Media Neuroscience Lab
@medianeuro.bsky.social
The Media Neuroscience Lab promotes research and teaching at the intersection of media psychology, technology, and neuroscience | https://medianeuroscience.org
🎮 New on Channel 3 (ABC KEYT) this Wednesday at 6pm PST:
A new UCSB study finds that video game addiction in teens often stems from underlying mental health issues — not the games themselves. #gamingdisorder #mentalheath #videogames
A new UCSB study finds that video game addiction in teens often stems from underlying mental health issues — not the games themselves. #gamingdisorder #mentalheath #videogames
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
🎮 New on Channel 3 (ABC KEYT) this Wednesday at 6pm PST:
A new UCSB study finds that video game addiction in teens often stems from underlying mental health issues — not the games themselves. #gamingdisorder #mentalheath #videogames
A new UCSB study finds that video game addiction in teens often stems from underlying mental health issues — not the games themselves. #gamingdisorder #mentalheath #videogames
“Why is my teen addicted to video games?”
Our new study in JAMA Network Open shows that psychopathology is a key driver--not an outcome of gaming disorder!
Depression, anxiety, ADHD, and social challenges may underlie gaming disorder.
Treat the root, not just the game. 🎮🧠
#commsky #psychsci #gaming
Our new study in JAMA Network Open shows that psychopathology is a key driver--not an outcome of gaming disorder!
Depression, anxiety, ADHD, and social challenges may underlie gaming disorder.
Treat the root, not just the game. 🎮🧠
#commsky #psychsci #gaming
August 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Did you meet the media neuroscience lab at #ica25 ?
@b-wheeler.bsky.social
@musamalik.bsky.social
@kyliewoodman.bsky.social
Drop a like or comment who you met and we will give you a follow!
P.S. All three of these brilliant researchers are going on the job market this year!
@b-wheeler.bsky.social
@musamalik.bsky.social
@kyliewoodman.bsky.social
Drop a like or comment who you met and we will give you a follow!
P.S. All three of these brilliant researchers are going on the job market this year!
June 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Did you meet the media neuroscience lab at #ica25 ?
@b-wheeler.bsky.social
@musamalik.bsky.social
@kyliewoodman.bsky.social
Drop a like or comment who you met and we will give you a follow!
P.S. All three of these brilliant researchers are going on the job market this year!
@b-wheeler.bsky.social
@musamalik.bsky.social
@kyliewoodman.bsky.social
Drop a like or comment who you met and we will give you a follow!
P.S. All three of these brilliant researchers are going on the job market this year!
🎉 Congratulations to former lab member Dr. Sungbin Youk on winning a Top Paper award at @icacsab.bsky.social!
His research used multifaceted analytic approaches to explore how brain activity can help us understand and predict donation behaviors in response to Singapore PSA videos #ica25
His research used multifaceted analytic approaches to explore how brain activity can help us understand and predict donation behaviors in response to Singapore PSA videos #ica25
June 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
🎉 Congratulations to former lab member Dr. Sungbin Youk on winning a Top Paper award at @icacsab.bsky.social!
His research used multifaceted analytic approaches to explore how brain activity can help us understand and predict donation behaviors in response to Singapore PSA videos #ica25
His research used multifaceted analytic approaches to explore how brain activity can help us understand and predict donation behaviors in response to Singapore PSA videos #ica25
🎉 Congratulations to @fhopp.bsky.social on winning @icacsab.bsky.social’s Rising Star Award!
Dr. Hopp, PI of the Moral Computing Lab at ZPID and former MNL member, continues to shape the field through rigorous and high-quality science. We’re so proud!
Dr. Hopp, PI of the Moral Computing Lab at ZPID and former MNL member, continues to shape the field through rigorous and high-quality science. We’re so proud!
June 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
🎉 Congratulations to @fhopp.bsky.social on winning @icacsab.bsky.social’s Rising Star Award!
Dr. Hopp, PI of the Moral Computing Lab at ZPID and former MNL member, continues to shape the field through rigorous and high-quality science. We’re so proud!
