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Dan Lametti

@daniellametti.com

Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Acadiau.ca. Psycholinguistics. Speech Processing. Human-AI interaction. Running. www.lamettilab.com Halifax, NS.

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Angela Andersen@angelaandersen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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Julia Strand@juliafstrand.bsky.social · 5d ago

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology

The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...

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Dan Lametti@daniellametti.com · last wk.

I just asked our printshop if they still do course packs. "Yes ... but it's been a while." I'm returning to paper readings in all my classes this year—no more PDFs posted on Moodle that no one reads.

Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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The Women In Science Archive@wisarchive.bsky.social · 3w ago

Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...

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Dan Goodman@neural-reckoning.org · 3w ago

Is the brain a computer solved in 4 posts so that we never have to talk about this again (please please please). 1. It's not the same physically as a computer - it's made of meat. Hopefully this one at least is uncontroversial.

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Somewhere along the way, we've forgotten the computer is just a metaphor for the brain. A powerful metaphor but still a metaphor. We always get into trouble when we confuse a metaphor with the thing itself – the map with the territory.” Lucid piece by @anilseth.bsky.social on LLMs & consciousness.🧪

Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu...

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Jaime Walsh@jaimewalsh.bsky.social · 4w ago

an interesting article on the public life of scientific knowledge, but i still find it remarkable that “should scientists speak up?” remains an active research question - the climate doesn’t seem interested in waiting for us to settle the debate

Dr Samuel Finnerty@samuelfinnerty.bsky.social · 4w ago

On the topic of influence, some scientists engage in climate advocacy & activism to influence action. For a review on the effects of climate advocacy and activism by scientists, we reviewed the literature on the reasons for it & its effects on perceptions of science journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · last mo.

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...

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Dan Lametti@daniellametti.com · 2mo ago

New preprint from my lab led by Acadia Master's student Lindsay Heyland. We provide evidence for a purely motor deficit in real-world L2 speech. "A Motor Basis for a Foreign Accent? Linguistic Context Constrains the Generalization of Second Language Speech Motor Plans". osf.io/preprints/ps...

Upper panel: Arrows reflect sensorimotor adaptation associated with bilingual sentence production—the average change in F1-F2 production in English (L1) and French (L2) for each participant in each phase of Experiment 1. The extent to which these changes opposed altered auditory feedback experienced in the adaptation phase is shown in the bars below. Lower panel: Bars reflect average direct adaptation, transfer of adaptation to part sentences and reversed part sentences, and after-effect magnitudes in L1 and L2. Participants showed significantly more transfer of sensorimotor adaptation from sentences to part sentences in their first language (English) compared to their second (French). In English (L1), adapted motor plans transferred completely to part sentences; in French (L2), transfer was markedly weaker, despite the presence of robust L2 aftereffects when they returned to sentence production—the speaking context associated with adaptation. The results suggest that compared to their first language counterparts, second-language speech-motor representations are more closely tied to the linguistic context in which they are learned.
Dan Lametti@daniellametti.com · 2mo ago

New preprint from my lab led by Acadia Master's student Lindsay Heyland. We provide evidence for a purely motor deficit in real-world L2 speech. "A Motor Basis for a Foreign Accent? Linguistic Context Constrains the Generalization of Second Language Speech Motor Plans". osf.io/preprints/ps...

Upper panel: Arrows reflect sensorimotor adaptation associated with bilingual sentence production—the average change in F1-F2 production in English (L1) and French (L2) for each participant in each phase of Experiment 1. The extent to which these changes opposed altered auditory feedback experienced in the adaptation phase is shown in the bars below. Lower panel: Bars reflect average direct adaptation, transfer of adaptation to part sentences and reversed part sentences, and after-effect magnitudes in L1 and L2. Participants showed significantly more transfer of sensorimotor adaptation from sentences to part sentences in their first language (English) compared to their second (French). In English (L1), adapted motor plans transferred completely to part sentences; in French (L2), transfer was markedly weaker, despite the presence of robust L2 aftereffects when they returned to sentence production—the speaking context associated with adaptation. The results suggest that compared to their first language counterparts, second-language speech-motor representations are more closely tied to the linguistic context in which they are learned.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

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