We talk about an “attention crisis,” blaming poor academic performance on students’ attention deficits. But are long-term traits (ADHD symptoms) really to blame? Or is it our immediate focus? We test this - by measuring brain-to-brain synchrony as students learned from short educational videos. 🧠

As we listen to good stories over the holidays, did you know that our eyes move, pupils dilate and heart rate goes up and down in unison with the people that listen to the same story? Check out these videos and tell me, what makes our eyes move? jensmadsen.com/synchronized...

Matthias Nau

matthiasnau.bsky.social

26 September 2025 12:34

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

Matthias Nau

matthiasnau.bsky.social

26 September 2025 12:34

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Nature Human Behaviour

nathumbehav.nature.com

26 September 2025 12:29

In this new study, Liu et al. examine the role of sustained neural activity in the planning and production of speech sequences.