Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today 📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science 💶 They take time and money to collect ⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A multimodal transformer-based tool for automatic generation of concreteness ratings across languages - Communications Psychology

This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages.

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Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

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Most critiques of LLMs (e.g. @garymarcus.bsky.social) are ultimately about not wanting to accept that very dumb processes can lead to "intelligence". I think this paper offers a great perspective on how this could happen in both minds and machines. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Direct Fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks

Evolution is a blind fitting process by which organisms become adapted to their environment. Does the brain use similar brute-force fitting processes …

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I wish playing dead were an option when responding to reviewers.

The neurobiology of language does not operate in a vat. An important perspective from the @thelablab.bsky.social and colleagues: "Language is widely distributed throughout the brain" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Context is everything: How context influences the way the brain processes concepts.

Context is everything

How the brain processes concepts is influenced by contextual information, such as what a person is seeing, suggests new study.

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VOR of this paper is out today in @elife.bsky.social.

The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@thelablab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain @viktorkewenig.bsky.social shows that, while concepts generally encode habitual experiences, the underlying neurobiological organisation is not fixed but depends dynamically on available contextual information. 👏🍾🐐 elifesciences.org/articles/91522