Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences
Official account of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. Follow for research, learning resources, events, news, and job postings.
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences.@dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor @stolkarjen.bsky.social's latest research highlights why individualized communication approaches are crucial, with insights that could improve understanding of autism.
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesCongrats to @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor Tor Wager, who received the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from @nasonline.org. The prize recognizes Wager's pioneering research on the mind-body connection and innovative neuroimaging approaches. bit.ly/4k0glSM
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesExcited to be teaching a new undergraduate course on Models of Language and Conversation this term! Check it out here: context-lab.com/llm-course/ I've added lots of fun interactive demos of chatbots and NLP techniques that let students dig into the approaches.
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesI made a quirky little web app to help guide your lucid dreams: context-lab.com/dream-stream/ It's kind of like a "netflix" or "spotify" for lucid dreaming-- you select different narratives to form a playlist, and then it uses your device's microphone to start playing when it detects you're in REM.
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences🧠 Why it matters 🧠 -The results challenge a prevailing view that 5‑HT2A activation alone drives psilocybin’s therapeutic actions. -Highlights the importance of polypharmacology 🥳, and points to the 1B receptor as a target for non‑hallucinogenic antidepressant and anxiolytic pharmacotherapies.
- New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesNew paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesRemember when grinding leetcode was still a thing? If you'd like to hone your coding skills, or even just return to that simpler time for nostalgia's sake, you might enjoy this project from our group: github.com/ContextLab/l... Happy hacking! 👩💻
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesHope to see all of the serotonin enthusiasts at the ISSR mixer at SfN on Monday (people who find dopamine rewarding are welcome too). register here: pci.jotform.com/form/2528274...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences🚨 New preprint alert! We use trained-from-scratch GPT-2 models to characterize & capture the unique writing styles of individual authors. We also develop a new LLM-based relative stylometric measure. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21958 Code/data: github.com/ContextLab/l... 🤗: huggingface.co/contextlab
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesWe're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesI’m excited to share my 1st first-authored paper, “Distinct portions of superior temporal sulcus combine auditory representations with different visual streams” (with @mtfang.bsky.social and @steanze.bsky.social ), now out in The Journal of Neuroscience! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesExcited to share the preprint for my 1st 1st-author manuscript! @markthornton.bsky.social and I show that people hold robust, structured beliefs about how individual mental states unfold in intensity over time. We find that these beliefs are reflected in other domains of mental state understanding.
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesVery excited to share @landrybulls.bsky.social's 1st lead-author preprint in my lab! Using datasets from MySocialBrain.org we measured people's beliefs about how mental states change in intensity over time, the dimensional structure of those beliefs, and their correlates: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇
- Excited to share the preprint for my 1st 1st-author manuscript! @markthornton.bsky.social and I show that people hold robust, structured beliefs about how individual mental states unfold in intensity over time. We find that these beliefs are reflected in other domains of mental state understanding.
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesAfter 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesNew paper from me at Cognition and Emotion! "Deep neural network models of emotion understanding" I discuss how deep nets can be used as cognitive models of emotion perception, prediction, and regulation: doi.org/10.1080/0269... (h/t @ltjaql.bsky.social for the illustrations!)
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- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesI'm starting to work on a new library, "clustrix" ( clustrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to ease switching between local vs. remote execution in Python scripts, notebooks, etc. This has been a pain point for my group for a while!
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesNext summer I will start as an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I couldn't be more excited! 1/
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences🤠 New release announcement for our datawrangler package! Try it using: pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
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- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences🏔️ Brad is lost in the wilderness—but doesn’t know there’s a town nearby. Was he forced to stay put? In our #CogSci2025 paper, we show that judgments of what’s possible—and whether someone had to act—depend on what agents know. 📰 osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ Matt Mandelkern & @jsphillips.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesExcited to see everyone at #VSS2025 - Come check out what my lab has been up to over this past year:
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesDespite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesNew preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs" osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesNew Preprint with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here we show increased neural delay activity associated with remembering features as part of real-world objects. 1/
- More Dartmouth PBS at #SANS2025!
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- More Dartmouth PBS at #SANS2025!
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- Now for the first #SANS2025 debate! @drdamienfair.bsky.social and @thaliawheatley.bsky.social will discuss "Scaling up vs. zooming in: The case for large consortia vs. small investigator led studies" moderated by Josiah Leong.
- Congratulations to Dartmouth PBS's @markthornton.bsky.social for winning the @sansmeeting.bsky.social Early Career Award! 👏👏👏
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- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesAI in social & affective neuroscience: Caution or acceleration? 🤖 Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social 🆚 Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social Can AI be our Co-Pilot - or should we slow down? LaSalle Ballroom, don’t miss it! #SANS2025
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesIn a new paper, we demonstrate the perception of possibilities but show that the processes underlying this phenomenon occur before the information reaches high-level cognition. The representation of these possibilities is distinctly perceptual(!) and separate from cognition. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesWe're super excited to announce that we've officially convinced @cgonciulea.bsky.social to join our rag-tag (but VERY classy) team of science nerds this fall as a @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social PhD student 🎉🥳🤓🧠🧑🔬🎓!!
- Dartmouth PBS at #SANS2025!
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- We're delighted to be welcoming Gus Cooney to the department as an Assistant Professor in 2026!
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- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesIn a new preprint (doi.org/10.31234/osf...) a huge range of data+methods shows that people can evaluate what others know without first evaluating what they think/believe. Representations of knowledge seem to be an independent and conceptually primitive way of representing others' minds. 🧵 below!
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesNew preprint! My entry into the ongoing AI empathy discussion: "Reframing the performance and ethics of 'empathic' AI: Wisdom of the crowd and placebos." osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesNew paper out at @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! This is the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted into how people think about relationships: a true tour de force! We identify 5 dimensions and 3 categories that organize relationship concepts. Proud to have made a (small) contribution to it!
- It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- Dartmouth PBS showing up to our local Stand Up For Science rally on the Green!
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- We are organizing a Stand Up for Science rally at Dartmouth College! When: This Friday, March 7th, at 12pm (noon) Where: Center of the Dartmouth Green
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- Congratulations to Dartmouth PBS faculty member @markthornton.bsky.social and graduate alum @minuekim.bsky.social for winning the APS's 2025 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions!
- Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉 #AcademicSky #Psychology @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ashleylwatts.bsky.social @minuekim.bsky.social @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @markthornton.bsky.social @gemmasharpe.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesCongratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉 #AcademicSky #Psychology @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ashleylwatts.bsky.social @minuekim.bsky.social @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @markthornton.bsky.social @gemmasharpe.bsky.social
- Congratulations to @esfinn.bsky.social for winning the CNS 2025 Young Investigator Award!
- Reposted by Dartmouth Psychological and Brain SciencesWe ski and science! Check out Sixtine Fleury’s poster at #wcbr2025 tonight (Poster 19) on the role of the non- hallucinogenic serotonin 1B receptor in the antidepressant response to psilocybin.
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