Emily J. Ward

Cognitive neuroscientist studying visual awareness and visual cognition. Assistant Professor @UWMadison @UWPsych Psychology Department

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@glupyan I remember being at a gay bar in New Haven drinking Sex on the Beach and @itschekkers was making fun of me and @thomaspocon for being huge vision science nerds about it.

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@ElenaRunsNYC This is amazing

[Paul Middlebrooks @pgmid]

"I should ask Gary why I feel dumb thinking in words. Agh! I'm thinking in words again!"

@glupyan discusses inner speech, how your phenomenal experience is different from mine, language vs. cognition, concepts, symbols, language models, cool shirts...

https://t.co/5PC72GkNHU

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@russpoldrack David Lynch?

[Gary Lupyan @glupyan]

Language researchers! Philosophers! Machine learning folks! LLM enthusiasts! I've got a ~10 min survey about word meanings in humans and machines. Will share results! R/T plz! https://t.co/cH2y6nSSzx

[Gary Lupyan @glupyan]

Would (good old fashioned) telepathy work? Something I've wanted to write for a long time is finally out in Aeon (a treat as always to collaborate w/ Andy Clark)

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@timmytimmytim LinkedIn sends me these really encouraging emails about my career path. Soon, maybe I will have a path to actual Chair (interim).

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@PaulaNiedenthal Get those two undergrads out of the faculty section! You guys don’t look a day over 21!

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@timmytimmytim Midjourney takes it to the next level, artistically

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

People overestimate what they notice in scenes and feel insusceptible to failures of awareness. Despite this overconfidence, in a new paper w/ @a_a_d_d_a_a_m_m (now in @ScannLab), we show that people *can* predict their own (and others) change blindness https://t.co/z8WEhRGeqU

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@epstein_lab Can I come back?

[hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social @hakwanlau]

the updated schudule is:

Grand Ballroom B/C (Sunday 24th morning)

Ned Block, Chair, 10-10:05 Introduction

Emily Ward, 10:5-10:25 Talk 1: Failures of Awareness in a Rich Visual World

Michelle Craske 10:25-10:45 Talk 2: Threat Imminence Drives a Coherent Fear Response

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[hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social @hakwanlau]

attendees of @CNSmtg: if u may come to our symposium on Sunday "Challenges for the Metacognitive Foundations of Consciousness", we have an important annoncement make re: change of times

the time is still 10-12pm, but hopping between ours & the other symposium will be tricky

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[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

@FundConsc Just to confirm: is the deadline by Nov 1 or on Nov 1?

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

New preprint out with @a_a_d_d_a_a_m_m (now a part of @ScannLab) showing that people can effectively predict their own (and others) change blindness https://t.co/eB5xwZdiCw

[PsyArXiv-bot @PsyArXivBot]

Metacognitive judgements of change detection predict change blindness

https://t.co/dRkD350cNG

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

Contribute to a Special Issue of Consciousness & Cognition: https://t.co/vn739S6Ts7. It'll include research on neural mechanisms of veridical and non-veridical conscious perception & theories of perception and consciousness (predictive coding, cognitive penetrability, overflow).

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

And we finish up #VSS2021 with an exciting new research direction for the lab: First-year PhD student @sparsive is giving a talk, "To Each Their Own: Measuring Familiarity for Face Images"
Wed 5/26, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT, Talk Room 2 https://t.co/WJnzCMj9fX

[Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97]

Super excited to be giving my first @VSSMtg talk at #VSS2021! Join me on Tuesday 5/25 in Talk Room 1 to find out if 'Visual ensemble representations emerge in Deep Neural Networks trained for object recognition.'

[Emily J. Ward @Amyunimus]

And we finish up #VSS2021 with an exciting new research direction for the lab: First-year PhD student @sparsive is giving a talk, "To Each Their Own: Measuring Familiarity for Face Images"
Wed 5/26, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT, Talk Room 2 https://t.co/WJnzCMj9fX