Dr. Hopp, PI of the Moral Computing Lab at ZPID and former MNL member, continues to shape the field through rigorous and high-quality science. We’re so proud!
We hope you had the opportunity to swing by and see @b-wheeler.bsky.social 's TOP STUDENT POSTER!
If you didn't get to see it check out the poster below ⬇️⬇️
If you didn't get to see it check out the poster below ⬇️⬇️
June 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We hope you had the opportunity to swing by and see @b-wheeler.bsky.social 's TOP STUDENT POSTER!
If you didn't get to see it check out the poster below ⬇️⬇️
If you didn't get to see it check out the poster below ⬇️⬇️
One final presentation to go at #ICA25! @b-wheeler.bsky.social will be sharing our emerging research on online hate and bullying!
June 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One final presentation to go at #ICA25! @b-wheeler.bsky.social will be sharing our emerging research on online hate and bullying!
We’re always amazed at the impact you can make in just 3 minutes. Thank you to CSAB for hosting an incredible showcase of groundbreaking work. All the presenters inspired us. A special shoutout to @musamalik.bsky.social for his standout paper on global morality! #ica25
June 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
We’re always amazed at the impact you can make in just 3 minutes. Thank you to CSAB for hosting an incredible showcase of groundbreaking work. All the presenters inspired us. A special shoutout to @musamalik.bsky.social for his standout paper on global morality! #ica25
Huge thanks to everyone who joined @musamalik.bsky.social’s presentation this morning! 🌟 Grateful for such an engaged audience! #ica25
June 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Huge thanks to everyone who joined @musamalik.bsky.social’s presentation this morning! 🌟 Grateful for such an engaged audience! #ica25
Truly, is there anything @musamalik.bsky.social can’t do?
If you haven’t had the chance to hear Musa share his research, you’re in for a treat. Catch him tomorrow at #ica25 , first at 9am in the Aspen Ballroom, then again at 12pm in the Mt. Blue Sky room.
(He is also on the job market this year 👀)
If you haven’t had the chance to hear Musa share his research, you’re in for a treat. Catch him tomorrow at #ica25 , first at 9am in the Aspen Ballroom, then again at 12pm in the Mt. Blue Sky room.
(He is also on the job market this year 👀)
June 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Truly, is there anything @musamalik.bsky.social can’t do?
If you haven’t had the chance to hear Musa share his research, you’re in for a treat. Catch him tomorrow at #ica25 , first at 9am in the Aspen Ballroom, then again at 12pm in the Mt. Blue Sky room.
(He is also on the job market this year 👀)
If you haven’t had the chance to hear Musa share his research, you’re in for a treat. Catch him tomorrow at #ica25 , first at 9am in the Aspen Ballroom, then again at 12pm in the Mt. Blue Sky room.
(He is also on the job market this year 👀)
We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses.
#hackica25 #ica25
Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses.
#hackica25 #ica25
June 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
We’re thrilled to see MNL represented at @hackingcommsci.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses.
#hackica25 #ica25
Huge thanks to @jacobtfisher.online and @kyliewoodman.bsky.social for organizing another fantastic hackathon and sharing valuable comm sci insights such as using GitHub and running fMRI analyses.
#hackica25 #ica25
If you have questions about media addictions, @kyliewoodman.bsky.social is our in-house expert. See her present 2 posters at #SANS2025: examining the neural mediator between psychopathology and Gaming Disorder, and another on gender differences in the neural development of general media addictions.
April 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you have questions about media addictions, @kyliewoodman.bsky.social is our in-house expert. See her present 2 posters at #SANS2025: examining the neural mediator between psychopathology and Gaming Disorder, and another on gender differences in the neural development of general media addictions.
Last day of #SANS2025! Come check out our poster on the neural markers of media addiction in adolescents, using data from the ABCD study. Presented during the poster session at 1:50 PM by PhD candidate @kyliewoodman.bsky.social!
April 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Last day of #SANS2025! Come check out our poster on the neural markers of media addiction in adolescents, using data from the ABCD study. Presented during the poster session at 1:50 PM by PhD candidate @kyliewoodman.bsky.social!
