​​Flip 8 imaginary coins. Now roll 8 imaginary dice. Now pick 8 random spots on a screen. These tasks are all different, yet you might have a unique 'random fingerprint' that applies across them. See more in a new paper with @samiyousif.bsky.social, now in press @ Open Mind. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I needed to know what day the semester ends at my own university; it only took me a web search and 8 separate clicks to find

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Stoked this is out!! “Go-before-you-know” reaching during fMRI shows a shift toward feedforward control with aging. rdcu.be/iJ1CsQeDMDxa I love our team, feel lucky to be part of it, and we are so grateful to the A+ reviewers who made it better. @commsbio.nature.com @uoregon.bsky.social

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"Cognition, it turns out, is not confined to higher-order cortex; it surfaces in incidental movements carrying latent variables the brain computes — even ones it never acts on." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Interesting. But paralyzed people can still think, so is the body really necessary?

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Then there was the time that a grant applicant left in the sentence "If Aim 1 doesn't work, we're fucked" in their grant. The panel agreed.

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