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Caitlin Baten
@caitiebaten.bsky.social
PhD student @ University of Connecticut
@acornlab.bsky.social
Attention, development, mental health, personalized neuroscience 🧠
https://appliedcognitionlab.psychology.uconn.edu
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Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in!
tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity

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*can this be a thing??
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
So happy to be a part of such an amazing team of scientists 🥳
Introducing the Applied Cognition and peRsonalized Neuroscience (ACORN) Lab at UConn, led by Dr. Arielle Keller!

Since launching in 2024, we’ve grown into a thriving team exploring cognitive, clinical, and developmental neuroscience using personalized approaches.

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October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Can meditation be understood as systematic mental training?

Despite the obvious appeal of thinking of meditation training like a workout for the mind, as the gym is for muscles, and its wide usage across communities practicing and researching meditation...
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence.

Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...
September 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Advanced meditation ushers in incredible new possibilities for the science of consciousness.

In the first-ever fMRI study of Extended Cessation (EC), for which we’ve just preprinted, my colleagues and I examine this advanced meditative event—where consciousness is deliberately switched off and...
September 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

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The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes
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August 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM