@bobodeligong.bsky.social
Open to postdoc positions; PhD student majoring in cognitive psychology at University of California, Riverside; lyang147@ucr.edu
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Effects of Physical Effort on Temporal Processing
The interaction between temporal processing and physical effort plays a crucial role in our daily activities. The present study therefore assesses the effects of a simple(est) physical effort (i.e., i...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Why does time feel slower when lifting weights?
Our new study in JEP: Human Perception & Performance shows that physical effort speeds up internal timing, supporting the arousal hypothesis. Check it out here—I’d love to hear your thoughts!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Our new study in JEP: Human Perception & Performance shows that physical effort speeds up internal timing, supporting the arousal hypothesis. Check it out here—I’d love to hear your thoughts!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Important work revealing limitations of using LLMs as human surrogates.
Note, however, that even if LLMs' textual outputs were perfectly human-like, they would still be poor models of human cognition, as @lmesseri.bsky.social argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Note, however, that even if LLMs' textual outputs were perfectly human-like, they would still be poor models of human cognition, as @lmesseri.bsky.social argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Important work revealing limitations of using LLMs as human surrogates.
Note, however, that even if LLMs' textual outputs were perfectly human-like, they would still be poor models of human cognition, as @lmesseri.bsky.social argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Note, however, that even if LLMs' textual outputs were perfectly human-like, they would still be poor models of human cognition, as @lmesseri.bsky.social argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📣New paper alert!📣
Ever wonder how to model the temporal generalization task? Interested in cross-modal comparisons? Our paper (w/ the magnificent Nir Ofir!) is for you! @timingresforum.bsky.social this could make for a solid post-conference decompression read
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Ever wonder how to model the temporal generalization task? Interested in cross-modal comparisons? Our paper (w/ the magnificent Nir Ofir!) is for you! @timingresforum.bsky.social this could make for a solid post-conference decompression read
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
A drift-diffusion model of temporal generalization outperforms existing models and captures modality differences and learning effects - Behavior Research Methods
Multiple systems in the brain track the passage of time and can adapt their activity to temporal requirements. While the neural implementation of timing varies widely between neural substrates and beh...
link.springer.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
📣New paper alert!📣
Ever wonder how to model the temporal generalization task? Interested in cross-modal comparisons? Our paper (w/ the magnificent Nir Ofir!) is for you! @timingresforum.bsky.social this could make for a solid post-conference decompression read
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Ever wonder how to model the temporal generalization task? Interested in cross-modal comparisons? Our paper (w/ the magnificent Nir Ofir!) is for you! @timingresforum.bsky.social this could make for a solid post-conference decompression read
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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People are lazy--except when they're watching other people work hard.
My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
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My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
People are lazy--except when they're watching other people work hard.
My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
osf.io/preprints/ps...
My student Emily Zohar just published her first first-authored paper, and it reveals something surprising about effort and social norms. /1
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🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨
We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
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We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨
We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️
We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.
We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.
With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social
Thread ⬇️
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“The rotating waves act like herders that steer the cortex back to the correct computational path,” said study senior author Earl K. Miller, Picower Professor in The Picower Institute and MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. #neuroscience
Rotating brain waves keep your thoughts on track
picower.mit.edu/news/after-d...
@picowerinstitute.bsky.social #neuroscience
picower.mit.edu/news/after-d...
@picowerinstitute.bsky.social #neuroscience
After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task
To get back on track after a distraction, the cortex appears to employ a rotating traveling wave, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds.
picower.mit.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“The rotating waves act like herders that steer the cortex back to the correct computational path,” said study senior author Earl K. Miller, Picower Professor in The Picower Institute and MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. #neuroscience
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"Feature-based Filtering Determines Object-based Selection in the Attentional Boost Effect"
📢New paper from: Juyeon Joe, Yoongeol Yang, & Min-Shik Kim
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢New paper from: Juyeon Joe, Yoongeol Yang, & Min-Shik Kim
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Feature-based Filtering Determines Object-based Selection in the Attentional Boost Effect"
📢New paper from: Juyeon Joe, Yoongeol Yang, & Min-Shik Kim
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢New paper from: Juyeon Joe, Yoongeol Yang, & Min-Shik Kim
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses
in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visual brain rhythms also
serve a key function in the r...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
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Using intracranial recordings from 22 people, we show that hippocampal theta activity enables earlier decoding of the upcoming target, supporting automatic performance. This is specific to the hippocampus, with later involvement of ripple bursts.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Automaticity speeds the retrieval of instances from the human hippocampus | PNAS
Automatic processing allows humans to perform tasks with minimal effort following
learning. Although theories of automaticity propose that learning...
www.pnas.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Using intracranial recordings from 22 people, we show that hippocampal theta activity enables earlier decoding of the upcoming target, supporting automatic performance. This is specific to the hippocampus, with later involvement of ripple bursts.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Research reveals how people process information, how they acquire—and sometimes reject—knowledge, and how that compares to artificial intelligence systems’ abilities to do the same. @runnerteal.bsky.social #AI
Unearthing the Nature of Knowing
Research reveals how people process information, how they acquire—and sometimes reject—knowledge, and how that compares to artificial intelligence systems’ abilities to do the same.
