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Thérèse Collins
@theresecollins.bsky.social
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Professor of cognitive science at Univ. Paris Cité Integrative Neuroscience & Cognition Centre (CNRS)
Vision, perception, eye movements, psychophysics, EEG
https://sites.google.com/view/collinslab
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theresecollins.bsky.social
Science is a machine for motivating disputatious humans to carry out tedious measurements & perform costly & time-consuming experiments that they would otherwise not care to undertake.
…
And so they do, w/unfettered enthusiasm.
- M Strevens, The Knowledge Machine

Best job description I ever read 👍
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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canmertdoit.bsky.social
The first publication of my PhD is finally here!

Super proud to share this with my supervisor @theresecollins.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1167/jov....
Attractive and repulsive history effects in categorical and continuous estimates of orientation perception | JOV | ARVO Journals
doi.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
Master in Cognitive Science #cogsci run by Univ Paris Cite & Sorbonne U is open for application for the 2926-2027 academic year.

Tracks:
#CogPsych #linguistics #philosophy #computational #neuroscience #neuroai

Internships available in dozens of Parisian labs

100% English
Application | cog-SUP
cog-sup.fr
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
theresecollins.bsky.social
Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif:

Jeudi 4 décembre 12:15-13:15:

Céline Paeye (Université Paris Cité)
Influences des Saccades Oculaires sur la Perception Visuelle et Auditive : Une question de motricité ?

Infos & lien zoom:
Collectif Cognitif
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December 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
New academic year, new series of seminars from the francophone #cogpsych community Le Collectif Cognitif.

Join us en ligne à partir de novembre:
Collectif Cognitif
sites.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
The usual “what is psychology?” to a new cohort of Psych 101 students. (With the cover of James’ Principles of Psychology” on the slide!)
Just goes to show that everyone thinks they know what #psychology is, but no one can really define it … (yet!)
A blackboard with keywords related to psychology generated by beginner students
September 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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lauradugue.bsky.social
Around 80 M1 across the 6 tracks and 65 M2 students, we are proud to welcome the new 2025-2026 #cog-SUP cohort!

Master in Cognitive Science from @upcite.bsky.social and @sorbonne-universite.fr
cog-SUP students and directors
September 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
theresecollins.bsky.social
As #ECVP2025 wraps up, I’m delighted that #ECVP2028 in Paris was accepted at the Business Meeting! ECVP will meet again before but the Parisian organizing committee is already planning an unforgettable 50th anniversary!
A Mucha-style painting showing the Eiffel Tower at sunset with ECVP 50 2028 Paris written
August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
I am having waaaaay too much fun preparing a class on representation in #cogsci
Talking about the shift from 1st-to 2nd-order isomorphism from Aristotle et al to Berkeley et al.; what is represented is not external objects but internal relations…
Here is a chatGPT image made from this prompt:
a philosopher in 18th century portrait style. His head is open like in anatomical art, revealing not a brain but the Earth, incl. detailed objects symbolizing human activity
August 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
2nd annual meeting of the French #cogpsych community in Dieppe, Normandy.
Great fun to co-organize with @gaenplancher.bsky.social and François Maquestiaux!
#collectifcognitif2025
Group photo of Collectif Cognitif 2025
July 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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cognitations.bsky.social
EP #10 | @theresecollins.bsky.social recommends viewing some cool visual illusions (and illusion contests) and Moby Dick - we leave it to you to find out the link between cognitive science and Moby Dick

www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/in... ; illusionoftheyear.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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amiyake.bsky.social
If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!
amiyake.bsky.social Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · May 29
I teach an undergrad cognitive psychology class. I've been thinking about assembling useful teaching resources (demos, videos, etc.) from other cogpsy instructors & sharing them in a single place. If there's enough interest here, I'll make a separate post & ask you to share your favorite materials.
May 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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mamassian.bsky.social
"As appealing as they can be, Large Language Models are as useful to scientific research as microwaves are to fine
cuisine."

