Preprint⭐
Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you missed us at #cogsci2025, my lab presented 3 new studies showing how efficient (lossy) compression shapes individual learners, bilinguals, and action abstractions in language, further demonstrating the extraordinary applicability of this principle to human cognition! 🧵

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At #CogSci2025 and curious about resource-rational models of social cognition? Come to Nob Hill A at 11:14 tomorrow to hear me talk about work with @tadegquillien.bsky.social where we use the information bottleneck to study stereotype use and the outgroup homogeneity bias!

Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link

⚡ New preprint ⚡ Long ago, I heard a talk about our remarkable ability to remember 1000s of images, after seeing each only once. How do brains manage it? 🤔

After years, this reflects the answer I was looking for. Congrats to Simon Bohn et al.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Now out in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

CASNL member Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social presenting her work on arousal, functional network and memory during narrative perception at #SANS2025

Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching.

work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social

dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Calling all couples in the Chicago area! 💕 I'm launching a new study with @ycleong.bsky.social and @lydiaemery.bsky.social to explore brain responses during conversations between couples. If you're interested, please fill out our brief screener! ssd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If you are curious about the brain🧠 on causal inference, insight💡, memory retrieval, and narrative comprehension🎬, this will be the one.

work by dream team @jinke.bsky.social Rhea Madhogarhia @ycleong.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social ⭐

Attention here! We found ind. diff. & fMRI evidence that sustained attention is more closely related to long term memory than to attentional control. With the best team @monicarosenb.bsky.social @edvogel.bsky.social @annacorriveau.bsky.social @jinke.bsky.social

Remember what your partner said during a heated argument? Or the rush of getting your first job offer? Why do these emotionally arousing moments stick? Across 3 studies, and 3 arousal measures, we found that emotional arousal enhances memory encoding by promoting functional integration in the 🧠 1/🧵

Out now in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social: We developed a generalizable brain network model predicting moment-to-moment surprise. This edge-fluctuation-based predictive model (EFPM) of surprise works across tasks, from adaptive learning to watching basketball games or cartoons! rdcu.be/d4y3g

The Awh Vogel lab is heading to Psychonomics!
We made a page on our lab website to cover everything, including Ed Awh's OPAM keynote address!

awhvogellab.com/conferences#...

Find the great work on display from Chong, Igor, Matthieu, me(?), and Park!