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Melissa Thye

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Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh | semantic and social cognition • narrative comprehension • naturalistic neuroimaging • neurodiversity

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Two great opportunities to join a fantastic team. Patrick is the best - kind, smart, and leading some cool interdisciplinary science with young people. Check it out!

02.10.2025 14:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🎓 FLUX is proud to spotlight Dr. Melissa Thye.

Her research focuses on how semantic and social cognition support our ability to understand narratives, the brain systems that underlie these processes, and how these abilities emerge in early childhood.

Read about her journey:
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31.08.2025 17:01 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.

Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

21.06.2025 08:25 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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Behind the Scenes: Using Movies to Study the Human Brain What happens inside your brain when you watch your favorite movie? Maybe you wonder what the character thinks or wants to do next? Since characters in movies often act like we do in real life, scienti...

gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them!

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

20.06.2025 08:49 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️

14.05.2025 14:31 👍 276 🔁 118 💬 11 📌 16

Check out our latest paper on how we process some of the word and event-level content in movies! Glad to see it out - lots of lessons learned with this one. As always, grateful for the support from @danmirman.bsky.social and @paul-hoffman.bsky.social

02.04.2024 17:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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In a 🚨 new paper 🚨: doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...,
@pennypexman.bsky.social,
@rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵

22.03.2024 14:02 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

16.12.2023 15:05 👍 94 🔁 45 💬 8 📌 6

🚨New preprint🚨led by Veronica Diveica in collaboration with myself, Emiko Muraki and Penny Pexman. An intriguing set of findings arising from factor analysis and network modelling of sensorimotor, affective, and socialness ratings, and distributional and lexical properties of words.

06.12.2023 20:46 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The ✨left inferior frontal gyrus✨ responds to numerous cognitive tasks. Does it have one task-general role or does it contain subregions with different functional specializations?

We explore its ✨cross-domain functional organization✨ in a 🚨 new paper 🚨 : doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

16.10.2023 16:48 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2

Thank you! Grateful for the unflagging support and mentorship of @danmirman.bsky.social and Paul Hoffman throughout the PhD which made it a rewarding and fun journey. Massive thank you to the examiners @rjbinney.bsky.social and Sarah MacPherson for an engaging and positive viva experience!

11.10.2023 12:13 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0