Alejandro Gamba (he/him)
@alejogamba.bsky.social
A student of the brain💭, and life🍃. A soldier of climate change🌎, and educational change😎 PhD Student at U of Florida 😜 (He/him).
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Happy to share my first-ever pre-print !!!! 🚨 on the representational geometry across similarity properties using behavioral judgments, fMRI, and AI/CNNs models 🚨 !! 1/n🧵 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
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#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
fMRI Course
Instructors
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November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.
We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!
Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
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The next session of the MIT Consciousness Club is on Thursday 16, 12pm-1:30pm. Rachel Denison will present “Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception”. More information here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....
MIT Consciousness Club
The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...
sites.google.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The next session of the MIT Consciousness Club is on Thursday 16, 12pm-1:30pm. Rachel Denison will present “Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception”. More information here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....
Cool project involving distinctions on internal models between humans and AI through network analysis 👍
World models are a highly speculative topic in AI as well as in cognitive science. I’m excited to share my manuscript on investigating internal world models using imagination networks in humans and LLMs! 🧵1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
Internal World Models as Imagination Networks in Cognitive Agents
What is the computational objective of imagination? While classical interpretations suggest imagination is useful for maximizing rewards, recent findings challenge this view. In this study, we propose...
arxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Cool project involving distinctions on internal models between humans and AI through network analysis 👍
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Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
northwestern.zoom.us
October 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
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Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)
MIT Consciousness Club
The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...
sites.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)
Happy to share my first-ever pre-print !!!! 🚨 on the representational geometry across similarity properties using behavioral judgments, fMRI, and AI/CNNs models 🚨 !! 1/n🧵 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Happy to share my first-ever pre-print !!!! 🚨 on the representational geometry across similarity properties using behavioral judgments, fMRI, and AI/CNNs models 🚨 !! 1/n🧵 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Wonderful time of the year to enjoy #vss2025 !!! Here is my work on similarity judgments on different properties across the brain and AI. qr.me-qr.com/JE9EYZ5g (skip the adds to find the poster and a narrated summary!!)🎉
Love to see old (and make new) friends while learning from great minds !! 🤗🤩
Love to see old (and make new) friends while learning from great minds !! 🤗🤩
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May 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Wonderful time of the year to enjoy #vss2025 !!! Here is my work on similarity judgments on different properties across the brain and AI. qr.me-qr.com/JE9EYZ5g (skip the adds to find the poster and a narrated summary!!)🎉
Love to see old (and make new) friends while learning from great minds !! 🤗🤩
Love to see old (and make new) friends while learning from great minds !! 🤗🤩
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allllright it’s #vss2025 thread time!
our group has FOUR cool presentations at VSS this year! in chronological order ALL ON TUESDAY MORNING!!
a thread: 🧵👇
our group has FOUR cool presentations at VSS this year! in chronological order ALL ON TUESDAY MORNING!!
a thread: 🧵👇
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a crowd of people with the words `` save the date '' .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a crowd of people with the words `` save the date '' .
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May 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
allllright it’s #vss2025 thread time!
our group has FOUR cool presentations at VSS this year! in chronological order ALL ON TUESDAY MORNING!!
a thread: 🧵👇
our group has FOUR cool presentations at VSS this year! in chronological order ALL ON TUESDAY MORNING!!
a thread: 🧵👇
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Finally, the most exciting week of the year for vision science is here! #vss2025 #vss
Through our lab’s work and via collaborations, we have three presentations this year across a range of topics: mental imagery, the metacognition of face recognition, and some heavy psychophysical modeling. 1/6
Through our lab’s work and via collaborations, we have three presentations this year across a range of topics: mental imagery, the metacognition of face recognition, and some heavy psychophysical modeling. 1/6
The Subjectivity Lab
Interdisciplinary lab in Northeastern's Psychology Department researching visual perception, mental imagery, consciousness and metacognition.
subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu
May 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Important new paper on climate overshoot. Excellent team, fantastic work. And I despair. It's like it's come from another planet. Not the actual Earth which is barrelling ever faster to climate breakdown. What will it take for academics to be clear about this? www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Overshoot: A Conceptual Review of Exceeding and Returning to Global Warming of 1.5°C | Annual Reviews
Limited progress with mitigation makes it almost inevitable that global warming of 1.5°C will be exceeded. This realization confronts Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Chan...
www.annualreviews.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Important new paper on climate overshoot. Excellent team, fantastic work. And I despair. It's like it's come from another planet. Not the actual Earth which is barrelling ever faster to climate breakdown. What will it take for academics to be clear about this? www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....
Thanks to the @cnsmtg.bsky.social for a wonderful #CNS2025 full of great research and people. So glad to see old friends and meet up with new ones 🙌🙌 !!!
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thanks to the @cnsmtg.bsky.social for a wonderful #CNS2025 full of great research and people. So glad to see old friends and meet up with new ones 🙌🙌 !!!
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Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps...
It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT
It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT
OSF
osf.io
March 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps...
