Feeling very personally attacked by this one.

The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25)

We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics!

If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️

I’m a cognitive psychologist. Don’t tell me this isn’t a stroopwafel.

Congratulations!

Absolutely. My main problemzc is that my home office is now in the living room where the baby naps, and I can't really use it when he's asleep...

quote from SURFiN Alum Michael House: "SURFiN provided me enough room to explore the wide world of neuroscience and get a taste of so much of it. It gave me a chance to see the many places I could fit."

Our Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program is an exceptional opportunity for undergrad students looking for their first hands-on #neuroscience research job. Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/3RprAH0

The OECS is invaluable every time I prepare a class. It's clear enough for undergraduates to understand, and comprehensive enough that I can use it for most big-picture ideas in the field. I really appreciate all the work that went into it!

That is super neat. Where do you get the comparison against previous years? I found the turnout tracking on the site you linked, but not the comparison.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Sorry to miss #cds2026, but two of my students made the trip from Vienna! Be sure to ask Beyza (P3-6) and Leslie (P3-39) about how babies and dogs 🐕 understand causal events! (I'm also on a project with @ebonawitz.bsky.social and her student Michelle on counterfactuals at P3-47)

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie.

It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D)

charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st.

Please share, thank you 🙏

I think of this one every time I put sheets in the dryer

Congrats on getting the one that pays at least!

Is mental imagery a single process?

Our meta-analysis of 46 fMRI studies suggests not.

We find a key divide between object imagery (visualizing an object in rich detail) and spatial imagery (mentally transforming objects).

This split mirrors the ventral and dorsal streams of vision

It sounds like a straightforward demonstration, but pinning it down took four careful experiments. It's a great demonstration of the linguistic permeability of this representational momentum effect, and raises interesting questions about the format of event representations.

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We show that the magnitude of the effect can be influenced by verb aspect: If you see "the ice has melted", you remember it being further along than if you see "the ice is melting".

This shows that different event representations (linguistic and cognitive) interact with each other in memory.

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The short version: When you watch a state-change event, like ice melting, that cuts off at some point in the middle, you will falsely remember it being more melted than it was. This is called "state-change representational momentum", first found by Alon Hafri and colleagues.

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This paper is a perfect example of the collaborative and student-driven nature of our department at @weareceu.bsky.social . The driving force behind it was the first author, Icey, who pulled on the expertise of her primary advisor (Eva), a post-doc (Natalia), and me to go after her question.

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Remembering times ahead: The effect of linguistic framing on representational momentum in state-change events When people remember scenes, they can draw from different sources to reconstruct their memory, such as what they saw, and linguistic descriptions of w…

New paper in Memory and Language in collaboration with the Language Comprehension Lab (lcl.ceu.edu)

"Remembering times ahead: The effect of linguistic framing on representational momentum in state-change events"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

(I'm 3rd author, but the only one on bsky)
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For rewatch podcasts and things commenting on other video media I like it for the ability to do illustrative reference. But yes, requires the ability to look at them at least intermittently

On one hand I'm very sad that this was necessary. On the other, I might get to go see the igNobel prize ceremony live again, which is frankly something I thought I wouldn't have the chance to do again.

Shockingly it does still exist. The last released version was in 2021. Do the people maintaining that submission system know or care? Who can say.

I look for little spots of amusement on grim days, and this is pretty damn amusing. It doesn't actually use real money, it's more of a form of protest art, which is even better.

My grocery store had Kosher salt on an end cap that I think might have been a Jewish food collection for Passover? (Who knows cause it also had honey (Rosh Hashanah) and chocolate syrup (I have no idea)) and anyway I stopped and gave it the traditional Jewish holiday “at least you tried” nod.

@niallw.bsky.social pointed out an error in a preprint of ours that contained a fabricated citation. The cause: we used Claude to fix an arxiv upload / compile error. It decided the best way to do that was to remove an actual citation and replace it with a fabricated one.

bsky.app/profile/ben....

Regolin (Last author) was I think Vallortigara's student, or at least they've certainly worked together before.

‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research

I beat the rush, as it were, by moving in 2022, but the headline quote pretty much captures my feelings on the subject. Austria has done a good job of making me feel welcome, and my science has flourished here. It was a good move on a variety of levels.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A screenshot of a Microsoft Word "word count" pane showing the following statistics: Pages: 5, Words: 1001, Characters (no spaces): 5428, Characters (with spaces): 6423, Paragraphs: 8, Lines: 75

Commentary with 1000-word limit.

Two hours of editing down.

This will be funny in retrospect.