www.psychologicalscience.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Research reveals how people process information, how they acquire—and sometimes reject—knowledge, and how that compares to artificial intelligence systems’ abilities to do the same. @runnerteal.bsky.social #AI
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Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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Really cool work! Liked the discussion on the issue of differentiating perception vs. recollection of time. A way out is via a phenomenal contrast. We did this to show that time contraction was due to perceptual boundaries and not memory (specific to our study) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A wrinkle in and of time: Contraction of felt duration with a single perceptual switch
The way we represent and perceive time has crucial implications for studying temporality in conscious experience. Contrasting positions posit that tem…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Really cool work! Liked the discussion on the issue of differentiating perception vs. recollection of time. A way out is via a phenomenal contrast. We did this to show that time contraction was due to perceptual boundaries and not memory (specific to our study) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
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Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science
While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social
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Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Check out our latest work led by @joeyzhou.bsky.social on alpha oscillatory networks in PLOS Biology!
➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?
➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?
Distinct alpha networks modulate different aspects of perceptual decision-making
Fluctuations in alpha-band neural oscillations influence whether we perceive faint stimuli, but how these oscillations relate to different perceptual processes is not clear. This study shows that alph...
journals.plos.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Check out our latest work led by @joeyzhou.bsky.social on alpha oscillatory networks in PLOS Biology!
➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?
➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?
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Understanding the flexibility of working memory: Compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
Understanding the flexibility of working memory: Compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations
The typical conception of working memory is a mechanism to temporarily hold multiple discrete objects in service of other cognitive tasks in an item-b…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Understanding the flexibility of working memory: Compositionality, generative processing, anchors and holistic representations
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroscience
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Neuronal correlations are a key mechanism governing computational capacity.
Neuronal correlations shape the scaling behavior of memory capacity and nonlinear computational capability of reservoir recurrent neural networks
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
#neuroscience
Neuronal correlations shape the scaling behavior of memory capacity and nonlinear computational capability of reservoir recurrent neural networks
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
#neuroscience
Neuronal correlations shape the scaling behavior of memory capacity and nonlinear computational capability of reservoir recurrent neural networks
Reservoir computing is a powerful framework for real-time information processing, characterized by its high computational ability and quick learning, with applications ranging from machine learning to...
journals.aps.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Neuronal correlations are a key mechanism governing computational capacity.
Neuronal correlations shape the scaling behavior of memory capacity and nonlinear computational capability of reservoir recurrent neural networks
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
#neuroscience
Neuronal correlations shape the scaling behavior of memory capacity and nonlinear computational capability of reservoir recurrent neural networks
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
#neuroscience
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New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
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Disambiguating dimensions of 'external' and 'internal' brain processes. Check our article in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social on concepts and open question in this burgeoning area of research, with @danielagresch.bsky.social and Kia Nobre from @brognition.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lygsbotq7...
October 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Disambiguating dimensions of 'external' and 'internal' brain processes. Check our article in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social on concepts and open question in this burgeoning area of research, with @danielagresch.bsky.social and Kia Nobre from @brognition.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lygsbotq7...
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The brain is all about dimensionality reduction.
The limits of falsifiability: Dimensionality, measurement thresholds, and the sub-Landauer domain in biological systems
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
The limits of falsifiability: Dimensionality, measurement thresholds, and the sub-Landauer domain in biological systems
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
Redirecting
doi.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The brain is all about dimensionality reduction.
The limits of falsifiability: Dimensionality, measurement thresholds, and the sub-Landauer domain in biological systems
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
The limits of falsifiability: Dimensionality, measurement thresholds, and the sub-Landauer domain in biological systems
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#neuroscience
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Online Now: No need to oppose metabolic and motivational theories
No need to oppose metabolic and motivational theories
After a long and intense day at work, you find yourself so exhausted that you refuse to drive and join your friends at their dinner party; instead, you indulge in fast food and easy entertainment at home. This is a typical case of cognitive fatigue, for which there is no consensual theory.
dlvr.it
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Online Now: No need to oppose metabolic and motivational theories
Why does time feel slower when lifting weights?
Our new study in JEP: Human Perception & Performance shows that physical effort speeds up internal timing, supporting the arousal hypothesis. Check it out here—I’d love to hear your thoughts!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Our new study in JEP: Human Perception & Performance shows that physical effort speeds up internal timing, supporting the arousal hypothesis. Check it out here—I’d love to hear your thoughts!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Effects of Physical Effort on Temporal Processing
The interaction between temporal processing and physical effort plays a crucial role in our daily activities. The present study therefore assesses the effects of a simple(est) physical effort (i.e., i...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Why does time feel slower when lifting weights?
Our new study in JEP: Human Perception & Performance shows that physical effort speeds up internal timing, supporting the arousal hypothesis. Check it out here—I’d love to hear your thoughts!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Our new study in JEP: Human Perception & Performance shows that physical effort speeds up internal timing, supporting the arousal hypothesis. Check it out here—I’d love to hear your thoughts!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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The two main hubs in the brain for the processing of human time perception have been identified: SMA and Insula. Here Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università di Roma and I provide the conceptual background in our review on 'How the body and brain process time'. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How the body and brain process time
Recent evidence from two independent meta-analyses reveals that subjective time is processed in the insular cortex alongside the supplementary motor a…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The two main hubs in the brain for the processing of human time perception have been identified: SMA and Insula. Here Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università di Roma and I provide the conceptual background in our review on 'How the body and brain process time'. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...