Lisa S. Scott 🧠
@lisascottbcd.bsky.social
Developmental cognitive neuroscience, vision, perception, attention, learning, EEG/ERP/ssVEP, eye tracking, infants. Professor and PI of UF🐊 BCD Lab: https://bcdlab.psych.ufl.edu
My opinions ≠UF/FL.
My opinions ≠UF/FL.
Bye clinical trials for experimental research? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments — spurring excitement and concern
Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach.
www.nature.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Bye clinical trials for experimental research? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a @fitngin.bsky.social working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research
@lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵
@lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵
Deep learning in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into everyday tasks and work environments. However, its adoption in medical image analys…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a @fitngin.bsky.social working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research
@lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵
@lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵
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Thrilled to share our paper on the formation of brain shape in human newborns, just out @natneuro.nature.com: tinyurl.com/2ty4ef43
Using #fractal analysis of #MRI data from the developing Human Connectome Project (lnkd.in/dxeHbJX6), we show that brain shape closely captures infant age and genetics ⬇️
Using #fractal analysis of #MRI data from the developing Human Connectome Project (lnkd.in/dxeHbJX6), we show that brain shape closely captures infant age and genetics ⬇️
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Thrilled to share our paper on the formation of brain shape in human newborns, just out @natneuro.nature.com: tinyurl.com/2ty4ef43
Using #fractal analysis of #MRI data from the developing Human Connectome Project (lnkd.in/dxeHbJX6), we show that brain shape closely captures infant age and genetics ⬇️
Using #fractal analysis of #MRI data from the developing Human Connectome Project (lnkd.in/dxeHbJX6), we show that brain shape closely captures infant age and genetics ⬇️
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Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Income insufficiency impacts early #brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach @PNAS.org
Income insufficiency impacts early #brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026.
SignificanceThis paper demonstrates the key role of adversity on the earliest stages of postnatal brain development. Data from the Baby Steps study, an ongoing longitudinal study collecting electroencephalography (EEG) and socioeconomic status related ...
dlvr.it
January 15, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Dressed in a spotted owl sweater handmade by his wife, ecologist Rocky Gutierrez explains why he thinks so many people share his love for owls. 🦉
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dressed in a spotted owl sweater handmade by his wife, ecologist Rocky Gutierrez explains why he thinks so many people share his love for owls. 🦉
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#FLORIDA AUTHOR E-BOOK DEAL ALERT: Bookseller & author @legroff.bsky.social brilliant novel MATRIX is only $1.99 for Kindle today. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Matrix: A Novel
Matrix: A Novel - Kindle edition by Groff, Lauren. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Matrix: A Novel.
www.amazon.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
#FLORIDA AUTHOR E-BOOK DEAL ALERT: Bookseller & author @legroff.bsky.social brilliant novel MATRIX is only $1.99 for Kindle today. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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We have longitudinal multimodal (EEG, MRI) datasets to richly characterize developmental plasticity and an interest in public health relevant prenatal factors (e.g. iron deficiency, prenatal stress) and postnatal factors: caregiving, music, and language experiences!
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
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November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We have longitudinal multimodal (EEG, MRI) datasets to richly characterize developmental plasticity and an interest in public health relevant prenatal factors (e.g. iron deficiency, prenatal stress) and postnatal factors: caregiving, music, and language experiences!
Reposted by Lisa S. Scott 🧠
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
soc.stanford.edu
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
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Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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First human newborn paper from my NSF CAREER Award! Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - with our amazing @umiamipsych.bsky.social team: Guangyu Zung, Yeojin Amy Ahn, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, Arushi Malik, @dmessinger.bsky.social doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - Behavior Research Methods
Automated behavioral measurement using machine learning is gaining ground in psychological research. Automated approaches have the potential to reduce the labor and time associated with manual behavio...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
First human newborn paper from my NSF CAREER Award! Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - with our amazing @umiamipsych.bsky.social team: Guangyu Zung, Yeojin Amy Ahn, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, Arushi Malik, @dmessinger.bsky.social doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Im very excited about this work out from our recent infant ssVEP study! Led by postdoc Maeve Boylan! After infants learn about objects while reading a book with a parent, their brains prioritize the processing of familiarity. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Competitive Cortical Prioritization Emerges for Trained Objects across the First Year of Life
Learning to detect and recognize a broad range of visual objects is a crucial developmental task during the first year of life. However, many of the neurophysiological changes underlying the emergence...
www.jneurosci.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Im very excited about this work out from our recent infant ssVEP study! Led by postdoc Maeve Boylan! After infants learn about objects while reading a book with a parent, their brains prioritize the processing of familiarity. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
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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?
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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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Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Developmental alterations in brain network asymmetry in 3- to 9-month infants with congenital sensorineural hearing loss
Early sensorineural hearing loss disrupts lateralization development of the brain network.
www.science.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“faculty & staff will become a more critical component of the college experience, providing increased individualized & group human interactions. Instead of spending 3 hours a week in a lecture hall, students have more direct engagement w/ a professor...” www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...
It’s The End Of College As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The radical changes that AI is bringing to higher education includes a paradigm shift that is unprecedented. Only institutions with agility will survive.
www.forbes.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“faculty & staff will become a more critical component of the college experience, providing increased individualized & group human interactions. Instead of spending 3 hours a week in a lecture hall, students have more direct engagement w/ a professor...” www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...
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Our new paper explains the #polarization of public health
Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health
From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health
From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
September 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our new paper explains the #polarization of public health
Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health
From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health
From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
Ok @uf forcing everyone back to work is making traffic horrible & parking impossible. Also everyone is angry because- traffic for an hour & 30 mins trying to park. Not a good plan: paying people to drive around angry on campus, when they could be peacefully & productively working at home.
August 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Ok @uf forcing everyone back to work is making traffic horrible & parking impossible. Also everyone is angry because- traffic for an hour & 30 mins trying to park. Not a good plan: paying people to drive around angry on campus, when they could be peacefully & productively working at home.
Me: coach posted a powerpoint presentation about volleyball rotations for you to look at.
12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation?
😬is this good or bad parenting?
12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation?
😬is this good or bad parenting?
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Me: coach posted a powerpoint presentation about volleyball rotations for you to look at.
12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation?
😬is this good or bad parenting?
12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation?
😬is this good or bad parenting?
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How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
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Over 2,000 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine write to Congress:
August 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Over 2,000 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine write to Congress:
