Narayani Srivastava
@narayanisri.bsky.social
Cognitive Psychology Researcher
Interested in Working Memory, Cognitive Control, Mind Wandering and Selective Attention
Actively looking for the research opportunities in the above mention fields and their intersection
Interested in Working Memory, Cognitive Control, Mind Wandering and Selective Attention
Actively looking for the research opportunities in the above mention fields and their intersection
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
🚨 New paper out!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠
We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.
In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn
1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠
We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.
In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn
1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!
July 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚨 New paper out!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠
We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.
In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn
1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!
Phase confusion: How inconsistent cardiac labeling obscures interoception research 🫀🧠
We unpack methodological incosistencies and propose a way forward with the HEARTS framework.
In Biol. Psychol. - Open Access:
🔗 shorturl.at/YJhyn
1st paper of great @angeliacaparco.bsky.social!
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Excellent work here on brain body interaction, metabolism, and mental health.
What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health
Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Excellent work here on brain body interaction, metabolism, and mental health.
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
We argue that moral expressions—that signal one’s sense of right and wrong—are highly sensitive to social norms. These norms can amplify moral expressions (eg social media) or restrain them (eg work settings)
See our new paper on How Social Influence Shapes Moral Expression:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
See our new paper on How Social Influence Shapes Moral Expression:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We argue that moral expressions—that signal one’s sense of right and wrong—are highly sensitive to social norms. These norms can amplify moral expressions (eg social media) or restrain them (eg work settings)
See our new paper on How Social Influence Shapes Moral Expression:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
See our new paper on How Social Influence Shapes Moral Expression:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
🚨 New preprint! Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference 🧠
We compare humans and neural networks in a learning task, showing how training regime and task similarity interact to drive transfer or interference.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We compare humans and neural networks in a learning task, showing how training regime and task similarity interact to drive transfer or interference.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference
Learning depends not only on the content of what we learn, but also on how we learn and on how experiences are structured over time. To investigate how task similarity and training regime interact dur...
www.biorxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🚨 New preprint! Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference 🧠
We compare humans and neural networks in a learning task, showing how training regime and task similarity interact to drive transfer or interference.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We compare humans and neural networks in a learning task, showing how training regime and task similarity interact to drive transfer or interference.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
AffectTracker allows users to continuously rate their valence and arousal during VR experiences. It features customizable feedback options, including a simplified affect grid and a novel abstract shape ("Flubber"), designed to be intuitive and minimally interfering.
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
AffectTracker allows users to continuously rate their valence and arousal during VR experiences. It features customizable feedback options, including a simplified affect grid and a novel abstract shape ("Flubber"), designed to be intuitive and minimally interfering.
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
What we found:
AN individuals missed more gut signals despite intact brain/body responses. ❌
Computational models showed biased expectations & reduced precision 🧠
Capsule stimulation also triggered greater hunger increases in AN 🍽
AN individuals missed more gut signals despite intact brain/body responses. ❌
Computational models showed biased expectations & reduced precision 🧠
Capsule stimulation also triggered greater hunger increases in AN 🍽
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What we found:
AN individuals missed more gut signals despite intact brain/body responses. ❌
Computational models showed biased expectations & reduced precision 🧠
Capsule stimulation also triggered greater hunger increases in AN 🍽
AN individuals missed more gut signals despite intact brain/body responses. ❌
Computational models showed biased expectations & reduced precision 🧠
Capsule stimulation also triggered greater hunger increases in AN 🍽
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Even after recovery, relapse is heartbreakingly common in anorexia nervosa. Could the answer lie in the gut’s hidden signals? 🧵
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex
Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci
Preprint Alert!!
In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task.
Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task.
Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Motor control processes moderate visual working memory gating
Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (OS...
www.biorxiv.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
By me +
Hanna Hillman
We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue
Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
By me +
Hanna Hillman
We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue
Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
By me +
Hanna Hillman
We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue
Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
By me +
Hanna Hillman
We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue
Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Online Now: Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize across tasks and laboratories. We call for community-driven efforts to systematically test and validate connectivity metrics using shared datasets and protocols, aiming to establish robust, replicable frameworks for cognitive and clinical applications.
dlvr.it
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Online Now: Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...
GitHub - LewisPeacockLab/MorePower: Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows)
Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows). Contribute to LewisPeacockLab/MorePower development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro
Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task
Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit
@aeajournals.bsky.social
#behavioraleconomics
@aeajournals.bsky.social
#behavioraleconomics
August 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit
@aeajournals.bsky.social
#behavioraleconomics
@aeajournals.bsky.social
#behavioraleconomics
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At 26, during the Reign of Terror in France, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier narrowly avoided the guillotine. A decade later, he made a discovery that changed mathematics forever. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports:
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
What Is the Fourier Transform? | Quanta Magazine
Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, de...
www.quantamagazine.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
At 26, during the Reign of Terror in France, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier narrowly avoided the guillotine. A decade later, he made a discovery that changed mathematics forever. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports:
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
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🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.
I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social
#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social
#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
September 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.
I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social
#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social
#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
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Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
authors.elsevier.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
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🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪
What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?
We explore this possibility in a new review:
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!
#consciousness #dreaming
What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?
We explore this possibility in a new review:
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!
#consciousness #dreaming
Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur
academic.oup.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪
What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?
We explore this possibility in a new review:
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!
#consciousness #dreaming
What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?
We explore this possibility in a new review:
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!
#consciousness #dreaming
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New paper from my lab testing how the breadth of attentional focus influences visual distraction by salient stimuli. Across six experiments, we find no ERP or behavioral evidence in support of the attentional window account.
Read about it on my blog:
gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/t...
Read about it on my blog:
gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/t...
Testing the Attentional Window Account of Capture
Ma, X., Luck, S.J., & Gaspelin, N., (in press). Ignoring salient distractors inside and outside the attentional window. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [PDF] Many studies have shown that ind…
gaspelinblog.wordpress.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New paper from my lab testing how the breadth of attentional focus influences visual distraction by salient stimuli. Across six experiments, we find no ERP or behavioral evidence in support of the attentional window account.
Read about it on my blog:
gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/t...
Read about it on my blog:
gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/t...
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Just a whiff of certain smells can instantly take me back to my childhood... Read a new Q&A with Joan Tarrida Vidal about the lasting cognitive effects of smell:
#scicomm #neuroscience #science
#scicomm #neuroscience #science
The Lasting Cognitive Effect of Smell on Memory
Researchers, exploring what happens in the brain after exposure to certain smells, found that that even brief odor cues have a lasting effect
www.cogneurosociety.org
September 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Just a whiff of certain smells can instantly take me back to my childhood... Read a new Q&A with Joan Tarrida Vidal about the lasting cognitive effects of smell:
#scicomm #neuroscience #science
#scicomm #neuroscience #science
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Spotlighting researchers sharing open-source paradigms in PsychoPy! ✨
This week:
Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
#OpenScience #PsychologyResearch #Research
This week:
Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
#OpenScience #PsychologyResearch #Research
Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, and multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy - Behavior Research Methods
Individual differences in attentional abilities provide an interesting approach in studying visual attention as well as the relation of attention to other psychometric measures. However, recent…
link.springer.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Spotlighting researchers sharing open-source paradigms in PsychoPy! ✨
This week:
Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
#OpenScience #PsychologyResearch #Research
This week:
Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
#OpenScience #PsychologyResearch #Research
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
There is extensive debate about whether and how social media use affects well-being. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology outlines key methodological issues in experimental intervention studies on social media use and how they could be addressed. 🔒
Methodological considerations for social media intervention studies - Nature Reviews Psychology
There is extensive debate about whether and how social media use affects well-being. In this Perspective, Vanden Abeele et al. outline key methodological issues in experimental intervention studies on social media use and how they could be addressed.
go.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
There is extensive debate about whether and how social media use affects well-being. A Perspective in Nature Reviews Psychology outlines key methodological issues in experimental intervention studies on social media use and how they could be addressed. 🔒
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Perception of emotional stimuli involves a mix of bottom-up stimulus information and top-down information. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology explores how top-down processes — including attention, expectations and context — shape the perception of emotional stimuli. 🔒
Top-down influences on the perception of emotional stimuli - Nature Reviews Psychology
Perception of emotional stimuli involves a mix of bottom-up stimulus information and top-down information. In this Review, Mohanty and colleague explore how top-down processes, including attention, expectations and context, shape the perception of emotional stimuli.
go.nature.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Perception of emotional stimuli involves a mix of bottom-up stimulus information and top-down information. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology explores how top-down processes — including attention, expectations and context — shape the perception of emotional stimuli. 🔒
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...
September 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...
Reposted by Narayani Srivastava
Just uploaded the updated `discovr_15_growth` R tutorial, which covers multilevel growth models. This one is almost unrecognizable from the old version and includes two new examples in Ch 15 and 16 of the forthcoming textbook. github.com/profandyfiel...
GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio
discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr
github.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just uploaded the updated `discovr_15_growth` R tutorial, which covers multilevel growth models. This one is almost unrecognizable from the old version and includes two new examples in Ch 15 and 16 of the forthcoming textbook. github.com/profandyfiel...