And.. I'm accepting a #PhD student this year!
We research #infant #vision & social/affective communication w/ #EEG, behavior, #ML, & soon #fNIRS
Learn more: https://bayetlab.com 🧠👶🤖
Come study infant #brain & #cognition in DC! 🌸

➡️ Apply by 12/1 https://american.edu/cas/neuroscience/phd/ (GRE optional)

#FITNG2023

@fusaroli @mvugt and me are organizing a Lorentz Centre "Cognitive Modeling of Complex behaviour" hands-on workshop in January 2024. Check the call and join us (early career especially welcome): https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/cognitive-modeling-of-complex-behavior.html

@cognition @psycholinguistics @linguistics
@psychology
@cogsci

#cognition #cogsci #computationalmodeling

Running tutorials for undergrads on jsPsych this semester. Just made a course blog with screencasts that will be updated weekly this semester. Sharing in case it's useful for others.

https://www.crumplab.com/psyc2001/blog.html

#cogsci #cognition #jspsych #QuartoPub

on #cognition #cognitiveBias #change and #humility

https://bigthink.com/the-well/change-your-mind-intellectual-humility/

"We cannot escape our cognitive biases through education. In fact, the more intelligent you are and the more education you gain, the better you become at rationalizing and justifying your existing beliefs — even if they're wrong."

Living near a lead mine in childhood is linked to greater cognitive decline in old age – those exposed as children had steeper declines in memory/attention and worse language/executive function. #NICHDImpact #LeadExposure #Cognition #ChildDevelopment
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35146115

I'm looking for review papers on the general topic of memory for pictures. I've found some pre 1990s, but haven't found review papers after that...(except Madigan, 2014). Any picture #cognition folks know of some? #cogsci #psychsci #psych #cogpsy

The @ManyDogs paper on point-following is now available: https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1353

🐕 455 dogs, 20 research sites

📏 Object choice task with
(1) Ostensive condition (pointing after making eye-contact and saying dog's name)
2) Non-ostensive condition

📊 Point-following in both conditions was above chance, but there was no condition difference

📊 Dogs followed contralateral, momentary pointing at lower rates than has been previously reported

#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCognition
#Cognition
#Dogs

Can #coffee or a #nap make up for #sleepdeprivation?
Lack of #sleep harms #memory and #cognition, but easy remedies can't fix everything. While caffeine may help you stay awake and feel more alert, it won’t help you with tasks that require complex thought. And while a short nap may make you feel better on nights that you need to stay awake, it probably won’t help your performance. In short, sufficient sleep is essential to your mind and brain, and no substitute for sleep.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/can-coffee-or-a-nap-make-up-for-sleep-deprivation/

Progovac, L. (2021). Was Syntax Borrowed from Toolmaking? Biolinguistics, 15, 23–33. https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9183 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #English #Language #Cognition #Syntax #Toolmaking #Linguistics @linguistics

Progovac, L. (2021). Was Syntax Borrowed from Toolmaking? Biolinguistics, 15, 23–33. https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9183 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #English #Language #Cognition #Syntax Toolmaking #Linguistics @linguistics

My ambitious solo paper reviewing our field is now online!

"Mapping visual working memory models to a theoretical framework" published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (@psychonomic_soc): https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-023-02356-5

#psychology #science #cognition #cognitivepsychology #visionscience #visualworkingmemory

#Reality vs. #Perception – The Reality Processing 👇️🤔️🧠️

https://evolveconsciousness.org/reality-vs-perception/

#cognition #truth #data #processing #thinking #beliefs

Wired: Is It Real or Imagined? Here’s How Your Brain Tells the Difference https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-real-or-imagined-heres-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Science/PsychologyandNeuroscience #BrainsandBehavior #QuantaMagazine #Neuroscience #RealityCheck #psychology #perception #Cognition #Science #brains

Wired: Is It Real or Imagined? Here’s How Your Brain Tells the Difference https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-real-or-imagined-heres-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference/ #Science/PsychologyandNeuroscience #BrainsandBehavior #QuantaMagazine #Neuroscience #RealityCheck #psychology #perception #Cognition #Science #brains

@krishnadeltoso @philosophy @startupnews @cogsci Sounds interesting! I learnt a lot from philosophical entries like Animal Cognition and Animal Consciousness,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognition-animal/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/

Maybe AI could help us to avoid excessive anthropomorphic bias in our attempts to learn what there is? After all, it just could be creative, couldn't it,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/creativity/#CreaArtiInte

#ai #creative #philosophy #cognition #animal

We are currently working on strengthening our Informatics, digital & computational pathology chapter.
Check out our new topic on Cognition and human - computer interaction in pathology by Keefer Wu and Dr. Patricia Tsang.
https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/informaticshumancomputerinteraction.html

#informatics #digitalpathology #computationalpathology #pathology #pathologyoutlines #cognition #humancomputerinteraction

How is taking high school math related to surviving young adulthood? Research team examines aspects of education that lower the risk of early death.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33094163

#NICHDImpact #Education #Mortality #Cognition

Your reality is never what you think. Our perception of the world is shaped by our expectations, beliefs, and emotions, not by objective facts. We can change our reality by changing our mindset and we should be more open-minded and curious about other perspectives.

#Reality #Mindset #Cognition

https://medium.com/wise-well/your-reality-is-never-what-you-think-5877efcd821d

Neuroscientists successfully test theory that forgetting is actually a form of learning https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-neuroscientists-successfully-theory.html

Adaptive expression of engrams by retroactive interference https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01010-0

Highlights
• Retroactive interference causes forgetting by the competition of two memory engrams
• Forgotten engrams can be expressed or updated by reexposure to training cues
• Artificial reactivation of engram cells rescues interference-induced forgetting
• Interference is an active process that requires the activation of the suppressed engram

these findings indicate that retroactive interference modules engram expression in a manner that is both reversible and updatable. Inference may constitute a form of adaptive forgetting where, in everyday life, new perceptual and environmental inputs modulate the natural forgetting process.

#memory #engram #neuroscience #cognition

Partnered mothers who were mainly unpaid caregivers or who did other unpaid activities had lower cognitive scores in later life than full-time working mothers. Partnered mothers who mainly worked part-time had the best cognitive function in later life, slightly higher than mothers who worked full-time.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32219370

#NICHDImpact #Cognition #Mothers #LifeCourse #Work #Family