Bodies and their motions are complicated. Physics and contract with the world are critical. Models trained with only pixels and language are missing rich labels from which to learn this. Language labels are a really limited way to learn about human movement.

See also this excellent thread:

Public outreach is central! - We had a blast discussing mental health, neuroscience and society at the Audi Max Universität Tübingen with Niels Weidtmann, Vittorio Gallese and Andreas Heinz of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Girl with a Pearl Earring appears to be colored, though this image is a gray-scale one with color lines. (example of color assimilation; not my invention)

The antidepressant effects of exercise. 🧵1/8

an embedded heart

Go check out Pablo’s poster @ #SfN24! TMS on visual cortex has causal and retinotopic effects on visual working memory!

1/Do radiologists sound like they are speaking a different language when they talk about MRI? T1 shortening what? T2 prolongation who? Here’s a translation w/an introductory thread to MRI.

Now I've also opened up on the bright side: Andreas Thorstensson-bartels.bsky.social ..and, introduced a lab-account: @vision-cognition.bsky.social