#SANS2024 Symposium 5: A.I. Approaches to Social & Affective Neuroscience, with moderator Chelsea Helion, discussant Jim Thompson, and speakers Ren Calabro, Grace Miao, and Mark Thornton, starting now!

My latest take. Not sure if it's hot, cold, or just right (😬) but am curious to hear others' thoughts on this issue!

I'm deeply honored to receive one of this year's CogSci Society Glushko Dissertation Prizes. While I'm still in a state of disbelief about the award, what I can say in no uncertain terms, is that developing these ideas with Rebecca Saxe has been immensely formative and rewarding.

My lab (CoCo-Neuro) at UTD is recruiting a lab manager/tech to start in the summer of 2024 (2 years preferred). If you have a strong computational background and are interested in cog neuroscience, this position is for you! Apply through the official post: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/26132

I’m Dartmouth faculty. I don’t like our new mascot.

Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.

It cannot be stressed enough that this was the Dartmouth admin's *first* course of action. President Sian Leah Beilock et al. were so eager to deploy thugs with batts on their own —completely peaceful— students and faculty that they couldn't even wait for the sun to fully set

At 12:30 p.m., Dartmouth faculty and staff staged a walkout on the Green in response to the arrest of 90 individuals last night. They are also circulating a petition calling for an emergency meeting of the General Faculty of the College. ow.ly/yP6p50Rvezg

The time between students initiating the encampment action and being arrested by New Hampshire State Troopers in riot gear was about 2 hours. Think about how primed and committed Dartmouth's admin were. They justify this in the name of protecting 'academic debate' and 'safety'.

NEW LLM Summer School. Please REPOST! Understanding LLM Understanding Summer School: June 3 - June 14, 2024 Speakers -- Abstracts -- Timetable nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

What determines the content of replay? A key challenge for current theories is that on tasks that feature unbalanced experience, rats paradoxically replay the less-experienced trajectory (e.g. Carey et al. 2019, Gillespie et al. 2021). Check out our new preprint on the topic!

New paper! With the happily twitterless Janice Chen, we examine how narrative structure is critical to the effectiveness of naturalistic stimuli and propose that the value of narratives can be understood for their use in improving credit assignment and efficient planning.

Angie Wang's illustrated essay for the New Yorker, wondering whether her child's early attempts at speech were the same as LLMs, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. Read On The New Yorker's Website: newyorker.com/humor/sketchbo…

Happy to see this work led by Zaid Zada now published in Neuron! We use LLM embeddings to capture word-by-word linguistic content transmitted from the speaker's brain to the listener's brain in real-time, face-to-face conversations: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Proud to have the entire FINN Lab at #CCN2024! Here's where you can catch us: First up, Katie O'Nell Katie O'Nell 🧠💻 has a talk in tomorrow morning's session (Thurs 9:30am) about a new way to quantify what makes conversation good (hint: think pink 🩷🎀💅)

Hippocampus is not representing locations & cognitive maps are not spatial! Anyone interested in cognitive maps, schemas, or navigation & planning should read this companion blog to our paper science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… It will change your mind! blog.dileeplearning.com/p/space-is-a-s…