Sam McDougle
@smickdougle
Asst. Prof. @Yale Psychology
Everyone: don't rank Cuomo, a serial groping disgraced grandmother killer New York Times: don't rank Mamdani, a visionary young man
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD apps this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out w/ any questions!
Octopuses fall for the “rubber arm” illusion, just like us. Learn more: scim.ag/4lFoxrF @NewsfromScience
.@lisaskwon and @samkbloch talk his new book "Shade," Los Angeles’s rollbacks on solutions to extreme heat, challenging demonizing narratives about shade, and shade advocacy that isn’t rooted in volunteerism. lareviewofbooks.org/article/its-on…
Excited to see the work during my undergrad times finally come out! Learned so much from working with Sam and Anne on this project.
New paper out at @CognitionJourn, with Anne Collins and Ham Huang -> "Dual effects of dual-tasking on instrumental learning" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
New paper out at @CognitionJourn, with Anne Collins and Ham Huang -> "Dual effects of dual-tasking on instrumental learning" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s41586…
🚨 New preprint alert! Attention isn’t always helpful. We found that dividing attention can boost implicit adaptation—if timed right. A twist on the idea that distraction always impairs performance. w @benmillermills @TimCarroll_UQ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci
Lander and Zohran are modelling what a healthy liberal/left alliance would look like. Whatever happens with election results, this is the model to follow.
Hard to think of a politician in living memory (at least mine) who's acted with more integrity and class than @bradlander has these past few weeks and months—if Zohran pulls it off, Lander's refusal to punch left and fear monger will be a major reason why
the right wing spent millions trying to smear him with disingenuous nonsense rhetoric, and the city said “nah, we’re voting for him”
LOL.
Only place Cuomo is winning in a landslide is Park Avenue.
you can literally just vote out the gerontocrats
Great @Yale News video on dance mechanics and injury, featuring our very own Taylor McClure showing off her ballet skills! news.yale.edu/2025/06/17/pow…
The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
Monday. Diabolical. Article coming soon.
Monday. Diabolical. Article coming soon.
Only one man for the job now
Trump’s FAA pick has claimed 'commercial' pilot license he doesn’t have ow.ly/nmna106bTBq
Our perspective on whether you use only 10 bits/s of you brain.
Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @NatureNeuro: nature.com/articles/s4159…
chuffed! news.yale.edu/2025/06/11/yal… Yale honors three early-career faculty members for ‘groundbreaking’ research | Yale News
In this article, Trach and @smickdougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. nature.com/articles/s4156…
our new paper! 👀
In this article, Trach and @smickdougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. nature.com/articles/s4156…