Ryan Hubbard
@bosscillations
Asst Prof @albanypsych, previously postdoc @CABlabUIUC. Cog neuro, memory, language. First gen. Cat dad, metalhead, drummer (kinda). Views my own. He/him.
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student (maybe even two!) to work in my lab in the Psychology Department here at SUNY Albany! The application deadline for the Cognitive Psychology PhD program for Fall 2025 is January 15th. Read more here: albany.edu/psychology/pro…
Is vivid imagery reported faster than weak imagery? YES. There is an inverse correlation between subjective vividness and RTs in imagery tasks (N=117). doi.org/10.1016/j.cort…
Decoupling speech processing from time Review by John Muegge, Hyoju Kim, & Bob McMurray Free access before Aug 14: tinyurl.com/23csrm98
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Abhishek Anand, Chandra Murthy & Supratim Ray: Burst estimation through atomic decomposition (BEAD): A toolbox to find oscillatory bursts in brain signals doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…
💥 New #ACL2025 main paper!💥 Most #eye #tracking studies collapse fixations into a single “gaze time” metric. We model the full scanpath with a generative probabilistic model. Why? To test how disaggregated modeling stacks up against aggregated approaches.🧵 #Psycholinguistics
Neural tracking: evoked or oscillatory? 🎧🧠 The #TrackingUmbrella paper argues it’s not either/or — both perspectives reveal how our brains align with speech, music, and more. Method matters. Let’s rethink how we measure and interpret tracking! tinyurl.com/ywbe7rrz
Very proud to be associated with this important study that showed evidence for naturalistic speech understanding in two adolescents in a disorder of consciousness following severe brain injury. frontiersin.org/journals/psych…
Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: x.com/marcel_binz/st…
Excited to announce Centaur -- the first foundation model of human cognition. Centaur can predict and simulate human behavior in any experiment expressible in natural language. You can readily download the model from @huggingface and test it yourself: huggingface.co/marcelbinz/Lla…
🚀Out in PNAS! We find that recurrent networks trained with the predictive plasticity rules explain many features of prediction errors observed in experimental studies pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @ClopathLab
New paper! We replicate *,** earlier P600 effects for meaning composition; we also show that composition requires morphosyntactically well-formed words and morphosyntax depends on lexical storage #ERP #EEG sciencedirect.com/science/articl… *doi.org/10.1080/232737… **doi.org/10.1080/232737…
How do memory retrieval and prediction work together during sentence comprehension? We use computational modeling + eye-tracking to unpack their interaction in German possessive pronouns. New paper with @_joaoverissimo, @_mesh and @sol_lago doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.…
Paper just accepted in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. I am super proud of this one. In this paper I introduce my webgazeR package to make webcam tracking easier for folks. Take a read here: jgeller112.github.io/L2_VWP_Webcam/
Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ultimately spoken. @adumbmoron @adeenflinker nature.com/articles/s4427…
Our paper is accepted in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉 We challenge the idea that prediction errors drive event segmentation, showing that contextual stability plays a more dominant role in structuring episodic memories. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/psya…
🤯📈 TAKE YOUR STATS SKILLZ TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH THIS #R PACKAGE 🔥The @easystats4u {modelbased} package (the successor of #ggeffects) is now published in @JOSS_TheOJ joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… Check it out for a demystification of marginal means, contrasts and effects #rlang
Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world (in press, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience). Lead author Chris Allison, with L. Fernandez and T. Lachmann (all RPTU Kaiserslautern) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…
During saccades, visual objects are first processed in the parafovea, then in the fovea upon fixation. Does this repeated exposure cause repetition suppression or information accumulation? MEG work from @TheCHBH suggests both due to neural sharpening. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
I’d like to share some slides and code for a “Memory Model 101 workshop” I gave recently, which has some minimal examples to illustrate the Rumelhart network & catastrophic interference :) slides: shorturl.at/q2iKq code: github.com/qihongl/demo-r…
New paper! We show that eye movements during normal reading (no extra task) are effective at predicting reading comprehension as measured by recall. Both early and late eye-movement measures are key. This research was led by the amazing Diane Mézière. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rr…
How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with S. Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia integrating 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this function. @mrccbu nature.com/articles/s4158… #memory #ptsd @PsychToday @Psychonomic_Soc…