Melissa Thye
@melissathye.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh | semantic and social cognition • narrative comprehension • naturalistic neuroimaging • neurodiversity
Two great opportunities to join a fantastic team. Patrick is the best - kind, smart, and leading some cool interdisciplinary science with young people. Check it out!
🎉We're hiring!🎉
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
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We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Two great opportunities to join a fantastic team. Patrick is the best - kind, smart, and leading some cool interdisciplinary science with young people. Check it out!
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🎓 FLUX is proud to spotlight Dr. Melissa Thye.
Her research focuses on how semantic and social cognition support our ability to understand narratives, the brain systems that underlie these processes, and how these abilities emerge in early childhood.
Read about her journey:
👉 buff.ly/8f6eLfp
Her research focuses on how semantic and social cognition support our ability to understand narratives, the brain systems that underlie these processes, and how these abilities emerge in early childhood.
Read about her journey:
👉 buff.ly/8f6eLfp
August 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🎓 FLUX is proud to spotlight Dr. Melissa Thye.
Her research focuses on how semantic and social cognition support our ability to understand narratives, the brain systems that underlie these processes, and how these abilities emerge in early childhood.
Read about her journey:
👉 buff.ly/8f6eLfp
Her research focuses on how semantic and social cognition support our ability to understand narratives, the brain systems that underlie these processes, and how these abilities emerge in early childhood.
Read about her journey:
👉 buff.ly/8f6eLfp
Reposted by Melissa Thye
Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
June 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Reposted by Melissa Thye
gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Behind the Scenes: Using Movies to Study the Human Brain
What happens inside your brain when you watch your favorite movie? Maybe you wonder what the character thinks or wants to do next? Since characters in movies often act like we do in real life, scienti...
kids.frontiersin.org
June 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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New paper alert!
Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com
nature.com/articles/s41...
THREAD! 🧵⬇️
Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com
nature.com/articles/s41...
THREAD! 🧵⬇️
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New paper alert!
Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com
nature.com/articles/s41...
THREAD! 🧵⬇️
Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com
nature.com/articles/s41...
THREAD! 🧵⬇️
Check out our latest paper on how we process some of the word and event-level content in movies! Glad to see it out - lots of lessons learned with this one. As always, grateful for the support from @danmirman.bsky.social and @paul-hoffman.bsky.social
Another monumental piece of work from @melissathye.bsky.social's PhD thesis (with @paul-hoffman.bsky.social and me): doi.org/10.1038/s415.... This was a registered report examining semantic and social cognition during naturalistic narrative comprehension (watching a feature-length movie). 1/6
The neural basis of naturalistic semantic and social cognition - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The neural basis of naturalistic semantic and social cognition
doi.org
April 2, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Check out our latest paper on how we process some of the word and event-level content in movies! Glad to see it out - lots of lessons learned with this one. As always, grateful for the support from @danmirman.bsky.social and @paul-hoffman.bsky.social
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In a 🚨 new paper 🚨: doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...,
@pennypexman.bsky.social,
@rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵
@pennypexman.bsky.social,
@rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵
March 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM
In a 🚨 new paper 🚨: doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...,
@pennypexman.bsky.social,
@rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵
@pennypexman.bsky.social,
@rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵
Reposted by Melissa Thye
Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 16, 2023 at 3:05 PM
Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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🚨New preprint🚨led by Veronica Diveica in collaboration with myself, Emiko Muraki and Penny Pexman. An intriguing set of findings arising from factor analysis and network modelling of sensorimotor, affective, and socialness ratings, and distributional and lexical properties of words.
Mapping Semantic Space: Exploring the Higher-order Structure of Word Meaning: http://osf.io/dxcqn/
December 6, 2023 at 8:46 PM
🚨New preprint🚨led by Veronica Diveica in collaboration with myself, Emiko Muraki and Penny Pexman. An intriguing set of findings arising from factor analysis and network modelling of sensorimotor, affective, and socialness ratings, and distributional and lexical properties of words.
Reposted by Melissa Thye
The ✨left inferior frontal gyrus✨ responds to numerous cognitive tasks. Does it have one task-general role or does it contain subregions with different functional specializations?
We explore its ✨cross-domain functional organization✨ in a 🚨 new paper 🚨 : doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
We explore its ✨cross-domain functional organization✨ in a 🚨 new paper 🚨 : doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
doi.org
October 16, 2023 at 4:48 PM
The ✨left inferior frontal gyrus✨ responds to numerous cognitive tasks. Does it have one task-general role or does it contain subregions with different functional specializations?
We explore its ✨cross-domain functional organization✨ in a 🚨 new paper 🚨 : doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
We explore its ✨cross-domain functional organization✨ in a 🚨 new paper 🚨 : doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
Thank you! Grateful for the unflagging support and mentorship of @danmirman.bsky.social and Paul Hoffman throughout the PhD which made it a rewarding and fun journey. Massive thank you to the examiners @rjbinney.bsky.social and Sarah MacPherson for an engaging and positive viva experience!
Congratulations *Dr* @melissathye.bsky.social, who passed her viva yesterday! Overcame so many obstacles to get here without ever sacrificing the quality of her work or support for her peers. Truly a special honour to get to work with a student like this
October 11, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Thank you! Grateful for the unflagging support and mentorship of @danmirman.bsky.social and Paul Hoffman throughout the PhD which made it a rewarding and fun journey. Massive thank you to the examiners @rjbinney.bsky.social and Sarah MacPherson for an engaging and positive viva experience!