Jason Chein
@mindimager.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience @Temple U. Cognitive neuro, cognitive control, adolescent brain development, digital media/social media, working memory, risk taking, cognitive enhancement. Director of TUBRIC, PI of CABLAB (sites.temple.edu/CABLAB)
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“We propose a new model in which public communication and advocacy are considered as essential to our mission as rigor and reproducibility—critical not only for safeguarding science, but also for ensuring that its benefits reach all segments of the societies we serve”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust - Nature Neuroscience
This Comment calls on scientists to acknowledge how insufficient communication and limited engagement beyond academia have deepened the divide between science and the public. Restoring trust requires ...
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“We propose a new model in which public communication and advocacy are considered as essential to our mission as rigor and reproducibility—critical not only for safeguarding science, but also for ensuring that its benefits reach all segments of the societies we serve”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Functional Connectivity Heterogeneity and Consequences for Clinical and Cognitive Prediction
AbstractFunctional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional co...
direct.mit.edu
July 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
A deserving recognition for an incredible scientist and a great colleague. Congrats Nora! @noranewcombe.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025
August 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A deserving recognition for an incredible scientist and a great colleague. Congrats Nora! @noranewcombe.bsky.social
So excited that our work on children’s ability to discern real from AI-generated content received this recognition. We show that kids systematically misjudge some types of AI content as human, and that kids who use more technology in the home are worse at AI detection. Way to go Allison and team!
🎉Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds Congress Committee Award for excellence in science — Destinee Ramos, Allison Langer, and Wendy Rote, PhD.
These recipients were awarded for their outstanding poster presentations at #MediaAndMinds!
#SocialMedia
These recipients were awarded for their outstanding poster presentations at #MediaAndMinds!
#SocialMedia
July 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
So excited that our work on children’s ability to discern real from AI-generated content received this recognition. We show that kids systematically misjudge some types of AI content as human, and that kids who use more technology in the home are worse at AI detection. Way to go Allison and team!
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.
July 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.
This is great, and freely accessible!
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is great, and freely accessible!
Beyond honored! Credit to the amazing students and collaborators who I’ve had the incredible privilege to work beside along the way.
PS is pleased to announce the 2025 Mid-Career Award recipients! These awards recognize scientists who have made excellent contributions to the field in the middle of their careers. bit.ly/4k7eH0k @mindimager @Jason Chein @R.Shayna Rosenbaum @sarahshomstein
July 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Beyond honored! Credit to the amazing students and collaborators who I’ve had the incredible privilege to work beside along the way.
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Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
June 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
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Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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This new article by @aaronjfisher.bsky.social, @mindimager.bsky.social, et al. is important for cogneuro research b/c it discusses the common yet problematic assumption that inferences based on group averages are applicable to inherently intraindividual processes. (1/3)
Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience
Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This new article by @aaronjfisher.bsky.social, @mindimager.bsky.social, et al. is important for cogneuro research b/c it discusses the common yet problematic assumption that inferences based on group averages are applicable to inherently intraindividual processes. (1/3)
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While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.
Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation?
This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change.
See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change.
See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.
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Check if your university has signed. Write to your President if not.
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
April 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Check if your university has signed. Write to your President if not.
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New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
April 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
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Thinking about fMRI study designs for brain-based prediction? Updated preprint!
Updated preprint for those who might be interested: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
March 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Thinking about fMRI study designs for brain-based prediction? Updated preprint!
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The research grants canceled this week will stop treatments in rural communities, will stop the study of cures for conditions that affect all people, and will take away jobs from lower and middle class folks who live in “red” states. Period.
March 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The research grants canceled this week will stop treatments in rural communities, will stop the study of cures for conditions that affect all people, and will take away jobs from lower and middle class folks who live in “red” states. Period.
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With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.
Here are 4 ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time
With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate...
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
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New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
www.forbes.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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|| New Publication (Nature Communications)
Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this
(1/10)
Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this
(1/10)
March 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
|| New Publication (Nature Communications)
Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this
(1/10)
Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this
(1/10)
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Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press!
We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.
We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.
Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press!
We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.
We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.
My lab’s latest paper, with @vpmurty.bsky.social. Memory for a scary real-world event (a haunted house) is reflected in the “authenticity” of expressed memories, but listeners mistakenly think accuracy is reflected in how “analytic” the expressed memory is - oops!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Linguistic properties of memory expression differentially relate to accuracy, specificity, and perceived veracity - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
When communicating our memories to others, we use specific language to represent and express those memories. However, whether the linguistic properties associated with memory expression, such as commu...
link.springer.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My lab’s latest paper, with @vpmurty.bsky.social. Memory for a scary real-world event (a haunted house) is reflected in the “authenticity” of expressed memories, but listeners mistakenly think accuracy is reflected in how “analytic” the expressed memory is - oops!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
And now this!? These moves are going to complete destroy land at NzIH that do incredible and important work
We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.
Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.
World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.
Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.
World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.
Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
And now this!? These moves are going to complete destroy land at NzIH that do incredible and important work
Former NIH director weighs in on the status of science in today’s America. A good summary of where we are, and why its bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Former NIH director weighs in on the status of science in today’s America. A good summary of where we are, and why its bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...