New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our new research paper is out in NHB, which we apparently coauthored with acclaimed actor Ryan Reynolds. Critics are calling it his best work since Deadpool.

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last yr.

In this article, Maier et al. show that metacognitive learning from consequences can shape moral decision-making. @maxmaier.bsky.social @vancityreynolds.bsky.social @vanessachg.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out today!

Dorsa Amir@dorsaamir.bsky.social · 2y ago

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

I built a little Shiny app that shows how often various words were used in 20 prominent philosophy journals from 1980-2019. bweatherson.shinyapps.io/t20-graphs/

How do children figure out what other people believe, especially when those beliefs are wrong? And what kinds of mental effort does it take to get that right? New paper out now:

For #CogSci2025, myself, Alice Lin, and Keith Holyoak ask: Does AI derivative artwork have an “Original Sin”? We find that they do not. Recent legal rulings have denied copyright to artworks derived from AI-generated sources.

X-Jur has arrived -

Mathieu Carpentier@mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 2y ago

I couldn't help myself.

Great read: part of the research on LLM remains poor, no doubt because of the incentives and the private nature of some of the research

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

Recent work claims that large language models display emergent abilities, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities...

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Looking forward to presenting Wikipedia research at the University of Chicago tomorrow for the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2023.

Americans overwhelmingly believe that people should inherit near 100% of their parents' assets but near 0% of their parents' debts (including when parents have both assets and debts!). Are there coherent arguments justifying these beliefs? (data with Pinar Aldan)