Awesome Cognitive and Neuroscience Skills
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Skills that encode expert methodological knowledge for cognitive science and neuroscience research. One-command install, one-command paper-to-skill, one-command contribute — vibe researching starts here.
Vibe research: Complete specialized research subtasks (experimental design, data preprocessing, visualization, etc.) through conversational CLI interaction — no manual searching through documentation or papers.
⚠️ AI-Generated Content Notice
All skills in this repository were generated by AI from academic papers and other publicly available sources. While automated hallucination checks were applied during generation, the content has not been individually verified by human domain experts. Specific numerical parameters, citations, and methodological recommendations may contain errors.
You MUST independently verify all parameters and citations before using them in research. This repository is not a substitute for peer-reviewed guidelines or expert consultation. Contributions that verify, correct, or improve existing skills are strongly encouraged — see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Quick Start
Install directly in Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add HaoxuanLiTHUAI/awesome_cognitive_and_neuroscience_skills
/plugin install awesome-cognitive-and-neuroscience-skills@awesome-cognitive-and-neuroscience-skills
Then restart Claude Code to activate the skills.
All 41 skills become immediately available. Skills activate automatically when you ask research methodology questions:
- "Help me design an oddball paradigm for N400 research"
- "What preprocessing pipeline should I use for my fMRI data?"
- "Which drift-diffusion model variant fits my task-switching RT data?"
Manage your installation:
/plugin list # View installed plugins and skills
/plugin update awesome-cognitive-and-neuroscience-skills # Update to the latest version
/plugin update --all # (Optional) Update all installed plugins
/plugin remove awesome-cognitive-and-neuroscience-skills # Uninstall
Enable auto-update (recommended): Keep skills up-to-date automatically — /plugin → Marketplace → awesome-cognitive-and-neuroscience-skills → Enable auto-update.
Skills may cross-reference each other (e.g., fmri-preprocessing-pipeline-guide feeds into fmri-glm-analysis-guide), but each skill is independently usable.
Classification Criteria
Skills are classified primarily by research content domain — the scientific questions and phenomena they address. The classification follows standard academic disciplinary boundaries as recognized by major scientific societies (e.g., Cognitive Science Society, Society for Neuroscience) and established textbooks.
Rules:
- Each skill is assigned to the content domain whose research questions it primarily serves
- Skills that substantially serve multiple existing categories are listed in all applicable categories
- Cross-Domain Foundation skills encode methodology applicable across most or all domains
- Others contains skills that do not fit neatly into a single content domain — for example, cross-cutting methodology that spans multiple neuroimaging modalities rather than addressing a specific research question
Skills Catalog
41 skills across 13 categories
Meta-Skills (5)
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
paper-to-skill | Extract methodology from papers into structured, reusable skills |
share-case | One-command community case sharing to GitHub Discussions |
share-usage | Share anonymized skill usage statistics to help prioritize development |
contribute-skill | One-command skill contribution via GitHub Issues |
verify-skill | Interactive skill verification with structured expert review |