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On a sojourn in the Wild West, in passage from this frame to the next. (Also, Prof. of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth)

  1. The final version (after proof) is now finally out. It provides a detailed spatio-temporal profile of brain mediation of the cue-stimulus integration in the pain context. We interpreted the results in terms of cortical hierarchy. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

    When we experience pain, the sensory input is modulated by contextual information. This neuroimaging study shows how expectation and sensory input are integrated in the human brain during pain percept...

    Spatiotemporal integration of contextual and sensory information within the cortical hierarchy in human pain experience

    When we experience pain, the sensory input is modulated by contextual information. This neuroimaging study shows how expectation and sensory input are integrated in the human brain during pain percept...

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  2. "Brown CS faculty members Ellie Pavlick and Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social have just received a $20M NSF grant to found ARIA, a national institute to develop intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants."

    Great news and congrats! 🧠📈 🧪

    
Brown CS
@BrownCSDept
@BrownCSDept
 faculty members Ellie Pavlick and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (
@geomblog
) have just received a $20M 
@NSF
 grant to found ARIA, a national institute to develop intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants. Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2025/07/2
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  3. A fascinating new #fmri study from Jo He with Kevin Ochsner and co. on social reappraisal. Giving advice to a friend changes our brain responses and helps regulate emotion. Fictive processes (imagination!) can have real consequences in the brain & life.

    academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

    Abstract. To manage life’s stressors, we can self-regulate our emotions or seek social regulatory support. One such strategy is reappraisal, where individu

    Comparing the neural bases of self- and social-reappraisal

    Abstract. To manage life’s stressors, we can self-regulate our emotions or seek social regulatory support. One such strategy is reappraisal, where individu

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  4. Health is more than the absence of disease, and depends on harmony across multiple brain-body systems. We need more research on whole-person health! The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) @thenccih.bsky.social funds vital whole-person research. RP and #KEEP_NCCIH!

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  5. A month ago, I shared a draft of the teaching resources list for cog psych (& related) courses. Now that the fall semester is only 4 wks away 😱, I thought I'd ask you to share your favorite books, videos, demos, syllabi, etc., to make this list more complete & more useful for interested folks.

    CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT (Last updated: June 27, 2025, 10) PLEASE SHARE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHING RESOURCES!  Teaching Resources for Cognitive Psychology Assembled by:  Akira Miyake University of Colo...

    Teaching Resources for Cognitive Psychology

    CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT (Last updated: June 27, 2025, 10) PLEASE SHARE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHING RESOURCES! Teaching Resources for Cognitive Psychology Assembled by: Akira Miyake University of Colo...

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  6. Happy to have contributed together with @lgrabot.bsky.social to discuss #traveling_waves and cognition!

    /1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

    Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...

    Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions

    Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...

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  7. Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

    High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.

    Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex

    High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.

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  8. 🚨New paper in PAIN w/ R. Gopalakrishnan, @torwager.bsky.social, @mcgill.ca Mathieu Roy, et al.

    Neurophysiological encoding of aversive prediction errors.

    journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

    @theneuro.bsky.social

    odeling and magnetoencephalography to detect time-resolved activations underlying pain expectations and aversive PE signals in the human brain. The task entailed learning probabilistically changing cu...

    Neurophysiological encoding of aversive prediction errors : PAIN

    odeling and magnetoencephalography to detect time-resolved activations underlying pain expectations and aversive PE signals in the human brain. The task entailed learning probabilistically changing cu...

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