Interestingly several people have asked me about this paper on neural coding. As soon as the preprint was posted, a student asked me about it. I think it's a thoughtful and clearly written paper, though most of the ideas presented are obvious to me. It was fascinating to read the BBS responses, as many of the people who wrote commentaries didn't seem to understand it. I recently had a chance to chat with Romain about this impression, and he completely agreed with me. He too was surprised that so many people didn't understand the paper. Just shows how much brainwashing there is in neuroscience. https://t.co/seygxzOhtK
What if the brain has more representational capacity than it needs
Call for commentary proposals on "Excess Capacity Learning" by @dubova_marina & @sabinasloman!
Propose your comment here: https://t.co/rsOL6UAtmt
Preprint: https://t.co/hxfOux6UbD
Ever thought we acquire generalizable knowledge by discarding details and compressing our experiences?
In a new BBS paper, Sabina Sloman and I argue otherwise, proposing a way of studying human learning inspired by double descent in ML.
Disagree? Commentaries due May 15 :)
Why is it so hard to lie with your whole body?
Call for commentary proposals on Multimodality as a safeguard of honesty in communication and language: from Animals to Humans by @HexSeverine, Erin Isbilen, @MH_Christiansen & Daniel Rubenstein!
Learn more: https://t.co/AyZfEG0BYD
In poverty, do people take risk? Some theories contend that they avoid risk out of caution. Others that they take risks (e.g. crime) out of desperation
In our new paper in BBS, we show that they are the two sides of the same coin: the desperation threshold
https://t.co/dfqiU2hXtm
Just out! 👇 Check my commentary to Robin Dunbar's great target paper in BBS
✅ Dunbar's paper 👉
https://t.co/ejSGE76NPl
✅My commentary 👉
https://t.co/dsoFqs4pQQ
📣New BBS Article!📣
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified"
https://t.co/mAk5RlViLC
Call for commentary proposals on “Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity” by @NickJChater & @MH_Christiansen!
How do local tweaks to social rules scale?
Propose your comment here: https://t.co/7DnKP4lIlx
Preprint: https://t.co/W2mbpkqJqF
"The human brain makes up just 2% of body mass but consumes closer to 20% of the body’s energy."
Press release about this new target article by Philipp Haueis and David J. Colaço: https://t.co/ZdFzInhuyQ
And submit your proposal to comment here: https://t.co/ZFPorCiyYM
Our @BBSJournal target article has been accepted: "Core Perception": Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With @AlonHafri , Véronique Izard, @chazfirestone & @stricklandbrent
Read it here: https://t.co/tUjkPHax4c
A short thread [1/5]👇
The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline Oct 15): https://t.co/aHsfUOUW8V. In the paper (https://t.co/9wn1XUgk6L), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues for studies on unconscious processing
I've called this process "subjective selection" and argue that it underlies much of cultural evolution, including the predictable development of these complex near-universals.
Download: https://t.co/owaSzA2f7N
Call for commentaries: https://t.co/JtmECD50Os
Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?
In a @BBSJournal target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + the evolution of culture more broadly. Online & open for commentary
"we present scientific arguments, w/ evidence, that developmental psych theories, & in consequence developmental research, need to be updated, considering the diversity that exists in the human species but is ignored w/in current theories of human nature" https://t.co/nYWMOnDVbk
"we present scientific arguments, w/ evidence, that developmental psych theories, & in consequence developmental research, need to be updated, considering the diversity that exists in the human species but is ignored w/in current theories of human nature" https://t.co/nYWMOnDVbk
🚨New in @BBSJournal:
"Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮💨? https://t.co/ZwBTScG60Q 🧵