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Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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SSPP 2025: Akshan deAlwis on Attribution of Desire Factive Mentalizing and the Attribution of Desire Akshan deAlwis, Washington University Research on the extent of mentalizing – attributing and tracking the mental states of other minds – is highly heterogeneous. Some research indicates that…

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What makes a concept complex? For decades complexity measures have been stuck in the classical era, suitable only for deterministic (definitional) concepts. But how does it work for probabilistic concepts? Happy to share this new paper (just out in Psych Review)! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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this is a fantastic paper

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Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

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For anyone in the memory field, an incredible summary and tribute to Endel Tulving from Gus Craik. Read it for the writing alone. royalsocietypublishing.org/action/oidcS...

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I've been writing a textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience, which has prompted me to assess the evidence supporting various theoretical ideas. It's striking to me how some ideas have an extraordinary shelf life despite weak evidence.

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Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its style. How does that work? How do we see style? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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New paper! Here, I argue for a special role for computational hypotheses in explaining theory change and development in cognitive neuroscience. Check it out! wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Today at 1 pm Eastern join me for a discussion with Jake Quilty-Dunn. And tomorrow, May 7th, I will be doing an in-person episode with Andrei Buckareff as part of the LaGuardia Undergraduate Philosophy and Social Science conference! Very exciting/exhausting! youtube.com/live/sn4gfo6...

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i am being attacked

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oh wow wow wow. Wow. It's officially out, after many years: "Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning" authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv... Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.

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📄 NEW PRE-PRINT! 📄 How do we acquire beliefs? According to one intuitive view, we can entertain thoughts, and then choose to accept them as beliefs or reject them. philpapers.org/rec/PIOBWW (🧵1/10)

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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

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For the "they don't play defense" crowd. NBA defense is more complicated than you probably notice in real time, and these guys oftentimes nail every single decision. Great job here by the Hawks forcing the 24 second violation.

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so psyched about these new results: unresolved polysemous representations compose into logically structured thoughts and are used in domain-general reasoning. in other words, polysemy extends outside language into conceptual thought. griffin pion & elliot schwartz (first authors) did a killer job

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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SSPP vibes

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found this open on my laptop. no idea what it was going to be but i bet it would've been cool

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the most disastrous team in the eastern conference is using LLMs

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Happy International Women’s Day from Rosa Luxemburg and me ✊❤️!

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🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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First post and first paper of the year! We show that semantic memory space becomes denser with age. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... .

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nobody gets it like david marr

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why are developmental psychologists so much smarter than everyone else in cognitive science? has anybody investigated this?

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you're not technically a scholar until google scholar makes you pass a captcha because of how many searches you're doing

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