Incredibly thoughtful research coming out of the CCSL lab, featuring innovative affective clustering of news headlines, drift diffusion modeling, and fMRI news valence contrasts. @richardhuskey.bsky.social always knows how to captivate an audience. #SANS2025
April 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Incredibly thoughtful research coming out of the CCSL lab, featuring innovative affective clustering of news headlines, drift diffusion modeling, and fMRI news valence contrasts. @richardhuskey.bsky.social always knows how to captivate an audience. #SANS2025
MNL alum @richardhuskey.bsky.social delivered a great Blitz talk on new media selection and the representation of negative news headline bias. Check out his poster tonight at #SANS2025!
April 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
MNL alum @richardhuskey.bsky.social delivered a great Blitz talk on new media selection and the representation of negative news headline bias. Check out his poster tonight at #SANS2025!
Last night, @kanupandey.bsky.social from UCSB truly livened up #SANS2025 with his upbeat amd witty humor at Comic SANS
April 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Last night, @kanupandey.bsky.social from UCSB truly livened up #SANS2025 with his upbeat amd witty humor at Comic SANS
Alex Lover from the @jacobtfisher.online group presents new computational approaches to parse subtitles and film scripts for extracting moral conflict patterns. Excellent presentation, way to go Alex! What a nice memory of some MNL work with
@fhopp.bsky.social and @jacobtfisher.online. Nostalgia!
@fhopp.bsky.social and @jacobtfisher.online. Nostalgia!
April 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Alex Lover from the @jacobtfisher.online group presents new computational approaches to parse subtitles and film scripts for extracting moral conflict patterns. Excellent presentation, way to go Alex! What a nice memory of some MNL work with
@fhopp.bsky.social and @jacobtfisher.online. Nostalgia!
@fhopp.bsky.social and @jacobtfisher.online. Nostalgia!
MNL Alumni @fhopp.bsky.social explains neural dissociable representations of morality and their use in decoding (predicting) graded perceived moral wrongness and ultimately moral narratives. Stay tuned, more to come soon ..
April 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
MNL Alumni @fhopp.bsky.social explains neural dissociable representations of morality and their use in decoding (predicting) graded perceived moral wrongness and ultimately moral narratives. Stay tuned, more to come soon ..
Kudos to @musamalik.bsky.social who presented our work on the global representation of morality and its ecological determinants at the Media and Morality conference in Buffalo. It is a terrific conference with many new and in part provocative ideas.
April 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Kudos to @musamalik.bsky.social who presented our work on the global representation of morality and its ecological determinants at the Media and Morality conference in Buffalo. It is a terrific conference with many new and in part provocative ideas.
Congratulations to lab member Kylie Woodman for her presentation of Breaking the Media Panic Cycle (A Brain Based Approach to Media Addiction) focusing on a better understanding of how social media and video games are addictive through affordance, content, and personal predisposing risk factors!
March 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Congratulations to lab member Kylie Woodman for her presentation of Breaking the Media Panic Cycle (A Brain Based Approach to Media Addiction) focusing on a better understanding of how social media and video games are addictive through affordance, content, and personal predisposing risk factors!
We are hosting a special issue with NeuroImage dedicated to exploring the intricate relationship between media use, technology dependence, and brain development, with a particular focus on the risks and benefits associated with these modern behaviors.
February 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We are hosting a special issue with NeuroImage dedicated to exploring the intricate relationship between media use, technology dependence, and brain development, with a particular focus on the risks and benefits associated with these modern behaviors.
We are the Media Neuroscience Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. We research topics at the intersection of communication, technology, and neuroscience. Visit our lab website here: www.medianeuroscience.org
See a recent publication of ours here:
www.nature.com/nathumbehav/...
See a recent publication of ours here:
www.nature.com/nathumbehav/...
December 2, 2024 at 10:00 PM
We are the Media Neuroscience Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. We research topics at the intersection of communication, technology, and neuroscience. Visit our lab website here: www.medianeuroscience.org
See a recent publication of ours here:
www.nature.com/nathumbehav/...
See a recent publication of ours here:
www.nature.com/nathumbehav/...