David Sidhu
@davidmsidhu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Carleton University 🇨🇦 | PI of the https://classilab.ca/ I study cognition, language, and multimodality (sound symbolism, iconicity, embodied cognition). Convinced that John Lennon is the bouba and Paul McCartney is the kiki.
Very excited to share this new paper, along with Pragati Parajuli and @emij.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In it we show that English words whose sounds match their level of emotional arousal are responded to faster, more accurately, and are better remembered!
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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social The corrections I requested during proofing were not made and my article is now online with the incorrect figures. Customer service has been unresponsive. Can you tell me what I should do?
I love when scientists release papers. Where were you hiding them
Can strongly recommend Richard Hamming's book The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn. A bit old, but still great insights. It is an expanded version of his famous talk You and Your Research, which is also worth watching: youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw?...
Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
Intro: I have given a talk with this title many times, and it turns out from discussions after the talk I could have just as well have called it "You and Your Engineering Career," or even "You and…
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A new conversation piece about words that look like their meanings! theconversation.com/when-words-l...
When words look like their meaning, we process them faster, new research reveals
Bubble, hoop, wiggle, bed: Some words bear an uncanny resemblance to the shape of the object or action they describe. And we tend to process them faster.
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Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Really excited to share this new paper. It's been a pet project of mine for almost three years. Words that LOOK like their meanings ("bed", "bubble", "look") are processed faster on lexical decision tasks. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Trying to convince myself to delete an analysis I love but a reviewer does not.
a man with a beard and glasses is talking to another man in a cave and saying `` let it go '' .
ALT: a man with a beard and glasses is talking to another man in a cave and saying `` let it go '' .
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Talking about managing rejection in my seminar today and I'll be sharing these quotes from the worst review I've gotten so far. What is yours?
What a fun conversation! @mcxfrank.bsky.social @kensycoop.bsky.social !
Many Minds podcast@manymindspod.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation w/ @glupyan.bsky.social & @mcxfrank.bsky.social. Questions swirl about what AI will mean for work, education, and society. But cognitive scientists can't help but also wonder: What will AI mean for our understanding of the mind? Listen: disi.org/what-can-ai-...
📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a
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A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language. n.pr/4rBdZgj
Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do
A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.
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So excited to see the Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language come out!! Here is my chapter on Experimental approaches to sound symbolism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Experimental approaches to sound symbolism
AbstractThis chapter explores the phenomenon of sound symbolism: associations between language sounds and particular perceptual and/or semantic properties.
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The pronunciation of a language is always changing. Its sounds don’t change randomly. Their articulation shifts ever so slightly. Over the centuries, though, the result can be huge. Click my video to hear and see how Proto-Germanic *staumaz became English ‘steam’ over the course of two millennia.
Iconicity by David M. Sidhu: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.515b2685
1/5 New paper led by Peggy Liaw, with @pennypexman.bsky.social and @lorreggin.bsky.social on the development of name sound symbolism! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Reviewer asking the authors to add 10 references from their lab
When you think you’ve finally gotten through the last round of reviews. Reviewer 2:
a picture of yoda with the words no there is another on the bottom
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Nothing in teaching gives me anxiety like trying to get across the Baddeley & Hitch working memory model. Any tips to make it intuitive to undergrads? especially the episodic buffer?
Is there anything more terrifying than reading “This form must be completed using Adobe Acrobat Reader”? 😱😱😱
Here is an OpenAI generated video for a 90s Lexical Decision Task toy.
The new video generator from OpenAI is pretty wild. This is what I got when I asked for an HBO show about a lab studying the Bouba/Kiki Effect.