doi.org/10.1177/0301...
Using AI for peer reviewing is like using a microwave to reheat an old meal - Pascal Mamassian, 2025
doi.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
theresecollins.bsky.social
Had a great time participating in this event on AI & Psychology - great cross-talk between clinical psych & #CogPsych
May 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
I need more time to think
ecoinvasions.bsky.social Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · May 23
"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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achetverikov.bsky.social
New preprint! Serial dependence is assumed to be attractive, but some studies consistently show repulsion. We tried to replicate a surprising repulsive serial bias that switches to an attractive one when people get distracted during the memory maintenance. It worked! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
a screenshot of the preprint first page, with the text: Between repulsion and attraction in serial biases: Replication of Chen & Bae, 2024 Juni B. Akselberg, Sara B. Cardona, Mikkel Dybvad, Lise Martine Karlstad, Malin Langemyr, Ingrid A. Mellingsæter-Jokic, Mats K. K. Moe, Amalie C. Solvang, and Andrey Chetverikov 1 Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen 2 Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen Abstract What you see depends on what you have seen before, and commonly your perception is drawn toward the past. Such attractive biases, known as serial dependence, are well established for many visual features. Interestingly, Chen and Bae (2024, Cognition) recently reported a repulsive serial bias in a pointing direction estimation task that switched to an attractive one in the presence of a distracting task. At the same time, an analysis of response trajectories revealed a repulsive bias during response execution, irrespective of the condition. These surprising findings prompted us to attempt a replication. We confirmed the main findings of Chen and Bae. However, we also demonstrated that the overall direction and magnitude of the bias are relatively stable for a given observer, regardless of the condition. Furthermore, we found that already the very first moment in the response trajectory differed between conditions, showing a predominantly attractive bias for trials that ended with attraction. The results confirm the robustness of the original findings and pose a challenge for a simple Bayesian model of serial dependence, highlighting the need for computational models that can explain both attractive and repulsive biases. Keywords: serial dependence, bias, direction estimation, orientation, visual working memory, Stroop, attraction, repulsion, mouse tracking, stimulus history effect, perceptual decision-making, replication
May 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
theresecollins.bsky.social
#vss2025 is about science and networking and meeting up with friends, old and new.
I always enjoyed the birds, they bring back fond memories of birding with Josh Wallman. I was an amateur birder to his exquisite expertise…
He is sorely missed!
Josh Wallman with grey parrot Pelican at Saint Pete’s beach
May 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
Repulsion, attraction, serial dependence, adaptation…
Confused?
Good thing @canmertdoit.bsky.social cleared that up for us at #vss2025 with his awesome poster.

You can also find his preprint here:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
Serial dependence is feature-tuned to object categories

PhD candidate Pierre Costa presenting our work at #vss2025
May 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
theresecollins.bsky.social
Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif:

Mardi 6 mai 12h15-13h15 (h de Paris)
François Quesque (Univ Paris Nanterre)

Variations interculturelles de la cognition sociale

Infos & lien visio:
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May 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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lauradugue.bsky.social
🚨New article from the #DuguéLab in #PLOS_Computational_Biology, led by @lgrabot.bsky.social! We developed a new model-based neuroimaging approach to study Traveling Waves in visual cortex using MEG-EEG.
@erc.europa.eu

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Traveling waves in the human visual cortex: An MEG-EEG model-based approach
Author summary Brain oscillations, thought to be crucial for many cognitive processes, might actually be waves that travel across the brain’s surface. Understanding these traveling waves is notoriousl...
journals.plos.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
theresecollins.bsky.social
The Trump budget cuts to Harvard are ~= the total budget the French government gives to ALL universities & higher Ed in France…
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 31
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it was reviewing billions in federal grants to Harvard, accusing the school of allowing antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus.
Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard
The administration has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants and contracts at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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lauradugue.bsky.social
#cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by @upcite.bsky.social and @sorbonne-universite.fr! Jérôme Iste, Talia Sander and Joaquín Schlotthauer from the first cog-SUP class is telling you all about it!

More info: cog-sup.fr

www.linkedin.com/posts/cog-su...
cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by… | cog-SUP
cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université! Jérôme Iste, Talia Sander and Joaquín Schlotthauer from the first cog-SUP class is t...
www.linkedin.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jbarbosa.org
This guy is speaking at 'legendary Piano Vache bar 🍺' this Friday at 5pm (one free drink included!)
April 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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dclode.bsky.social
Writing is thinking. We get students to write so that they learn how to think and use their brains. Using LLMs to do your work is like trying to be an athlete by getting someone else to do your training for you.
rohanmaitzen.bsky.social Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · Mar 24
What is the point of what we do if the interactions are not authentic? It is evident that students are increasingly turning to LLMs to "help" them do their work, with such dreary results - from handwaving generalizations that are rhetorically fluent but vacuous to outright hallucinations.
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM