Shaoming
@shaomingwang.bsky.social
Computational cognitive science of learning, reasoning and creativity, in both social and non-social contexts 🧠🎾🌈🥘
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Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵)
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵)
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
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Wonderful end-of-semester party yesterday. I love being a part of this community.
May 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Wonderful end-of-semester party yesterday. I love being a part of this community.
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announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students and where they are now. sign up: www.insead.edu/events/neuro...
Neuroeconomics Summer School
www.insead.edu
February 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students and where they are now. sign up: www.insead.edu/events/neuro...
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Interested in how anxiety impacts learning about aversive events? Excited to share @luiantaverra.bsky.social cool project on whether overgeneralisation arises bc ppl think they saw a threatening stimulus, or bc they really assigned value to similar stimuli #neuroskyence #PsychSkySci #compneurosky
It’s a Preprint! 👋
We show how we can dissociate perceptual from value-based mechanisms of generalisation + that stronger gen. in anxiety is associated with value rather than perception.
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@ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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We show how we can dissociate perceptual from value-based mechanisms of generalisation + that stronger gen. in anxiety is associated with value rather than perception.
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@ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
osf.io
January 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Interested in how anxiety impacts learning about aversive events? Excited to share @luiantaverra.bsky.social cool project on whether overgeneralisation arises bc ppl think they saw a threatening stimulus, or bc they really assigned value to similar stimuli #neuroskyence #PsychSkySci #compneurosky
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How is the memorability of an image influenced by how it makes us feel?
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
January 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How is the memorability of an image influenced by how it makes us feel?
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
@hartwakeland.bsky.social created an image set (VAMOS) of over 900 scene images, along with their valence, arousal, and memorability ratings. They then showed that *moderately* negative images are more memorable!
(1/2)
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We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our team & become a LUMeNary @EmoryPsychology in Summer 2025! ✨
Applications accepted here:
staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/...
And feel free to reach out to me!
Applications accepted here:
staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/...
And feel free to reach out to me!
January 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our team & become a LUMeNary @EmoryPsychology in Summer 2025! ✨
Applications accepted here:
staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/...
And feel free to reach out to me!
Applications accepted here:
staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/...
And feel free to reach out to me!
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🎉My lab (webbslab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
tinyurl.com/naexvxdc
tinyurl.com/naexvxdc
Clinical Research Asst I - MRA
Site: The McLean Hospital Corporation At Mass General Brigham, we know it takes a surprising range of talented professionals to advance our mission—from doctors, nurses, business people and tech exper...
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January 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
🎉My lab (webbslab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
tinyurl.com/naexvxdc
tinyurl.com/naexvxdc
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🎈New paper🎈 Led by the inimitable @asieh.bsky.social Hippocampal dysfunction in medication naive patients with schizophrenia during a memory task resolves with drug treatment. Incredible team effort! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
Impaired hippocampal circuitry and memory dysfunction in schizophrenia
Nature Mental Health - Dysfunction in the hippocampal circuitry in individuals with first-episode schizophrenia and delusions is linked to deficits in behavioral pattern separation and recognition...
urldefense.proofpoint.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🎈New paper🎈 Led by the inimitable @asieh.bsky.social Hippocampal dysfunction in medication naive patients with schizophrenia during a memory task resolves with drug treatment. Incredible team effort! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
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Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵
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I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org!
We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.
We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.
Relational Cognition Lab
relcoglab.org
January 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org!
We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.
We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.
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Alright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.
January 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Alright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.
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Thanks for the call to action!
I find video intimidating, particularly with popular media. So pretty proud to have done a live TV segment on how neuroscience could help you understand consumption (inset vid comes up when page loads)
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
I find video intimidating, particularly with popular media. So pretty proud to have done a live TV segment on how neuroscience could help you understand consumption (inset vid comes up when page loads)
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
The science of shopping: How your brain decides what to buy
With the holiday season at its peak, millions of Americans have been hitting the stores — both in person and online — to take advantage of deals, while securing gifts for family and friends.
fox5sandiego.com
January 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Thanks for the call to action!
I find video intimidating, particularly with popular media. So pretty proud to have done a live TV segment on how neuroscience could help you understand consumption (inset vid comes up when page loads)
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
I find video intimidating, particularly with popular media. So pretty proud to have done a live TV segment on how neuroscience could help you understand consumption (inset vid comes up when page loads)
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
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In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact!
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
In your New Year’s resolutions for 2025, consider public outreach
If every person in the neuroscience community committed to doing one thing, imagine the cumulative difference it would make.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact!
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Even though "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, [they] are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards"
The humanities have the least social mobility, quants have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The humanities have the least social mobility, quants have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Even though "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, [they] are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards"
The humanities have the least social mobility, quants have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The humanities have the least social mobility, quants have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Want to find happiness?
People are happiest having sex, dancing, at a museum, playing sports, gardening, or socializing.
People are less happy at work than any of the other 39 activities they reported engaging in (except for being sick in bed) academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...
People are happiest having sex, dancing, at a museum, playing sports, gardening, or socializing.
People are less happy at work than any of the other 39 activities they reported engaging in (except for being sick in bed) academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...
December 27, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Want to find happiness?
People are happiest having sex, dancing, at a museum, playing sports, gardening, or socializing.
People are less happy at work than any of the other 39 activities they reported engaging in (except for being sick in bed) academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...
People are happiest having sex, dancing, at a museum, playing sports, gardening, or socializing.
People are less happy at work than any of the other 39 activities they reported engaging in (except for being sick in bed) academic.oup.com/ej/article-a...
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Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Hello mother? Hello father? In the first hour after an earthquake, who you call reveals something important about your social network ties.
An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
#HNL work from 2023 in @pnasnexus.org
An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
#HNL work from 2023 in @pnasnexus.org
Emergency communications after earthquake reveal social network backbone of important ties
Abstract. Social networks provide a basis for collective resilience to disasters. Combining the quasi-experimental context of a major earthquake in Ya’an,
academic.oup.com
December 22, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Hello mother? Hello father? In the first hour after an earthquake, who you call reveals something important about your social network ties.
An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
#HNL work from 2023 in @pnasnexus.org
An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
#HNL work from 2023 in @pnasnexus.org
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Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper
aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
www.pnas.org
December 22, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A few years ago I realised that only a few men were applying for RA jobs in my lab. I removed "experience working with children" from the criteria and that changed overnight. Teenage boys don't get to do work experience with kids, so they can "seem" less qualified. But some of my best RAs are men.
We desperately need more men in caregiving roles, as @jessgrose.bsky.social argues. And I'd add--to get there, we have to start early, encouraging boys to fill caregiving roles that too often default to girls. Take, for example, a story from my kids' school... 1/ 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...
Opinion | Men in Caring Jobs Will Make Society More Equal
Less stigma against male caregivers is all to the good.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:27 AM
A few years ago I realised that only a few men were applying for RA jobs in my lab. I removed "experience working with children" from the criteria and that changed overnight. Teenage boys don't get to do work experience with kids, so they can "seem" less qualified. But some of my best RAs are men.
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“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
www.ru.nl
December 6, 2024 at 9:17 PM
“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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“We should embrace a plurality of OS [open science] practices reflecting the value schemes of different scientific communities, rather than promoting acontextual ‘best practices’.”
December 23, 2024 at 1:59 PM
“We should embrace a plurality of OS [open science] practices reflecting the value schemes of different scientific communities, rather than promoting acontextual ‘best practices’.”
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Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
December 23, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
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Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
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December 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
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Get your abstract submissions ready for RLDM 2025, at Trinity College in Dublin (abstracts due 1/15). Tutorial submissions close on 12/20. RLDM is a terrific interdisciplinary conference at the intersection of computational theory (AI, ML, robotics), cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience.
📢 Call for Abstracts 📢
Submit your extended abstracts on "learning and decision-making over time to achieve a goal" to #RLDM2025. Successful applications will be selected for poster or oral presentation to an interdisciplinary audience.
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15th
🔗 Learn more: rldm.org/call-for-abs...
Submit your extended abstracts on "learning and decision-making over time to achieve a goal" to #RLDM2025. Successful applications will be selected for poster or oral presentation to an interdisciplinary audience.
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15th
🔗 Learn more: rldm.org/call-for-abs...
December 10, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Get your abstract submissions ready for RLDM 2025, at Trinity College in Dublin (abstracts due 1/15). Tutorial submissions close on 12/20. RLDM is a terrific interdisciplinary conference at the intersection of computational theory (AI, ML, robotics), cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience.