BWLAB is at VSS Meeting with tons of interesting new science!

Freud sometimes gets credit for introducing the concept of unconscious mental processes into psychology, but why not Helmholtz? He got there first and arguably his conception stood the test of time better than Freud's did (though less flashy and less popular impact)

This morning - come check out Hong’s ‘attentional transplants’ project in the Banyan Breezeway! #vss2024

Are you at #VSS2024? Stop by the Pavilion to check out my poster on our novel method to ensure accurate fixation in online fixation-dependent tasks!

Standing room only at #phiVis! So encouraging to see this much interest in the intersection between philosophy and vision science. #VSS2024 VSS Meeting

New paper with Sarah Hye-yeon Lee, Brynn Sherman, and Anna Papafragou, in which we explore how people's mental timelines are shaped by event structure -- using popular TV shows to examine shared memories across months and even *years*! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Calling all early career cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists! OPAM's abstract submission form is NOW OPEN & can be found at opam.net! Submission window closes July 15th! Additional info can be found on our website Oh & Remember, OPAM is free to attend!

This week's paper presents evidence that wild African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls. Using machine learning, the researchers showed that the receiver of a call could be predicted from the call's acoustic structure, regardless of the

Now out in Open Mind! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

Moths are attracted to lights because of the same mathematics that underlies twistor theory and compactification in theoretical physics: projective geometry. It all starts from a simple observation: translations are just rotations whose center is located "at infinity". (1/11)

Today's the day! The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) 2024 commences today, held at the Old Aberdeen University Campus. It is a satellite conference to the European Conference on Visual Perception #ECVP2024 abdn.io/S3

Come join us!!

My final (& favorite!) 1st-author paper from my Psychology PhD came out the 1st week of my Philosophy PhD 🥹 Alison Gopnik, Eunice Yiu, & I show that 2- and 3-year-olds rapidly learn & apply abstract relations ('bigger', 'smaller') in a causal problem-solving task!

I am looking forward to speaking at the University of Glasgow's 'Illusion of the Fortnight' talk series tomorrow! I'll present work from my lab on the perception of causality, as well as a new method for distinguishing 'illusions' from 'anti-illusions': nssrperception.com/docs/van%20Bur…

Congrats, Santiago!

I am excited to announce that my latest project with Wilma Bainbridge is now out as a preprint! We were able to engineer the memorability of symbols by designing some to be highly memorable and others to be highly forgettable. Read it here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

I am seeking applicants for a fully-funded PhD student position in my lab. The student will join the Cognition track in the Psychology PhD program at UNH. Please spread the word if you know someone who might be interested. (RTs appreciated)

The deadline for the Visual Science of Art Conference has been extended to Thursday: bsky.app/profile/bvb373…