#PhDposition in Creativity, Translation and Technology (3.0 FTE) (V23.0606) #AI #UniversityOfGroningen

Qualifications:
- a Research Master’s or Master’s degree in any area related to the project (e.g. #TranslationStudies, #DigitalHumanities, #Linguistics, #LiteraryStudies, #InformationScience, #ComputerScience, #CognitiveScience #CognitivePsychology
- ...

You may apply for this position until 22nd October 11:59pm CET

For more info:
- https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000ACQP&cat=wp
- https://www.rug.nl/staff/a.guerberof.arenas/

The Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC @cognition_ens) at Ecole Normale Supérieure (@ecolenormalesup) is
inviting applications for a fully-funded extended 3-year Masters program
in #CognitiveScience, which offers interdisciplinary training in
#Linguistics, #Philosophy, #Cognitive Social Science, #Psychology,
#Neuroscience, #Modeling and #CognitiveEngineering
(https://cognition.ens.fr/en). Students can then pursue a fully-funded
#PhD at ENS or elsewhere in France, conditioned on a mid-term evaluation.

Deadline for applications:
December 11, 2023 (23h59, Central European Time)

More information on the website:
https://www.ens.fr/en/academics/admissions/international-selection
@cognition

@bwaber yes I really enjoyed this one #cognitivescience #psychology

Cambridge-Boston Psych &CogSci folks:

I'll be attending Harvard's Cognition, Brain & Behavior seminar this week (Thursday) - if you're anywhere around Harvard Square and want to chat, let me know!

This week: "Compositionality and Cumulative Culture

Charley Wu
PI, Human and Machine Cognition Lab
University of Tübingen, Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning"

#harvard #psychology #cognitivescience #behavior #harvardsquare #cambridge #boston #seminar #thisweek #opentalks

Next was a fabulous discussion with Josh Tenenbaum on #AI, #CognitiveScience, and so much more at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Tenenbaum is always a must watch, and this is no exception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTbPgkt9oMA (4/9)

Yes, I have started making #cognitivescience #philosophy memes, including this one for #phenomenology, after much encouragement from others.

#chemero #philosophyofscience #psychology #memes #philosophyofmind #neuroscience

🧠 I released v0.12 of my gactar tool for creating & running basic ACT-R models on multiple implementations using a single declarative file format.

ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought — Rational) is both a theory of cognition and an implementation of that theory in software.

This release fixes issues, adds some capabilities to the language, & adds some new command-line tools.

https://github.com/asmaloney/gactar/releases/tag/v0.12.0

#CogSci #CognitiveScience #CognitiveArchitecture #CognitiveModelling #ACTR #OpenSource #GoLang

#Saturday #book #treasurehunting continues. Big scores at @harvardbooks once again. Someone dropped off a lot of good #philosophyofscience texts. #karlpopper in particular looks great for some of my projects.

#bookworm #usedbooks #usedbookstore #independentbookstore #localbookstore #nowreading #philosophy #historyofscience #ai #history #booklover #nowreading #reading #cognitivescience #psychology #august #cambridge #boston #bostonbooks #cambridgebooks #harvardsquare #harvard

Replication and Refinement of Brain Age Model for adolescent development https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.16.553472v1
@vcalhoun

#brain #neuroscience #evodevo #braindevelopment #brainorganoids #development #psychology #cognitivescience

“Research reveals symbols are more memorable than words. This novel study dives into our brain’s knack for recalling graphic symbols and logos over their word counterparts. Symbols, offering visual anchors for abstract ideas, outperform words in memory tests. This understanding could revolutionize visual communication and design.”
#cognitivescience #psychology #communication
https://neurosciencenews.com/world-symbol-preference-23808/

"a deeply engaging book ... a masterclass in Philosophy of Mind" — Karl Friston on "The Consciousness Revolutions: From Amoeba Awareness to Human Emancipation"
#consciousness #philosophy #cognitivescience
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24012-6

Interesting new model of cognitive evolution: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.0671

Discussed by one of the authors on this podcast: https://manyminds.libsyn.com/the-five-portals-of-cognitive-evolution

#evolution #cognition #CogSci #CognitiveScience #science #neuroscience #podcast #biology

I hope more #researchers and #academics will join the exodus to #Mastodon. Sigmoid.social in particular is an instance for folks interested in #AI, #MachineLearning, #Neuroscience, #CognitiveScience or any other relevant disciplines to congregate and mingle.

#DitchX https://aus.social/@thesiswhisperer/110878776001647572

Here's a really interesting (long) paper on what a theory of computing based on arbitrary physical substrates might look like: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15408

#NewPaper #TheoreticalComputerScience #neuromorphic #CogSci #CognitiveScience #VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing #AnalogComputing

And that's that for Horton (2020)!

Okay. Lots to think about in there. Some examples of frustrating postmodern wordiness, but enough insight and more clearly worked through ideas about scale to be well worth the read.

There has been at least one other major publication on scale in the past few years (DiCaglio) to figure out. But finding a way to think clearly on #scale is *vital* for #CognitiveScience, which is, to be honest, a mess on this front.

Sometimes I feel that focusing on anything but climate change and the environment makes me effectively into the "this is fine" dog. Thinking about thinking can definitely help though, because it relates to how we can change and adapt.

Does anybody have any ideas on how #Neuroscience, #Psychology, and #cognitiveScience can relate to studying #climateChange ?

Belief change dynamics are really central imo, as is reinforcement learning. Using fossil fuels is really immediately rewarding (especially if you're like, an oil baron) and the abstract future reward of "going green" is often too distant for people. There's also community and cultural information flows, and other learning dynamics like imprinting and observational learning+mimicry.

Any other ideas?

I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, #CognitiveScience and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honestly, I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172 @alatitude77 #bookstodon #GödelEscherBach

I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, #CognitiveScience and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honestly, I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172 #bookstodon #GödelEscherBach

"Two sages were standing on a bridge over a stream. One said to the other, 'I wish I were a fish. They are so happy.' The other replied, 'How do you know whether fish are happy or not? You're not a fish.' The first said, 'But you're not me, so how do you know whether or not I know how fish feel?'
Adam Hindman, Lessons from the Temple
#CognitiveScience #Tao

The Future of Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise: MIT 15.481, May 16, 2023

Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab), Daniela Rus (MIT CSAIL), and Josh Tenenbaum (MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences)

#AI #tech #computerScience #cognitiveScience #MIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNYuuXU0K40