The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is now live! oecs.mit.edu OECS an online, open resource about the nature of minds—what they are, how they grow, how they interact, and how they differ from one another. At #CogSci2024? Come along to Penn II, 12.15 The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

Looking forward to today's morality session at #CogSci2024!

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13 years ago, I presented my first paper ever at #CogSci. This year I had the honor of serving as a Program Chair. Cognitive science is changing thanks to LLMs. Where will CogSci be in 13 more years? Maybe an undergrad in the audience last week will run it. Or maybe ChairGPT.

Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and it’s undervalued at every level.

🧵Do you teach introductory statistics? And are your students tired of paying for a textbook? I'm proud to announce the latest version of a free textbook I've compiled. Available as pdf and a website (mobile friendly, with dark mode). minusthemath.com

From an evolutionary perspective, what distinguishes the human brain? You may say, the neocortex. Surprisingly, in humans and other great apes, the expansion of the cerebellum accelerated faster than the enlargement of the cerebral cortex. cell.com/current-biolog…

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

Why do more numerate people tend to make better decisions under risk? My ✨ new paper in Scientific Reports ✨ offers an explanation in terms of pre-decisional information search and processing, using computational modeling. nature.com/articles/s4159… 👇 Thread below 1/8

"Confidence-weighted integration of human and machine judgments for superior decision-making" w Felipe Yáñez Xiaoliang (Ken) Luo Can humans, when performing worse than LLMs, add value to teams? Yes, bc humans and LLMs make different errors. Simple, fast, easy method arxiv.org/abs/2408.08083

In prior work, we argued that LLMs recite causal knowledge embedded in the data. At #AIME2024, we now show how to combine this with structure learning and dedicated new data to induce medical models! Causal Parrots 👉 openreview.net/forum?id=tv46t… AIME 👉 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Heading to Berlin to join the panel discussion at the upcoming workshop on LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language.  Looking forward to hearing engaging talks! Big thanks to the organizers for the invitation. Anna Strasser DenkWerkstatt Berlin denkwerkstatt.berlin/LLMs-in-Berlin/

👇Check out this paper (first in a series), on the cognitive science of moral narratives!

The Dimensions of dimensionality Review by Brett D. Roads (Brett David Roads) & Bradley C. Love (Bradley Love) tinyurl.com/5n8t626c

Just hosted our very first "lab alumni meeting", a space for past lab members who are now PIs to share wins & dilemmas & exchange advice on managing a lab and navigating the tenure track! Super recommend ❤️❤️❤️ 1/

I'll be recruiting a graduate student and a postdoc to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info & please share 😊 crockettlab.org/joining-the-lab

Great talks on LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use.

Can’t recommend more.

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