Inspired by the interesting work:
'Cross-domain semantic alignment: concrete concepts are more abstract than you think'

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Exciting news! Our paper:

'A Nurse is Blue and Elephant is Rugby:
Cross Domain Alignment in Large Language Models Reveal Human-like Patterns'

was accepted to #CogSci2024 ! 🎉

We explore how LLMs map concepts across domains, and reason about those mappings. 🧠✨

A man inserted a round of live ammunition into his urethra . 'Non-surgical removal was limited over concern for accidental discharge' pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38779690/ 🗿

Was once asked on live TV (morning chat show): 'So we know DNA is good for forensics - is it useful for anything else?'

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the Bouba-Kiki effect in naive baby chicks biorxiv.org/content/10.110… I love this title... I love this figure... I love this preprint 🐣

The human brain converts physics into history. It takes in physical stimuli and it outputs actions. Psychology is what happens in between.

Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38752984/ Lots of spicy stuff here but to me the shocking thing is that psych professors would believe or disbelieve any theory with 100% certainty... I'm not 100% certain I'm not a brain in a vat.

Neuroscientists: a p-zombie is a hypothetical person which behaves like a normal human, but has no conscious experience.

Do you think that any brain lesion or disorder could turn someone into a p-zombie? My guess is no.

'Sex dolls marketed in the USA are not realistic depictions of the US population' pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38755504/ To be fair they're 'sex dolls' not 'representative dolls'

In the latest episode of Very Bad Wizards, David Pizarro & Tamler Sommers discuss James Miller’s recent paper on the metaphysics of puns.

My favorite (meta) pun:
“Why can’t you tell puns to kleptomaniacs? Because they always take things literally.”

HT Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦

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A theory that romantic love 'evolved by co-opting mother-infant bonding' pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37915523/ Could this explain the sexualization of the words 'mommy' and 'daddy'? 🤔

'Our final recommendation is related to job precarity. At the root of many of the QRPs are the working conditions, as highlighted elsewhere by testimonies from researchers themselves and policy papers'

Do you have an inner voice? If not, you have 'anendophasia' - a lack of inner speech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… I find it really hard to imagine what that would be like. I mean, I'm hearing the words in this sentence before I type them.

Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 Name checks out

I love this study of pair bonded poison frogs biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 'Yes she's toxic, but so am I. We're a good match.'

This dude thinks baristas are slow at making coffee because vaccination 'damages the brain’s dopamine receptors' petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/annihilating… Old man yells at neurotransmitter

Outstanding anecdote. To note:
1. This wasn't the Church, it was ordered by the King as a way to counter maneuvering from the Church.
2. It was done by a trained proto-scientist, hence why it follows the scientific method.

*randemonized control trial