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Lisa S. Scott 🧠
@lisascottbcd.bsky.social
Developmental cognitive neuroscience, vision, perception, attention, learning, EEG/ERP/ssVEP, eye tracking, infants. Professor and PI of UF🐊 BCD Lab: https://bcdlab.psych.ufl.edu
My opinions ≠UF/FL.
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Your brain resolves competing visual inputs in two stages. First, it selects and stabilizes the relevant signal through alpha waves. Then theta waves actively suppress the distraction.

doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#neuroscience
Sequential alpha and theta dynamics resolve competition between rival visual stimuli
doi.org
September 16, 2026 at 12:46 PM
My phone is trolling me. Autocorrected pedicure with Medicare. 😬
September 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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This paper shows how measures and constructs in psychology get introduced but rarely reused. Would love to see a similar analysis done on methods of analyzing neural data.

A Fragmented Field: Construct and Measure Proliferation in Psychology" Anvari et al., 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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New ep! 🚨 We’re kicking off our new series, “A Conversation with a Future Luminary,” hosted by @jennadistefano.bsky.social, spotlighting grad student life and research. First up: Rachel Foster on grad school, sociocultural influences on delay of gratification, and more!
itsinnate.fireside.fm/43
The ultimate delay of gratification test? Graduate school.
itsinnate.fireside.fm
August 27, 2026 at 11:31 PM
fu academia, do better
August 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
www.cos.io
August 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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Updates to NIH K awards starting with October 2027 deadlines. The individual K awards are being consolidated into 4 awards. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-098: Notice of NIH Updates to Career Development (K) Award Programs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIH Updates to Career Development (K) Award Programs NOT-OD-26-098. OD
grants.nih.gov
August 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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New paper! We found basic scene selectivity arises across the scene network early in infancy (i.e., by ~3.5 months old), prior to independent navigation experience

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The cortical scene processing network emerges in infancy, prior to independent navigation experience | PNAS
Sighted people rely on vision to recognize and navigate the local environment. By adulthood, human cortex contains at least three regions that resp...
www.pnas.org
July 29, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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It's often said that play is the work of the child, and research continues to back that up. Kids aren't just having fun when they play—they're building creativity, empathy, emotional regulation and other skills that can last a lifetime.

theconversation.com/play-is-esse...
July 29, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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📖How do children learn to read?
"Even when children within a classroom receive the same reading instruction... they learn at different paces."
Iliana Karipidis, Simon Rammerstorfer & Silvia Brem explain that reading develops at different paces for different children.
boldscience.org/how-do-child...
How do children learn to read?
Reading develops at different paces for different children
boldscience.org
June 9, 2026 at 8:52 AM
I think “Compliance Fridays”should be a thing. My day: completed the common form c & p doc, wrote & uploaded RPPR docs, a 3 hour research security training featuring Mork & Mindy, IRB edits, and finally textbook adoption & “simple” syllabus creation. This is all stuff I do just so I can do my job.
May 29, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Great story and interview with former @bcdlab.bsky.social member @charissepickron.bsky.social about her work at the U of M’s Institute of Child Development! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Inside the U’s baby science research lab, a look at how the world learns
The University of Minnesota Child Brain and Perception Lab explores how infants and toddlers make sense of the people around them. MPR News spent a day recently at the lab watching one of the “pilot b...
www.mprnews.org
May 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back. www.wired.com/story/compan...
Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons
Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back.
www.wired.com
May 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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New ep! 🚨

In Part I of this 2-part episode, Jenny & Deon discuss connectionist modeling, developmental change, developmental tasks, one-hot vs. distributed representations, the give-N task, Bayesian models, Marr’s levels, & more. Stay tuned for Part II!

itsinnate.fireside.fm/38
Give-N you Bayes and Backpropagation (Pt. I)
itsinnate.fireside.fm
May 15, 2026 at 3:10 PM
When under anesthesia, the hippocampus is listening to, categorizing, and predicting the meaning of words and sounds. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature
In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.
www.nature.com
May 8, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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So excited to see this fabulous work by stellar MD-PhD student Briana Macedo now out as a preprint. Briana reports some of the strongest results I've ever seen -- very strong (25% variance, out-of-sample) associations between the childhood environment and white matter. Thread below!
How much does the childhood environment shape the brain?

