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Experimental psychologist | Working on learning, memory, cognition, evidence synthesis, reproducible research and more | https://mvadillo.com/

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Antes de aprender las letras: cómo la rapidez al nombrar anuncia al futuro lector | Ciencia Cognitiva

Antes de aprender las letras: cómo la rapidez al nombrar anuncia al futuro lector www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2637

03.03.2026 15:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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💼 Exciting opportunity at BR-UK, UCL!
Collaborate across sectors to advance behavioural research with impact! We're looking for a senior/research fellow to join @susanmichie.bsky.social & the BR-UK team at UCL to lead national research & capability-building. Find out more & apply shorturl.at/FcSdx

17.02.2026 15:34 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨

2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience

Building new ways to study lived experience as it unfolds in time and maps onto brain, body and behavior

Please share‼️

26.02.2026 03:41 👍 9 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
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🗣️ We have invited Olivia Guest (@olivia.science), assistant professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University, to speak about how we reason over artificial neural networks.

We are eager to learn more about her work!

Discover more about it here👇

www.bcbl.eu/es/noticias/...

25.02.2026 15:39 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox: https://osf.io/sb9e4

22.02.2026 11:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:

The Deliberation Taboo

Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/

osf.io/preprints/ps...

24.02.2026 13:53 👍 138 🔁 52 💬 4 📌 11
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Postdoctoral researcher on single neuron recordings for consciousness Contract period: 18 monthsExpected date of employment: June 2026Proportion of work: Full timeSalary: according to INSERM scales (~2900 – 3300 € gross / month based on experience)Desired level of educa...

#hiring
Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness!

18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France.

⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026.

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

24.02.2026 20:50 👍 29 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 2
JOB OFFER PhD RESEARCHER - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - BRAIN RHYTHMS AND COGNITION RESEARCH GROUP at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country,...

📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠
Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL.

More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n

24.02.2026 15:33 👍 8 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1

Yes, a whole chapter on free will, quite focused on Dennett. Great book!

21.02.2026 19:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The meaning of science #lecturasMV Todavía no me he topado con ningún libro de la colección Pelican que sea aburrido o malo. Lo mejor de este es el capítulo dedicado a Thomas Kuhn, que cuestiona algunas de las interpretaciones más extremas y relativistas de la teoría de las revoluciones científicas.

21.02.2026 15:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"No, funding calls are not a 'waste of time and money'."

By @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy

#AcademicSky

17.02.2026 16:33 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Lo buscaré. Lo cierto es que el estilo me ha encantado. Pero creo que el libro me ha pillado a contrapié.

16.02.2026 08:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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La balada del café triste #lecturasMV El estilo narrativo de McCullers es inigualable. Con todo, no he conseguido entrar en ninguna de las historias que componen el volumen, con la posible excepción de Wunderkid. Le daré otra oportunidad dentro de un tiempo.

16.02.2026 08:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The road to conscious machines #lecturasMV Excelente introducción a la historia de la IA y los desafíos que plantea. Me convence poco el capítulo final sobre si las máquinas serán conscientes algún día. Pero no le quita mérito al libro.

15.02.2026 18:15 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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PALMS: Pavlovian Associative Learning Models Simulator Simulations are an indispensable step in the cycle of theory development and refinement, helping researchers formulate precise definitions, generate models, and make accurate predictions. This paper i...

New preprint and simulator of associative learning attentional models. Have fun! 👁️
arxiv.org/abs/2602.07519
cal-r.org/index.php?id...
#simulation #associative_learning #attention

10.02.2026 14:49 👍 16 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
Entre lo humano y lo microbiano | Ciencia Cognitiva

Entre lo humano y lo microbiano www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2629

04.02.2026 09:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New preprint on AI, consciousness and embodiment with the brilliant @erikjbekkers.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016
We introduce a new metaphysical view - Biological Idealism

😎

02.02.2026 14:46 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Sociología Experimental. Métodos, teorías y aplicaciones

Por cierto, he escrito un libro para el CIS de Sociología Experimental. Si os interesa adentraros en el mundo de la experimentación con un enfoque muy aplicado, es vuestro libro. Teoría, ejemplos didácticos, explicaciones sin muchos rollos.
www.cis.es/es/w/sociolo...

22.01.2026 15:13 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Rubia de verano #lecturasMV Todo un bestiario de mezquindades y miserias postadolescentes. No me ha vuelto loco, pero el retrato de los personajes es bastante profundo, teniendo en cuenta que se trata de relatos muy breves.

01.02.2026 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My pleasure, Pablo! Congratulations!

31.01.2026 15:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The University of Cambridge has an exciting Assistant, Associate, and Full Professorship of Public Policy open in the new Bennett School of Public Policy. It's a fantastic group with great people, they have a focus on digital policy too! Area open.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/term/De...

29.01.2026 14:30 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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We were wrong about being able to 'nudge' people to improve the world We thought we could address big social problems by steering individual behaviour. But "nudging" people doesn't work, say behavioural scientists Nick Chater and George Loewenstein

We thought we could address big social problems by steering individual behaviour. But "nudging" people doesn't work, say behavioural scientists Nick Chater and George Loewenstein

27.01.2026 16:01 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

Brilliant piece of work on methodological problems in the simulation of synaptic plasticity and silent working memory by @igcastillejo.bsky.social Don't miss it!

26.01.2026 19:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My first PhD work is now out as a pre-print! 💫

Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )

We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...

26.01.2026 17:24 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Methodological Flexibility in the Iowa Gambling Task Undermines Interpretability: A Meta-method Review: https://osf.io/4g3vr

24.01.2026 16:19 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: https://osf.io/9uzhq

24.01.2026 17:40 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
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and more results from a novel paradigm showing unconscious ensemble working memory for emotional faces in a 2IFC task
osf.io/preprints/ps...
great work by @nirmiteem.bsky.social

23.01.2026 10:41 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

So glad to see this work published! Congrats to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social for leading this exciting multisite project!!

20.01.2026 13:17 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
El cerebro que habla: La biología del lenguaje humano | Ciencia Cognitiva

El cerebro que habla: La biología del lenguaje humano www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2623

21.01.2026 08:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's been an honour to be part of this. Congratulations to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social and all coauthors for this ourstanding piece of work. Science at its best!

20.01.2026 12:53 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0