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markhaselgrove.bsky.social
Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Interested in associative learning, and its application to all manner of stuff. Not really interested in brains. He/him. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=fObPQPsAAAAJ&hl=en
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@emp1.bsky.social Hi there, hope you are doing OK. Am doing some collaboration with a chum in Oxford who is getting a hint of, what can only be described as, mediated latent inhibition. I noted that your 2024 simulations of DDA predicts the presence of this effect. Has it been reported elsewhere?

I am currently an intermediary between my university and another. Both have cut admin staff, and at least one has recently invested in a (mostly) unusable Oracle-based finance system. In the name of savings and efficiency.

Why overstate & oversell instead of reporting what actually was found? This is not a study on communication. It concerns how chimpanzees hit trees ("drumming bouts") & includes no data on what effect this may have. Surface level similarities can be deceitful. Many frogs have better musical swag.

Dangerously addictive and difficult game!

Great start to the week. "Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC. Will get a preprint up and available soon.

Previous studies have shown that some bird and mammal species prefer access to advance information about their future - a trend that may be related to associative processes or to a special appetite for knowledge.

Great start to the week. "Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC. Will get a preprint up and available soon.

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫 A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology. Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

Sunday night film. Eminently quotable from beginning to end.

Posted! Vote for job security at University of Nottingham. Yes for strike action and ASOS. Bad enough these huge redundancies. Absolutely No compulsory redundancies!

The Langdale Pikes and Fairfield Horseshoe from Wray Castle

The Langdale Pikes and Fairfield Horseshoe from Wray Castle

Quick bit of R&R before the marking onslaught begins. Grasmere at golden hour...

Ah, yes, forgot this one. "Crow statistical inference" does not seem to stand to scrutiny, either. A learning model accounts well for data, refuting Johnston et al.'s claims of crows calculating reward probabilities with some abstract magnitude representation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Are you sure I don't often get email from this address?

Are you sure I don't often get email from this address?

Scientists, I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature: Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk. It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.

A quick shout out for the online meetings on the Psychology of Associative Learning and Memory (PALM). Next meeting is on June 6th and is a talk by Mark Bouton, University of Vermont. "Paying attention (or not) to what you are doing: Habit, goal direction, and inhibition in operant learning" 1/2

A quick shout out for the online meetings on the Psychology of Associative Learning and Memory (PALM). Next meeting is on June 6th and is a talk by Mark Bouton, University of Vermont. "Paying attention (or not) to what you are doing: Habit, goal direction, and inhibition in operant learning" 1/2

In a bizarre coincidence following last night's escapades, Haselgrove jnr's English Language GCSE exam source material asked her to respond to: "A night with no electricity"

In a bizarre coincidence following last night's escapades, Haselgrove jnr's English Language GCSE exam source material asked her to respond to: "A night with no electricity"