New preprint led by @claireecusack.bsky.social, w/ @sarahevictor.bsky.social: "Configural conditions for suicidal ideation and self-injurious urges: A preregistered out-of-sample validation of two set-theoretic engines" The first application of configural methods to EMA data.
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August 27, 2026 at 11:23 PM
New preprint led by @claireecusack.bsky.social, w/ @sarahevictor.bsky.social: "Configural conditions for suicidal ideation and self-injurious urges: A preregistered out-of-sample validation of two set-theoretic engines" The first application of configural methods to EMA data.
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I feel like psychometrics is uniquely bad at naming things. Parallel, congeneric, tau-equivalent, essentially tau-equivalent measures? Configural, metric, scalar, residual invariance? Item difficulty defined so that the higher the difficulty, the easier the item???
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I feel like psychometrics is uniquely bad at naming things. Parallel, congeneric, tau-equivalent, essentially tau-equivalent measures? Configural, metric, scalar, residual invariance? Item difficulty defined so that the higher the difficulty, the easier the item???
I realized that I was invoking the term 'configural psychometrics' on my updated website without defining the term. In fact it's a whole framework! So, I just sank half the day into writing this page that explains the framework from top to bottom. Enjoy!
www.dynamicpsychlab.com/configural-p...
www.dynamicpsychlab.com/configural-p...
Configural Psychometrics — Idiographic Dynamics (ID) Laboratory
www.dynamicpsychlab.com
July 26, 2026 at 3:11 AM
I realized that I was invoking the term 'configural psychometrics' on my updated website without defining the term. In fact it's a whole framework! So, I just sank half the day into writing this page that explains the framework from top to bottom. Enjoy!
www.dynamicpsychlab.com/configural-p...
www.dynamicpsychlab.com/configural-p...
Let’s put together a symposium and party in Seattle! Seriously, let’s chat about ideas. I’m thinking about symptoms in people in moments; identifying risky moments; configural psychometrics in time series data with @aaronjfisher.bsky.social. Please reach out if interested!
Submissions for our 2027 Annual Convention open on October 15! There's a few changes for 2027, including submission types:
Empirical Research
Systematic Review
Meta-Analysis and Meta-Synthesis
Methods and Applications
www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
Empirical Research
Systematic Review
Meta-Analysis and Meta-Synthesis
Methods and Applications
www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
September 24, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Let’s put together a symposium and party in Seattle! Seriously, let’s chat about ideas. I’m thinking about symptoms in people in moments; identifying risky moments; configural psychometrics in time series data with @aaronjfisher.bsky.social. Please reach out if interested!
This is my PhD thesis
I did not ask for this
I did not consent to this
I did not approve of this
I was not compensated for this
I would not have advised this
I do not like this
And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.
I did not ask for this
I did not consent to this
I did not approve of this
I was not compensated for this
I would not have advised this
I do not like this
And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.
June 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is my PhD thesis
I did not ask for this
I did not consent to this
I did not approve of this
I was not compensated for this
I would not have advised this
I do not like this
And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.
I did not ask for this
I did not consent to this
I did not approve of this
I was not compensated for this
I would not have advised this
I do not like this
And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.
One of the advantages of the configural approach is that it only examines presence and concurrence. So, you're only ever looking at those that have something, rather than those that don't. And I'm finding that the HiTOP works really nicely under configural analysis. 1/
Reposted first, finally read it.
Has me wondering about how if we restricted for no Psychopathology in large epi samples that we've used to sort of validate the dimensional structure (HiTOP) like the NESARC, how different would the structure look?
Has me wondering about how if we restricted for no Psychopathology in large epi samples that we've used to sort of validate the dimensional structure (HiTOP) like the NESARC, how different would the structure look?
Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄
For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?
For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?
July 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
One of the advantages of the configural approach is that it only examines presence and concurrence. So, you're only ever looking at those that have something, rather than those that don't. And I'm finding that the HiTOP works really nicely under configural analysis. 1/
#NeuroAI
How do we make our ANNs shape-biased? -> There's a theory on how humans develop configural processing -> Instantiate computationally (requiring deep surveys in neurosci/cogsci) -> It works! Here's a completely new breed of shape-biased vision ANNs 👇
How do we make our ANNs shape-biased? -> There's a theory on how humans develop configural processing -> Instantiate computationally (requiring deep surveys in neurosci/cogsci) -> It works! Here's a completely new breed of shape-biased vision ANNs 👇
Now out in Nature Machine Intelligence @NatMachIntell “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision”:
doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI.
With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .
doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI.
With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .
