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David McGovern
@dpmcgovern.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in School of Psychology, Dublin City University.
Teaching: Cognition, Perception, Behavioural Neuroscience Methods
Research: Sensory processing, multisensory perception, perceptual decision-making
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Very happy that our review article "Dual-process theory and decision-making in large language models" has been published in Nature Reviews Psychology, with Oliver Brady, Lili Zhang, Tomas Ward and David McGovern @dpmcgovern.bsky.social go.nature.com/3LGzbBx
go.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Dual-process theory and decision-making in large language models

Review by Oliver Brady, Paul Nulty, Lili Zhang, Tomás E. Ward & David P. McGovern

Web: go.nature.com/3LGzbBx
PDF: rdcu.be/ePY2w
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Huge thanks to @psychopy.org and especially @hirstrj.bsky.social ! After spending thousands on other tools with little support, Dr. Hirst solved all my technical problems within days. If you are using behavioral, eyetracking, and EEG systems in your lab, I recommend checking out PsychoPy.
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Could changes in eye sight and hearing mean a risk of dementia?
Piece by Nina Meret Zumbrunn, PhD candidate @dcupsychology.bsky.social, for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.
Read here: launch.dcu.ie/4oghZRP
#RTEBrainstorm
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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DRNI were very excited to attend the @alzheimersocirl.bsky.social fabulous DRATgon's Den research event yesterday. ECR's presentations & the quality of the research was outstanding, big congratulations to the winner & all who took part, and to the ASI for organising such a fun event!
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Could mental skill development be key to improving Irish soccer?
Piece by Jake Tiernan and Dr David McGovern @dpmcgovern.bsky.social of
@dcupsychology.bsky.social for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.
Read here: launch.dcu.ie/48T6Pxm
#RTEBrainstorm
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Principles for proper peer review
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Delighted to share our new paper in Behaviour Research Methods! 🎉

Web-based sound-induced flash illusion (SIFI) tasks reliably measure the temporal binding window of audiovisual integration.

📃 rdcu.be/eBhIl

📊Data/code: osf.io/ew7jm/
#openscience

Well done @dpmcgovern.bsky.social and coauthors💙
Assessing the reliability of an online measure of the temporal binding window of audiovisual integration
rdcu.be
August 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🤓 NEW PREPRINT!

📳 Delivering Tactile Stimuli Via Mobile Browsers: A Method for Multisensory Research

Highlights:
🌐 Behavioural validation using the Redundant Signals Effect
⏱️ Test timing accuracy and precision on mobile phones
🔓 Open materials

Questions + feedback welcome!

osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
July 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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In life, 3 things are certain: death, taxes, and decision-making variability🧠. Our review tinyurl.com/4dcwafc4 explores how computational models 💻 explain variability, their limits, and recent advances. A thread🧵👇

@redmondoconnell.bsky.social @neuromurphy.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove (not on Bluesky)
Disentangling sources of variability in decision-making - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Identifying the psychological and neurobiological processes underpinning intra-individual variations in choice behaviour presents a formidable challenge. In this Review, Duffy et al. discuss how algor...
www.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Want to do a fully funded PhD 🎓, straddling academia and industry, studying multi sensory perception 👀👂 and improving research tools 💻?

Come join us on a collaborative studentship led by Tom Otto (St Andrews psychology
📣 #PhD position announcement📣 (please share)

We're seeking applicants for a joint venture with University of St. Andrews (lead by Thomas Otto) exploring how we can optimise measures of #multisensory #perception for remote data collection.

Find out more here👇

https://buff.ly/3ZJk131
December 10, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Hey 👋 the deadline for submitting workshop proposals to #RLDM is fast approaching! We would especially love creative structures for workshops, like hackathons, debates or other traditional formats. Follow @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social for more updates!
December 3, 2024 at 12:39 PM