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The traditional view of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) is that it is a "declarative memory system": necessary for long-term episodic memory but not other domains of cognition. Is that really true? A thread of how there is no such thing as a dedicated "episodic memory system"

Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with Tom Griffith's lab at Princeton. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253

The Moralization of Mechanical Objectivity Few quotes from Daston & Galison’s (1992) paper: “The image of objectivity” www.jstor.org/stable/2928741 🧵

I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...#CognitivePsychology#Motivation#Effort#Foraging#DecisionMaking 🧵

new paper on @PsyArXiv: “Shape Guides Visual Pretense” (By Peng Qian & me) psyarxiv.com/zv8nb

Where’s the academic outrage?

AAforcolumb.usJan 20, 2024 7:46pm

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Israel kills dozens of academics, destroys every university in the Gaza Strip

Israel kills dozens of academics, destroys every university in the Gaza Strip

New paper published today in Psych Science (@PsychScience)! tl;dr – evidence for an explicit working memory system for motor actions, with two dissociable "codes": one tied to the acting limb, and one more abstract (though not likely equatable to spatial WM). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is canceling culture. In Florida, and as part of an effort to prevent students from ever thinking about diversity, equity, or inclusion, public colleges and universities can no longer count "Principles of Sociology" as a gen-ed class. www.thedailybeast.com/florida-bans...

Florida Bans DEI and Sociology Class From State Colleges

The state’s Board of Education said replacing the class will spare students from being exposed to “radical woke ideologies.”

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