✨We are organising an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/tm-workshop/ Registration is open! (spaces are limited) 🧵1/n
Theoretical Modeling Workshop
🚨 new preprint! 📝 Challenges for a Computational Explanation of Flexible Linguistic Inference, by Marieke Woensdregt, Mark Blokpoel, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social@andreaeyleen.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.31234/osf...
Do we have good and bad days for cognitive performance? Our new preprint, led by Michael Aristodemou, set to find out, testing day-to-day stability of working memory (n=4150;t =1,048,576) and nonverbal reasoning performance (n=449;t=454,913) using hierarchical modeling osf.io/preprints/ps...
"electric fields...are causally relevant, and...informative." Why not? They are there. Evolution uses what's available Decoupling Measurements and Processes: On the Epiphenomenon Debate Surrounding Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials osf.io/preprints/ps...#neuroscience
Kazanina & Poeppel (2023) argue that spatial cell types in navigation areas offer the neural ingredients for a Language of Thought (LoT). In this commentary, I give four arguments against this proposal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cultural variation and universality in musical cognition across the world: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Measuring rhythm priors in 39 participant groups from 15 countries, the authors find that properties of rhythm representations are common across cultures, while variation from place to place related t...
If you are theoretically inclined neuroscientist, check out my new #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcasttheoreticalneuroscience.no . Eight episodes out at present, with Grace Lindsay, Christof Koch, Arvind Kumar, Sacha van Albada, Li Zhaoping, Henrik Linden, Carina Curto and Konrad Kording.
This figure is the take home message from our recent paper proposing a framework for thinking about navigation across species, spearheaded by @katejj.bsky.social
Job offer: two postdoc positions (up to 2 years) in philosophy of science at UNamur (Belgium). Topic: emergence and reductionism in transitions. More information at (contact me for an English version): jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2023-...jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2023-...#philsci#philsky