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I miss this old Psychological Science journal format... it takes me right back to my undergrad days, reading those papers and dreaming about doing a PhD someday.

Congrats!

Art nurtures creativity and innovation, plays an important role in sharing knowledge, and encourages curiosity and dialogue. Today, on #WorldArtDay, we take a look at inspiring research in the arts.

Alex Martin talking about his science career

Alex Martin talked about his "eclectic" career spanning over 4 decades, including 31 years in the Laboratory of Cognition (NIH), with some reflections on what makes a successful scientific career: "the right place at the right time", "it's good to be first", "controversy is helpful"

What can babies teach us about making more climate-friendly models? His coworkers are mostly one-year-olds. Together, along with the lab, they have ideas to make AI more climate-friendly.

Should AI have a childhood?

Had a great conversation with Chris over at Rewild Magazine on how developmental principles can help address a range of challenges with current AI models

fenwick.media/rewild/magaz...

Interesting article. I've definitely felt this recently. It's great having multiple paths to go down career-wise, but eventually you have to choose/prioritize. I'm not sure I've got to that point yet, but it feels like it's getting closer.

Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Appeals to representation are widespread, despite neuroscientists’ uncertainty about what kind of findings count as evidence for such claims. In this Perspective, Pohl and colleagues develop a unified...

Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience — a Perspective by Stephan Pohl, Edgar Y. Walker, David L. Barack, Jennifer Lee, Rachel N. Denison, Ned Block, Florent Meyniel & Wei Ji Ma

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have fond memories of Addenbrooke’s A&E. Seven years ago, I fainted at the reception there, and the staff took good care of me.

Oh no... does it mean that international applicants are precluded if they don't have an Australian citizenship or permanent resident permit?

Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT.

Fantastic interactive explanation of #Transformers right here, including tokenization, what embeddings are, how self-attention works... Perfect for teaching or brushing up on your own understanding! poloclub.github.io/transformer-...

From maybe the best teacher I know: Idan Blank explains transformers in a super intuitive and fun way!

Totally agree.... i even feel Matlab is the most beautiful programming language, although i know Python people may beg to differ....

We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1).
If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!

the human hippocampus receives convergent input from multiple sensory systems, yet we lack a basic understanding of how this structure integrates across senses.

we tackle this problem in our new preprint!

paper: doi.org/10.64898/202...

w/ Aryan Agarwal, @yannanzhu.bsky.social, & Nick Turk-Browne

Love Connor sooo much 😍

Our bilingualism paper is now published in PNAS. We used fMRI to compare semantic brain representations in English-Chinese bilinguals. Semantic representations are largely shared across languages, but finer-grained differences modulate how meaning is represented.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Many congrats!

Added to my reading list... 😀

The AG is def involved in abstract semantics, and our data support this idea! But there's a catch - the ingredients of lexically mediate abstract meaning are likely stored elsewhere (possibly the STG) but the AG plays a crucial role in mediating online integration of conceptual pieces into a gestalt

Very grateful to have the opportunity to work with Beth Jefferies (not on Bluesky) and Francesca Branzi @fbranzi84.bsky.social on this project. 😃

Any question on this work? Please let me know... 🌞

We found angular gyrus function can be best understood through a continuum from perception-guided to memory-guided cognition. As processing gradually becomes more perceptually decoupled and reliant on memory, the contribution of angualr gyrus increases! - more details in our paper (part 3 of 3) 😀

In this multimethod investigation, we integrated evidence from neurostimulation, neuroimaging, and experiential sampling to resolve this tension and provide more clarity regarding when and how the angular gyrus contributes to the semantic processing of concrete and abstract concepts! (part 2 of 3)

Our new preprint is now on bioRxiv: doi.org/10.64898/202...

There’s been a long-standing conflict about the role of angular gyrus in semantic processing: Why is it more active for concrete than abstract semantics? Does it play any role in abstract concepts despite its less activation?(part 1 of 3)

in fact the first version of figure looks cuter...

A mesoscale optogenetics system for precise and robust stimulation of the primate cortex Li et al. present a microLED-based mesoscale optogenetic system for centimeter-scale, million-pixel primate cortical stimulation. Optogenetically evoked saccades with accurate retinotopic organization...

Optogenetics so powerful it can relocate the primary visual cortex! www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Official Statement From Valeria Chomsky Regarding Jeffrey Epstein As many are aware, my husband, Noam Chomsky, now 97, is confronting significant  health challenges after suffering a devastating stroke in June 2023.

Noam Chomsky’s wife responds to the Epstein friendship. I’m a little disappointed the basic answer is just “we didn’t do our research”. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Sadly I don't speak Italian... but should I say congratulations?! 😁

Hats off to the great Anne "I don't do fancy" Treisman!

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich