Will Chaz Firestone study UFOs next?

Come to Yale!

🧠My lab is looking for a new full-time RA/Post-Bac🧠

All psych- & neuro-related scientific backgrounds welcome, experience with behavioral methods and/or EEG/fMRI a plus!

Contact me here if interested (and please RT!) ->
actcompthink.org/contact.html

Christina Starmans Congrats, Christina Starmans !

Chris is the best, and so is this news! Congratulations!!

New research from neuroscientist Kishore Kuchibhotla, grad student Ziyi Zhu, and team reveals that mice may think more like human babies than we realized. They're not just making mistakes—they're strategically testing hypotheses. hub.jhu.edu/2024/04/26/sur…

New work from Ziyi Zhu and Kishore Kuchibhotla, in Current Biology👇

Excited to share our new result on Current Biology: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… with Kishore Kuchibhotla. Is there such a thing as a ‘strategic’ error? Humans and other animals often make errors when learning something new, in part because learning a task with no prior knowledge is hard.

Excited to have this paper out in the world Current Biology! This work was led by the brilliant Ziyi Zhu who took the leap of faith to join the lab as the first PhD student. He epitomizes the best of science - creative, careful, diligent, and a true team player (1/6)

and moses raised his staff and said unto pharaoh, 'i knew you were trouble'

go Zekun!!

Huge congratulations to patricia janak!! So fortunate to have you as a colleague.

The agency who generates official diversity statistics for the US scientific workforce was forced to give up its pilot data, which show it's been misrepresenting its data to avoid adding LGBTQ+ questions. National Center for Science & Engineering Stats is obstructing LGBTQ+ equity in science. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Role-filler independence — the capacity to bind arbitrary entities to distinct roles — is a core aspect of linguistic processing. Does it also arise in visual perception? Alon Hafri says 'yes' in his new paper, now in press @ Open Mind 👇

A phone in a basket looks very different from a knife in a cup. Would you ever confuse them? In a new paper @ Open Mind, Chaz Firestone Mick Bonner Barbara Landau and I show that you would — with implications for the relation between language & vision. osf.io/preprints/psya…

going to give this lecture in the fall just to see what happens