“As if an angel dropped down from the clouds”, William Blake's 1809 illustration to Henry IV by a certain William Shakespeare whose birthday is celebrated #onthisday in 1564 (also his death day in 1616).

See our collection of art inspired by his plays: buff.ly/2IBS2YF

2/2 The young artist at work: J.M.W. Turner at his drawing table, sketched by Thomas Monro in 1795. Today is Turner's birthday.

An exciting event to look forward to in June theoldmarket.com/shows/think-ag…

Having a chat and then watching a movie: how social interaction synchronises our brains during co-watching academic.oup.com/oons/article/d…

We’re all Bayesian

25% of people with severe mental illness have physical multimorbidity.

Coming up tomorrow, our next #HistSci seminar, 19 April at 2:30pm (Europe/London): a roundtable discussion of the ambitious digitisation programme, Science in the Making Daniel Belteki Anne McLaughlin #HistSTM #HSTM #PhilTrans ow.ly/Ohne50Rf5h0

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What can computational models tell us about social learning? What can’t they tell us (yet)? 🧠

A new paper from me and Cecilia Heyes

Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences Oxford ExpPsychology
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The CORE LANG SYSTEM is implemented in the language network—a set of left-lateralized frontal+temporal areas that1️⃣engage during comprehension (👂👁️)+production (👄✍️🤌)
and2️⃣respond across task contexts. Basically:whenever you are doing language, these areas are hard at work!3/n

TLDR: The🧠language network is distinct from i)perceptual+premotor lang-relev. mechanisms (eg,speech perception+Broca’s articulation areas)—selective for ling inputs/outputs but insensitive to meaning; and ii)systems of thought—important for language use but not lang-specific.2/n

Mary Wortley Montagu, famous not just for her campaign for vaccination...

Science produces enormous value for our society.
The next government must make long-term decisions that ensure the UK has a science ecosystem in which fundamental research discoveries can provide the foundations to a more resilient and prosperous future. #ManifestoForScience

Last few slots available to participate in our peer-learning study! You must be in Cambridge (or close by), be 16-18 years old and be curious about many rare items! It takes about 1.15h and you'll get compensated with £12.50. To sign up: sites.google.com/site/blakemore…

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🚨WE'RE HIRING🚨 We are looking for a Clinical Research Fellow to carry out research in the area of Cognitive Neuroscience relating to mental health & physical exercise

Apply here👇
ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Undocumented immigrants have lower felony arrest rates than legal immigrants and native-born US citizens. Findings challenge assumptions about the effectiveness of aggressive immigrant removal programs.

In The Associated Press: ow.ly/pEWe50RatPb

In PNAS: ow.ly/r0Rf50RatPc

“Infants’ brain responses to social interaction predict future language growth” by Alexis Bosseler et al. Current Biology

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New pre-print from us!

Association between paediatric mild traumatic brain injury and two-year psychiatric outcomes largely explained by pre-existing mental health problems🧠
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Vaughan Bell Anthony David norman poole Christina Carlisi

I’m currently reading it and it’s brilliant.

Enticing thread