#Cognition

Robert Young Pelton

RYP__

Here is an earnest attempt to explain messaging and cult signaling. Similar to mobster covering their mouth and using code while talking outside card clubs.https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2021/january/trump-language-capitol-riot-mcintosh.html

Ariel Cohen-Goldberg

arielmc_g

By now you've probably seen the vitriol against "irregardless" being considered a "real word". I wanted to discuss the actual science (linguistics) behind words like this because quite frankly, it's

El Duvelle

ElDuvelle

Doing this "Mice in Maze" preprint for #JournalClub!Have you read it? What did you think? Feel free to commentI'll add further comments below, pre and post reading...https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.14.426746v11

Brenda Yang

brendawyang

Our students come to us with deep, damaging beliefs about intelligence & IQ.I *really* wanted to teach students about intelligence last fall, but I found myself unprepared. After DAYS learning,

a wayfinder

wayfinderfenix

Every perception, every "rational" thought is pre-gated thru emotion, below the threshold of conscious awareness. Far from irrelevant, or mere "chemical reaction," emotion is the very foundation of thought. "Reason&

Elizabeth Picciuto 🦃🍠🥧

epicciuto

DUNE 1984 is a paradigm case of a movie I love but which I would never call a great movie. It's fun and inventive and quotable. It's also awkward and

IAmSciComm | @Annelinda_c

iamscicomm

Humans are unique in our ability to learn from one another. But did evolution hard-wire imitation into our genes or do we learn from others how to learn from others?

Kirstin Manges

kirstin_manges

I'm excited to share my LAST #dissertation paper "Ready to go home? Assessment of Shared Mental Models of the patient & discharging team regarding readiness for hospital discharge" via @SocietyHospMed.

Jim OShaughnessy

jposhaughnessy

1/ The Thinker and the Prover--a thread “The unexamined life, said Socrates, is not worth living. That’s some serious shit. Most people wouldn’t want to examine that statement, much less

@QueensOxBiology

queensoxbiology

Introducing....the biologists here at Queen's. @AnnetteFayet is a Junior Research Fellow & #seabird ecologist. She studies the movements & annual cycles of long-lived #seabirds & why some species, e.g. #puffins

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADSpeaking of cognitive rigidity:The Democrats and all their media and Hollywood lackeys HONESTLY BELIEVE that choosing Kamal Harris makes the defeat of @realDonaldTrump inevitable.Just ask @ArcuriPolasek One of three: Two

steven t. piantadosi

spiantado

A new paper on (i) how to connect high-level cognitive theories to neuroscience / neural nets, and (ii) how learners can construct new concepts like number or logic without presupposing

Chaz Firestone

chazfirestone

The #DarkRoom discussion continues!Our initial piece (which revived the problem and reviewed some solutions) now has replies from Karl Friston, @fluffycyborg, @anilkseth, Colin Klein, @sandervdc, @drclbuckley, @BerenMillidge, & @a_tscha

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

Okay. So my paternal grandfather smoked 60 a day and died from a heart attack in his 50s. Similar story for my maternal grandmother. One grandparent out of 4 made

plugging deep godholes

SirCrunching

similar to anti-gun or anti-gym takes, anti-vidya takes invariably reveal 1. lack of first-hand experience and 2. emotional instability. you never see an anti-vidya argument from someone who has played

Morgan Coburn

Morgan_Coburn

CW: Scary Diabetes & Brain Science (sly don't read if you are diabetic and prefer blissful ignorance)So what's the deal with Type 3 Diabetes? (also so sry I said I

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