Chaz Firestone
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think @ Johns Hopkins University. 🇨🇦 Lab: https://perception.jhu.edu/
WOW, just one week from new paper to new feature! Thanks @jspsych.org team 🙏🤩
jsPsych@jspsych.org · last wk.Response duration tracking is now an option in jsPsych 8.3.0. Decide whether to trigger responses on key press (current default) or wait for key release to get both initial response time and response duration. We handle edge cases like multiple keys being pressed and tabbing away from the browser.
out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · last mo.You press ‘send’ on a high-stakes email but hesitate when lifting your finger. You make a chess move but linger on the piece before letting go. Familiar? In @pnas.org, Hanbei Zhou @ruizhegoh.bsky.social @ianbphillips.bsky.social & I show that response *duration* tracks confidence! shorturl.at/A9NVe
met up with this guy (we’re neighbors) for champagne! congrats @noamchompers.bsky.social
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 3w agowell, i suppose i can now share a spot of good news. i've accepted a permanent position at australian catholic university. i'll be moving to sydney in january. i'm just delighted
well, i suppose i can now share a spot of good news. i've accepted a permanent position at australian catholic university. i'll be moving to sydney in january. i'm just delighted
When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!
Children as agents of cultural adaptation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Children as agents of cultural adaptation - Volume 49
cambridge.org
Noam and Noam-in-training watching the tall Lord of the Rings guy score goals
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · last mo.God haaland is such a stud
just when you think you’ve made it, you book a train ticket that allows for academic titles and realize you can always have more doctorates
You press ‘send’ on a high-stakes email but hesitate when lifting your finger. You make a chess move but linger on the piece before letting go. Familiar? In @pnas.org, Hanbei Zhou @ruizhegoh.bsky.social @ianbphillips.bsky.social & I show that response *duration* tracks confidence! shorturl.at/A9NVe
here’s a list of countries that have played one or more knockout games but have never conceded a goal in any of them: canada
Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · last mo.only nation in world cup history that has won 100% of its knockout games
only nation in world cup history that has won 100% of its knockout games
Dorsa Amir@dorsaamir.bsky.social · last mo.Fun sports fact: Canada’s won more Round of 32 games than all other countries combined 🇨🇦
nobody will remember: - papers you published - grant dollars you raised - citations you received people will remember - conference parties you hosted @socphilpsych.bsky.social #SPP2026
@talboger.bsky.social’s poster-coaster experience lands in Baltimore this afternoon! Come see him present his work at the @socphilpsych.bsky.social at this evening’s poster session, then grab a coaster as a souvenir. Available while supplies last!
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoCome find me at SPP (at my poster on June 18) to hear more, or even just to grab a coaster! Demo page here: www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams_ani...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…another creative & impactful project from the rocket-fueled @talboger.bsky.social, applying the wickedly cool “visual anagrams” method to animacy! Read the paper in @elife.bsky.social today, then attend his presentation at @socphilpsych.bsky.social later this week. 🦆✈️
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Do we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Some findings from our national survey of U.S. population attitudes toward AI. First, feelings about AI are actually very similar across political parties (and many other demographics). They vary most by people's experience with AI tools. Explore the data: futurerealities.org/poll/2026/ 🧵
i like wemby vs chet because it looks like waluigi had his own waluigi in mario party
I always admire when folks publish their papers accompanied by a supplementary-style page on their website - such a high-value and potentially more accessible #openscience way to directly communicate research (plus I imagine it improves peer-review, is there data on that somewhere?)
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoComplexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
"for example, participants who find simple shapes aesthetically pleasing also find simple melodies pleasing" the science is clear: you are not not qualified for a SRE team if you don't enjoy hyperpop, breakcore, djent, etc.
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoComplexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Excited to have been wrong about this! A few years ago, Tal told me he was working on intuitions about complexity. I knee-jerkily said, “but surely that’s not a natural kind! Why think that people have intuitions about complexity across domains?” Good thing this is the last time I’ll ever be wrong!
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoComplexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Super excited about this paper by the amazing @talboger.bsky.social, now in press @ @nathumbehav.nature.com! Before you ask: No, it has no corresponding lab merch (cf www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...). But yes, it has deep questions, creative experiments, and foundational implications!
tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo agoComplexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Complexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