May 11, 2026 at 5:59 PM
#NeuroAI
How do we make our ANNs shape-biased? -> There's a theory on how humans develop configural processing -> Instantiate computationally (requiring deep surveys in neurosci/cogsci) -> It works! Here's a completely new breed of shape-biased vision ANNs 👇
How do we make our ANNs shape-biased? -> There's a theory on how humans develop configural processing -> Instantiate computationally (requiring deep surveys in neurosci/cogsci) -> It works! Here's a completely new breed of shape-biased vision ANNs 👇
Hey folks! Check out our new preprint!📍
Bridging animal and human research, we dynamically manipulated contextual properties in VR to investigate how elemental and configural representations interact to shape the human defensive system across multiple response domains.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Bridging animal and human research, we dynamically manipulated contextual properties in VR to investigate how elemental and configural representations interact to shape the human defensive system across multiple response domains.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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September 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Hey folks! Check out our new preprint!📍
Bridging animal and human research, we dynamically manipulated contextual properties in VR to investigate how elemental and configural representations interact to shape the human defensive system across multiple response domains.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Bridging animal and human research, we dynamically manipulated contextual properties in VR to investigate how elemental and configural representations interact to shape the human defensive system across multiple response domains.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Come chat configural and featural processing with @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social, she is presenting NOW! #VSS2026
May 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Come chat configural and featural processing with @yuxuanzeng.bsky.social, she is presenting NOW! #VSS2026
Excited about this work!
Here we take the configural psychometric framework to individual time series data. Please see Aaron’s thread and the preprint for the specs. Curious to hear folks’ thoughts!
Here we take the configural psychometric framework to individual time series data. Please see Aaron’s thread and the preprint for the specs. Curious to hear folks’ thoughts!
New preprint led by @claireecusack.bsky.social, w/ @sarahevictor.bsky.social: "Configural conditions for suicidal ideation and self-injurious urges: A preregistered out-of-sample validation of two set-theoretic engines" The first application of configural methods to EMA data.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
August 28, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Excited about this work!
Here we take the configural psychometric framework to individual time series data. Please see Aaron’s thread and the preprint for the specs. Curious to hear folks’ thoughts!
Here we take the configural psychometric framework to individual time series data. Please see Aaron’s thread and the preprint for the specs. Curious to hear folks’ thoughts!
Our new paper out in Hippocampus! With Han Cheng and Dot Overington: A configural context signal simultaneously but separably drives positioning and orientation of hippocampal place fields onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A configural context signal simultaneously but separably drives positioning and orientation of hippo...
Hippocampus is an international neuroscience journal exploring the hippocampal formation and its interactions with other brain regions.
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December 3, 2023 at 2:31 PM
Our new paper out in Hippocampus! With Han Cheng and Dot Overington: A configural context signal simultaneously but separably drives positioning and orientation of hippocampal place fields onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I can think of plenty of configural reasons to do this, yes an all upper setup makes more sense to me, but the tradeoffs aren’t those that can be eyeballed
December 26, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I can think of plenty of configural reasons to do this, yes an all upper setup makes more sense to me, but the tradeoffs aren’t those that can be eyeballed
Research has shown that bees use a technique called "configural processing," similar to how humans recognize faces—by analyzing the arrangement of facial features. This ability helps them distinguish between flowers and potentially remember familiar humans.
May 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Research has shown that bees use a technique called "configural processing," similar to how humans recognize faces—by analyzing the arrangement of facial features. This ability helps them distinguish between flowers and potentially remember familiar humans.
Music-reading expertise associates with configural face processing but not featural face processing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Behavioral & ERP data suggested that music-reading expertise was associated with configural face but not featural face processing
January 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Music-reading expertise associates with configural face processing but not featural face processing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Behavioral & ERP data suggested that music-reading expertise was associated with configural face but not featural face processing
I don't think one would think much of the blurry, underdeveloped vision that babies have. But apparently, if you miss a few months of vision after birth, you acquire configural processing deficits (you cannot readily distinguish faces based on relative positioning of the nose, lips, and eyes)! 1/7
July 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I don't think one would think much of the blurry, underdeveloped vision that babies have. But apparently, if you miss a few months of vision after birth, you acquire configural processing deficits (you cannot readily distinguish faces based on relative positioning of the nose, lips, and eyes)! 1/7
If we define "configural units" as units that receive converging inputs from multiple stimuli; then any neural network is probably "configural", and some might perform operations that we deem "hierarchical"
December 2, 2024 at 9:30 PM
If we define "configural units" as units that receive converging inputs from multiple stimuli; then any neural network is probably "configural", and some might perform operations that we deem "hierarchical"
3/3 This is called configural learning and requires the integration of stimuli into learning. Some have even suggested that it can be "be seen as an initial primitive manifestation of consciousness"
(paper, 2024) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-06...
(paper, 2024) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-06...
July 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
3/3 This is called configural learning and requires the integration of stimuli into learning. Some have even suggested that it can be "be seen as an initial primitive manifestation of consciousness"
(paper, 2024) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-06...