It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT
It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT
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My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition - Nature Communications
Measuring metacognitive ability is one of the enduring challenges in cognitive science. The current paper develops formal tests of the quality of different measures and assesses how current metrics pe...
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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History of the “peer review”: advisors, gatekeepers or neither?
“..the “referee system” did not exist before the nineteenth century and the term “peer review” was a creation of the late twentieth century.”
Credit for sharing @jbcarmody.bsky.social
Link: ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/19/g...
“..the “referee system” did not exist before the nineteenth century and the term “peer review” was a creation of the late twentieth century.”
Credit for sharing @jbcarmody.bsky.social
Link: ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/19/g...
a black and white photo of albert einstein sitting in a chair
ALT: a black and white photo of albert einstein sitting in a chair
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December 3, 2024 at 9:09 PM
History of the “peer review”: advisors, gatekeepers or neither?
“..the “referee system” did not exist before the nineteenth century and the term “peer review” was a creation of the late twentieth century.”
Credit for sharing @jbcarmody.bsky.social
Link: ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/19/g...
“..the “referee system” did not exist before the nineteenth century and the term “peer review” was a creation of the late twentieth century.”
Credit for sharing @jbcarmody.bsky.social
Link: ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/19/g...
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Are you familiar with the Motion Repulsion effect? Do you know how does it interact with working memory information about motion stimuli and its confidence ratings?
Check out our VSS poster in this link🧵1/3!! Eng
Whahttps://www.visionsciences.org/presentation/?id=1433
Check out our VSS poster in this link🧵1/3!! Eng
Whahttps://www.visionsciences.org/presentation/?id=1433
May 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Are you familiar with the Motion Repulsion effect? Do you know how does it interact with working memory information about motion stimuli and its confidence ratings?
Check out our VSS poster in this link🧵1/3!! Eng
Whahttps://www.visionsciences.org/presentation/?id=1433
Check out our VSS poster in this link🧵1/3!! Eng
Whahttps://www.visionsciences.org/presentation/?id=1433
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New revised SEP entry on "Neuroscience of Consciousness" just dropped! By yours truly and Wayne Wu @attninaction.bsky.social. Sections on introspection & report/no-report, metacognition and theories of consciousness saw most of the edits + lots of reference updates plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...
The Neuroscience of Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
April 4, 2024 at 11:34 PM
New revised SEP entry on "Neuroscience of Consciousness" just dropped! By yours truly and Wayne Wu @attninaction.bsky.social. Sections on introspection & report/no-report, metacognition and theories of consciousness saw most of the edits + lots of reference updates plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...
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New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep.
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Antidotes to cynicism creep in academia » Eiko Fried
There are good reasons for cynicism creep — being disheartened about academia — but it's important we don't give in. I provide some antidotes.
eiko-fried.com
March 5, 2024 at 12:46 PM
New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep.
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
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ICYMI:
I wrote a blog about all the things wrong in academia & science, and what gives me motivation and hope not to become too cynical.
I hope this normalizes feeling really bummed out about the situation & system, while simultanously providing paths forward.
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
I wrote a blog about all the things wrong in academia & science, and what gives me motivation and hope not to become too cynical.
I hope this normalizes feeling really bummed out about the situation & system, while simultanously providing paths forward.
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep.
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Antidotes to cynicism creep in academia » Eiko Fried
There are good reasons for cynicism creep — being disheartened about academia — but it's important we don't give in. I provide some antidotes.
eiko-fried.com
March 11, 2024 at 12:25 PM
ICYMI:
I wrote a blog about all the things wrong in academia & science, and what gives me motivation and hope not to become too cynical.
I hope this normalizes feeling really bummed out about the situation & system, while simultanously providing paths forward.
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
I wrote a blog about all the things wrong in academia & science, and what gives me motivation and hope not to become too cynical.
I hope this normalizes feeling really bummed out about the situation & system, while simultanously providing paths forward.
🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
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Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp
Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals
t.co
January 2, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp
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As part of the European project “CODE” on decision making and perceptual confidence, we are offering 2 PhD studentships, one fully in Paris and the other shared between Paris and Amsterdam. Deadline 29 February 2024.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182206
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182208
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182206
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182208
CODE
10 PhD Positions on Decision Confidence
Welcome to CODE! We are a network of 9 research labs located throughout Europe. Together, we aim to unravel the mechanisms of decision confidence.
Virtually ev...
sites.google.com
January 3, 2024 at 1:02 PM
As part of the European project “CODE” on decision making and perceptual confidence, we are offering 2 PhD studentships, one fully in Paris and the other shared between Paris and Amsterdam. Deadline 29 February 2024.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182206
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182208
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182206
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182208
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Distinct neural markers of evidence accumulation index metacognitive processing before and after simple visual decisions: http://osf.io/fvzn8/
November 14, 2023 at 12:38 AM
Distinct neural markers of evidence accumulation index metacognitive processing before and after simple visual decisions: http://osf.io/fvzn8/