Joel Snyder

Come talk to me , that’s my specialty 🤪. You can even borrow my free subjects!

yes, I agree that interoceptive processing in the insula could be a link between these things, though it seems there's surprisingly very little research on the neural correlates of absorption experiences or trait absorption.

I encouraged my students to be the foremost expert on how all the stuff in my lab works. That way, I have more time to supervise the conceptual design and interpretation aspects of their studies, give them *timely* feedback on writing, and write grants to pay for all the broken EEG electrodes.

Quantifying funding sources across neuroscience labs We want to hear from you about the sources of funding for your research.

Calling all PIs! @thetransmitter.bsky.social wants to understand the diverse funding sources that support your neuroscience research. Complete this survey and let us know: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/quan...

#neuroskyence

Theoretical and empirical advances in understanding musical rhythm, beat and metre - Nature Reviews Psychology Rhythmic elements including beat and metre are integral to human experiences of music. In this Review, Snyder and colleagues discuss leading theories of rhythm perception and synthesize relevant behav...

That's interesting! Are there any things published yet about this merger? I recently published about a possible merger of dynamical systems and predictive coding theories in music perception, at least in terms of the neuroanatomy they assume. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Here's the target article, which I truly appreciate for encouraging me to learn more about perception and cognition in #fish and #cephalopods:

I wrote a commentary (mostly) disagreeing with the thought-provoking @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social BBS paper about consciousness arising during the transition of animals from sea to land.
#consciousness #neuroscience #evolution

Great example of the importance of construct validity in neuroscience!

Fascinating figure at the cogsci biz meeting this morning: because CSS owns their two journals (Cognitive Science and topiCS), they get a ton of revenue from the publisher, on the order of a half mil per year

This is so much money that they can run huge conferences at a loss, in perpetuity

The Frequency of “Brilliant” and “Genius” in Teaching Evaluations Predicts the Representation of Women and African Americans across Fields Women and African Americans—groups targeted by negative stereotypes about their intellectual abilities—may be underrepresented in careers that prize brilliance and genius. A recent nationwide survey o...

And apparently this leaks into teaching evaluations

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines General opinions about talent versus effort hold sway over representation of women in academic departments. [Also see Perspective by Penner]

I've always found this finding to be a pretty compelling explanation of gender balance in different fields.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Several widely used computational tools developed by psychologists (or very adjacent fields), e.g., multidimensional scaling (Roger Shepard and others), independent component analysis (Field/Olshausen, Bell/Sejnowski).

Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under?

Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413

Two neuroscience faculty positions @uoknightcampus.bsky.social

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How to account for publication bias in reviews/meta-analysis?

Also, so many sociological questions, e.g., how to make sure adversarial collaborations results are interpreted honestly; and how to get neuroscience to tackle repl/repr issues, esp because data are complex and expensive to collect.

Screenshot of the beginning of an old article by Penfield and Faulk on the insula.

What a poetic way to refer to the insular cortex!
#neuroscience #psychology #neurology

Reflections on adversarial collaboration from the adversaries: was it worth it? - Theory and Society There is much enthusiasm, in principle, for adversarial collaborations (ACs), a scientific conflict resolution technique that encourages investigators with

TWCF grantee Cory Clark from @upenn.edu surveyed scholars who had engaged in #AdversarialCollaborations; ACs often save time during peer review, result in higher-quality research, & most felt they improved understanding in their field and would try ACs again.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

University of Michigan Psychology is hiring and invites applications for a tenure-track open rank faculty position, leveraging the latest generative AI models and methods in studying human cognition. apply.interfolio.com/169170

Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I recently published a short comment on an editorial in Nature, and they edited my draft to include a double negative, and it gave me such perverse pleasure I had no inclination to point out that it should be corrected.

Last opportunity to reproduce/replicate a study published @nathumbehav.nature.com. This is an official collaboration with NHB. All authors of completed reports will be included as coauthors to our meta-paper to be submitted to NHB this Fall.

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Continuous ratings are common in studies of musical emotion, not sure if that's of interest though, e.g.:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Interesting! I'm curious if you think it would be a different capacity limit if you had to imagine the colors of otherwise visible gray-scale objects? Do you know of any studies like that?

Predictive coding: a more cognitive process than we thought? In predictive coding (PC), higher-order brain areas generate predictions that are sent to lower-order sensory areas. Top-down predictions are compared with bottom-up sensory data, and mismatches evoke...

This seems important, about "prediction errors" looking rather different when measured using action potentials.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

I’ve had a very similarly positive experience editing @jephpp.bsky.social

Awesome to hear I’m not alone in having a high regard for society publications!

Auditory researchers: ARO is accepting nominations for four different awards for those at early and established career stages.

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Bar graphs showing recent rise in number of publications on musical chills, ASMR, and misophonia.

Research on three auditory emotional experiences (musical chills, ASMR, and misophonia) has grown very rapidly in recent years!
#emotion #ASMR #misophonia #music #psychology #neuroscience

Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social

I for one am very happy you are working on consciousness. Your papers are consistently some of the clearest and most thought-provoking on the topic.