(paper, 2024) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-06...
MAGA facist extremists, radical White "Christian" Nationalists, White supremacists created a polarizing Impact of Political Disinformation, lies, Hate Speech, divisisness cross-country configural narrative to impose their totalitarian dictatorial oppressive ideology on all of us. PURE FASCISM
January 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
MAGA facist extremists, radical White "Christian" Nationalists, White supremacists created a polarizing Impact of Political Disinformation, lies, Hate Speech, divisisness cross-country configural narrative to impose their totalitarian dictatorial oppressive ideology on all of us. PURE FASCISM
Cool paper on configural context and place cells from @katejj.bsky.social Lab
December 4, 2023 at 4:54 PM
Cool paper on configural context and place cells from @katejj.bsky.social Lab
New collaborative publication between GT and Emory CRaNE members - introducing the NARA and a new open-source virtual city environment for assessing configural spatial memory, led by Yasmine Bassil, M. Borich
@thackerybrown.bsky.social
@gtsciences.bsky.social
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@thackerybrown.bsky.social
@gtsciences.bsky.social
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Formation of allocentric representations after exposure to a novel, naturalistic, city-like, virtual reality environment
During human spatial navigation, individuals transform visuospatial information between egocentric (i.e., first-person, viewer-dependent, body-centere…
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October 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
New collaborative publication between GT and Emory CRaNE members - introducing the NARA and a new open-source virtual city environment for assessing configural spatial memory, led by Yasmine Bassil, M. Borich
@thackerybrown.bsky.social
@gtsciences.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@thackerybrown.bsky.social
@gtsciences.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Jul 01, 1923 Herman Chernoff born in New York, USA 🇺🇸
1973: Cartoons of human face to represent multivariate data -- idea that people are sensitive to configural properties of faces.
'Chernoff face' displays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernof...
🎂Jul 01, 1923 Herman Chernoff born in New York, USA 🇺🇸
1973: Cartoons of human face to represent multivariate data -- idea that people are sensitive to configural properties of faces.
'Chernoff face' displays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernof...
Chernoff face - Wikipedia
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July 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Jul 01, 1923 Herman Chernoff born in New York, USA 🇺🇸
1973: Cartoons of human face to represent multivariate data -- idea that people are sensitive to configural properties of faces.
'Chernoff face' displays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernof...
🎂Jul 01, 1923 Herman Chernoff born in New York, USA 🇺🇸
1973: Cartoons of human face to represent multivariate data -- idea that people are sensitive to configural properties of faces.
'Chernoff face' displays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernof...
And, BTW, this stuff is an extension of my recent target article in JPCS: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-..., which we've recently replicated in the NESARC wave sample (w/ Ashley and @lluaces.bsky.social). Hopefully that will be out soon. Happy to chat about configural analyses if you're curious! 9/9
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
July 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
And, BTW, this stuff is an extension of my recent target article in JPCS: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-..., which we've recently replicated in the NESARC wave sample (w/ Ashley and @lluaces.bsky.social). Hopefully that will be out soon. Happy to chat about configural analyses if you're curious! 9/9
Another place where the configural approach shines. It's especially well-suited to identifying specialized and/or small IV-DV subpopulations. In our HiTOP analyses, SI and other 'rare' symptoms from the somatoform cluster prove to be critical predictors in specific subgroups of the sample.
.. is the least common DSM MDD symptom and even in clinical populations shows floor effects on typical ordinal symptom scales. These items can't predict diagnostic status well due to lack of power stemming from floor effects.
July 18, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Another place where the configural approach shines. It's especially well-suited to identifying specialized and/or small IV-DV subpopulations. In our HiTOP analyses, SI and other 'rare' symptoms from the somatoform cluster prove to be critical predictors in specific subgroups of the sample.
Another paper: Perceptual organization is limited in peripheral vision: Evidence from configural superiority jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
Perceptual organization is limited in peripheral vision: Evidence from configural superiority | JOV | ARVO Journals
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September 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Another paper: Perceptual organization is limited in peripheral vision: Evidence from configural superiority jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
New paper! We examined how affective experience+drive to explore spaces can shape memory, emphasizing that "complexity" is a moderator and only part of the story for configural learning
@crane-navsci.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
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@crane-navsci.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
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“The architecture of curiosity: How spatial configuration influences affect, exploration, and memory”
Curiosity is a key driver of exploration and learning. Prior empirical studies have largely focused on internal mechanisms of curiosity and not its in…
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May 26, 2026 at 1:56 PM
New paper! We examined how affective experience+drive to explore spaces can shape memory, emphasizing that "complexity" is a moderator and only part of the story for configural learning
@crane-navsci.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@crane-navsci.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social
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