd

18.04.2025 16:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fantastic news, Gus -- looking forward to having you on board and seeing all the great things you'll do!

10.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

08.04.2025 23:29 — 👍 56    🔁 63    💬 2    📌 1

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