In our new preprint, we study the exposome (300+ environmental exposures) and link it to white matter structure in 8,000+ kids. 🧠✨

🔗 Read the preprint: bit.ly/4wfsybZ

🧵 Thread below
White matter reflects the childhood exposome
The childhood environment is critical for brain development. However, most neuroimaging studies examine individual environmental measures (e.g., socioeconomic status) or a limited set of exposures, obscuring how the combination of complex, real-world exposures jointly influence brain development. Here we investigated how white matter shape and tissue properties are linked to the childhood exposome, a multidimensional measure capturing over 300 environmental exposures. Using multi-shell diffusion MRI from 8,183 children (ages 9-10) in the ABCD study, we quantified microstructural and macrostructural properties across 62 person-specific white matter tracts. The exposome showed widespread and highly replicable associations with both white matter microstructure and macrostructure: more advantaged environments were associated with larger tract macrostructure and lower orientation dispersion. Principal component analysis revealed that the dominant axis of exposome-white matter covariation aligns with the cortical sensorimotor-association hierarchy, such that tracts spanning this hierarchy exhibit the strongest associations with the exposome. Multivariate models demonstrated that patterns of white matter features explained 25% of the variance in the exposome in unseen individuals. Notably, white matter-based prediction of cognition was markedly reduced after accounting for the exposome (~82% reduction in explained variance), indicating that brain-cognition associations overlap substantially with variance captured by the exposome. These findings generalized to independent data from the Healthy Brain Network (n=869), which differs substantially from ABCD in MRI acquisition, participant selection, and childhood environments. Together, these results suggest that white matter architecture strongly reflects the childhood environment. ### Competing Interest Statement A.A.B. has consulted for Octave Bioscience and holds equity in Centile Bioscience. RB is on the Advisory Board and holds equity in Taliaz Health. D.A.F. is a founder of Turing Medical. Any potential conflict of interest has been reviewed and managed by the University of Minnesota. D.A.F. is an inventor of the FIRMM Technology 2198 (FIRMM, real-time monitoring and prediction of motion in MRI scans, exclusively licensed to Turing Medical). Any potential conflict of interest has been reviewed and managed by the University of Minnesota. This research was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (T32MH019112 to S.L.M.; R37MH125829 to D.A.F. and T.D.S.; 2R01MH112847 to R.T.S. and T.D.S.; R01MH120482 to T.D.S.; 2R01MH113550 to T.D.S.; R01MH123550 to R.T.S; F30MH138048 to K.Y.S.; RF1MH121868, RF1MH121867, RF1MH126699, R01AG060942, U19AG066567, R01EY033628, and R01EB027585 to A.R.; R01MH134886 to R.B.; T32MH016804 and T32MH018951 to V.J.S; R01MH133843 to A.A.B.; F31MH136685 to J.B.). S.L.M. was supported by the Hartwell Foundation (S.L.M.); G.S. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). A.S.K. is supported by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. M.D.H. was supported by the German Research Foundation (project number 572317568). LMS was supported by a NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (#2507497).
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May 7, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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A pigeon displays auto-shaping in the wild. BF Skinner would be proud.

(This is a post for old academic psychology sorts who remember their behaviorism.)
“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)
May 6, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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Finally, this double dissociation is quite cool because aIns and dACC often co-activate and are thought of as being part of the same network (salience network). Here, we show that they bias learning from feedback in two different ways: ... 7/9
May 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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“Everyday experiences – playing with friends, eating a meal, reading a book, spending time alone – have an impact on development.”
@elmanubohn.bsky.social explains how different experiences foster learning in different cultural contexts. #ChildDevelopment
boldscience.org/how-do-child...
How do children learn through everyday experiences?
Different experiences foster learning in different cultural contexts
boldscience.org
March 24, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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My close friend/colleague (Dr Pengfei Xu) has published an impressive 7-yr prospective study with nearly 400 young people, showing that functional brain dynamics in early childhood relate to adolescent anxiety and depression. www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #PsychSciSky
Childhood electroencephalographic signatures predict distinct developmental trajectories to adolescent anxiety and depression
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of anxiety and depression, yet their neurodevelopmental origins remain unclear.
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
March 24, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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The #MatildaEffect (systematic denial of recognition to women scientists) was named after suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage (d. #OTD in 1898).

"The woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time" was a writer, activist, abolitionist & Native American rights advocate. #WomensHistoryMonth
March 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Once a year I ask my students to imagine a red star.

It’s cognitive psychology and we are about to talk about whether “imagery” is the same or different from “perception”, but first, I like to check in on what our class experience when we imagine something.

Friends, the results NEVER disappoint!
March 21, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Lego brain! Very relaxing spring break activity!
March 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World

Jody C. Culham and Eva Deligiannis

👀🧠 #neuroskyence

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World
Vision science has demonstrated considerable success in characterizing early- and mid-level visual processes through reductionism and tightly controlled experiments. However, an understanding of high-...
www.annualreviews.org
March 12, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
March 7, 2026 at 1:59 AM