Hrag Pailian, Ph.D.

Senior UX Researcher @ Indeed. Cognitive scientist, Johns Hopkins, Ph.D., Harvard Post-Doc. Opinions expressed are my own. He/him.

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

It’s finally out! Check out our new paper in #PNAS re: the use of hierarchically structured priors in visual motion perception (MOT + future trajectory prediction) @BillScientific @gershbrain @jdrugowitsch

[Johannes Bill @BillScientific]

I am excited to share our new paper with @Hrag_P, @gershbrain and @jdrugowitsch studying the use of hierarchically structured priors in human visual motion perception: https://t.co/RpoUFHrXMT 1/

[Marco Giancotti @marco_giancotti]

I have aphantasia, meaning that I can't form mental images at will. Nor, in my case, sounds, smells, flavors, tactile sensations, or emotions.

When I close my eyes, I enter a blank world.

In this thread I'll try to express what that is like for those who don't have aphantasia.

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@MGreenePhD This is so cool

[Bradley Love @ProfData]

Introducing https://t.co/zBDFUc48A0, a large language model (LLM) to assist neuroscience research. BrainGPT is trained on the vast neuroscience literature and can be used to optimize study design, detect anomalous results, and evaluate models against broad data patterns. (1/3)

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@brialong @UCSDPsychology Ahh, congrats, Bria!!! Also and no idea you had another baby! Congrats on all fronts!

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@AlonZivony @bradpwyble Just making sure you’re also doing a spearman brown correction for your split half

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@chazfirestone ❤️❤️

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@AlonZivony Like the type of comment you want to see (increase engagement, in general)

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@b_jorges When Toronto creates proper bike lanes

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@zreagh @CharanRanganath @NatureComms Fantastic

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@SMEmrich Definitely not at your job. And you’re funny as heck.

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@_jasonwei @AziziShekoofeh @talia_konkle I feel like you’d be into this!

[Steven Ge @StevenXGe]

Happy holidays! Introducing https://t.co/Ub3wgs1KVz, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPT’s sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@SMEmrich I’m assuming the word “unintentionally” is implied.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.

The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.

Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@joodykeem Holy cow you are so talented!

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@b_jorges I feel you. This fall weather is killing me

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@RuthRosenholtz This is such cool news! What are you gonna be doing over there? Hope you document and share the experience via Twitter!

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@ToddHorowitz3 How ENFJ of you to say that 🙄😜

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@b_jorges Is this a euphemism for men?

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@ceptional @RuthRosenholtz @WikiJSci Say that the parrot has some knowledge of color labels and could have been using verbal rehearsal techniques (whereas the students were given a verbal load while doing the task)

[Hrag Pailian, Ph.D. @Hrag_P]

@ceptional @RuthRosenholtz @WikiJSci It could even be considered as catastrophic failure (near chance level performance). I personally think whatever the differences exist between the parrot and students has something to do with durability of representations/proactive interference. I know Irene would go as far to…