Learning and Attention Lab

We study Reward & Punishment learning, Attention, Perception. Addiction & other psychopathologies

[Learning and Attention Lab @AndersonTamu]

Listen in to the Under the Cortex Mini Episode with our PI Brian to find out a bit more about what we do in our lab 👀🧠 https://t.co/MMSF4oUQ46

[Texas A&M Psychological and Brain Sciences @tamupsycbrain]

Congratulations to former student Rebecca Warren on receiving a @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! She was mentored by @AndersonTamu at A&M.

[René Freichel @renefreichel]

🧵Our experimental study is finally published in the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology! We show that attention is modulated by both reward- and punishment-related distractors, but it remains unclear how this relates to psychopathology!
https://t.co/bORpLn72XA

[René Freichel @renefreichel]

2/ 🎮 Our primary goal? To see how the gamified VMAC relates to substance use problems & addictive behaviors.

[René Freichel @renefreichel]

🧪🍺 Check out our new preprint: https://t.co/uWMsYyop1h We studied attentional biases towards reward stimuli and their implications in psychopathology, especially substance use-related problems. Here's a breakdown🧵:

[Cognition @CognitionJourn]

Statistical learning can enable more optimal search strategies by biasing which features observers choose to search for. This expands our knowledge of how selection history influences the goal-directed control of attention @AndersonTamu

https://t.co/Qw93v7FHxF

[Nicholas Gaspelin @nickgaspelin]

Excited to announce a new article at PB&R! We developed a psychophysical metric of salience and then tested it's role in attentional capture. The results might surprise you...

Read more about it on my blog!
https://t.co/HDL7K39xxj

[René Freichel @renefreichel]

‼️New preprint based on experimental data we collected. Attention is modulated by both reward- and punishment-related distractors, but it remains unclear how this attentional capture relates to psychopathology.
https://t.co/vCLN6zY33R

[Nicholas Gaspelin @nickgaspelin]

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 I am looking for a postdoc to study attentional capture and distraction using eye tracking and EEG. This position is for 2 years minimum and will begin Fall 2023 at the University of Missouri.

More details and an application here:
https://t.co/NM8FFonzXS

[Nicholas Gaspelin @nickgaspelin]

This summer, I will be teaching an NSF-funded virtual workshop on "R Programming for Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience" meant for undergraduates and beginning graduate students. More information—including a syllabus and application—can be found here:
https://t.co/umRVyiR4oL

[Texas A&M Psychological and Brain Sciences @tamupsycbrain]

Congrats to our faculty who are new fellows!
Heather Lench and affiliated member Jeff Liew: APA
Jessica Bernard (@BernardLCMNLab), Rebecca Schlegel (@schlegelrj), and Brian Anderson (@AndersonTamu): APS

[Steven Ge @StevenXGe]

Happy holidays! Introducing https://t.co/Ub3wgs1KVz, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8

[Patrick F. Bloniasz (he/him) @PatrickBloniasz]

[1/n] Final call: I am offering a free Zoom "Intro to R" data wrangling workshop on January 14th, 2023 after popular demand. I will teach basic base R and Tidyverse. All disciplines and beginner* R skill levels are welcome. @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics

[Lauren Ball @ProfLaurenBall]

Very useful! How to write scientific article: Step by step guide for beginners 👏

https://t.co/1T6yqQHzkr

#phd #research #researcher #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter

[Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] @Nancy_Kanwisher]

This paper i an absolute gem:
https://t.co/SZo9oOB5AY
Great science, great writing, and a wonderful conclusion about scientific writing.
I laughed out loud multiple times reading it.
Hats off!

[PsychoPy @psychopy.bsky.social @psychopy]

👀 Seeking an alternative to Qualtrics 📋 ?

Pavlovia now has a new **Survey Creator**. You can even directly import Qualtrics QSF files!

Watch our Pavlovia Surveys launch webinar here to get started
https://t.co/0eGwzqqyf8

[@IAmSciComm - On a Break! @iamscicomm]

Some chart types are used all the time. Think:

Box plots
Pie charts
Heat maps
Paired bar charts
Correlation matrix

But just because a chart is used all the time doesn't mean it's good for your use case.

Let's explore some alternatives that may work better for you.

[Texas A&M Psychological and Brain Sciences @tamupsycbrain]

Congrats to the winners of the 2nd year poster session and to all the graduate students who presented their work to the Department.
1st Place: Dun Ya Hu
2nd Place: Gregory Vogt
3rd Place: Sonjung Youn

Special Mention: Jasmine Alli, Shannon MacDonald

[Armadillo Conference @ARMADILLOConf]

Andrew Clement from @TAMU talking about attentional control based on work from Kool and the gang

[Matthew K. Robison @matthewkrobison]

Cool new study in AP&P showing that both trial-by-trial and blockwise feedback reduce oculomotor attentional capture. Nicely goes along with what we’ve found with in sustained attention https://t.co/4vL1zMDnou @AndersonTamu

[Alexander (Sasha) Pastukhov @PastukhovSasha]

Good news if you need to import Eyelink recordings for analysis in R: eyelinkReader package is on CRAN! Import events and samples directly from EDF files, parse them into specific events such as saccades, fixaitions, etc. Works on Mac, Linux, and Windows. https://t.co/0LoxHObCQ4