New paper just out in Cognitive Psychology: "A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes" https://t.co/xEuOS2WFAZ
Thanks to Kevin Ellis, Josh Tenenbaum, @StanDehaene and the reviewers!
See thread below for an outline👇
New preprint from the lab: "A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes"
by Mathias Sablé-Meyer @MSableMeyer, with Kevin Ellis, Josh Tenenbaum and myself.
Find it here: https://t.co/nGcANSC0o3
“Where was I again?”
Our study published today https://t.co/SssPQUDv7l reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:
New ARC-AGI paper
@arcprize w/ fantastic collaborators @xu3kev@HuLillian39250@ZennaTavares@evanthebouncy@BasisOrg
For few-shot learning: better to construct a symbolic hypothesis/program, or have a neural net do it all, ala in-context learning?
https://t.co/zcmxoQzv92
Help friends and colleagues better understand how humans process language! Good Old Fashion Psycho-Linguistics (GOFPL) with a fun hypothesis, but we promise there will be LLMs in the paper eventually 🤖
Participate: https://t.co/XFk0hjQcmN
Share around to native English speakers!
1/🧵How early do children grasp mathematical patterns? Our latest study with @StanDehaene, @LubineauMarie and @MorfoisseTheo explores how young children’s drawings reveal their understanding of geometric patterns—from simple lines to complex curves like sinusoids and exponentials
@andregraubner Randomly generated stimuli with parametrized luminosity, arranged in a 28x12 grid. Seeds used to generate each stimulus are kept constant along the diagonals.
Ahead of the event, brush up on Compositionality by watching replays of our online session from a month ago, featuring Akshita Srinivasan, @CognOriginsLab, @CiccioneLorenzo, @MorfoisseTheo and @PMuhleKarbe!
Find the links on https://t.co/l0TlPusn1i
#Workshop at #CogSci2024
Compositionality in Minds, Brains and Machines: A unifying goal that cuts across Cognitive Sciences
Organisers: @B_Pomiechowska, Rachel Dudley, Lio Wong, and @MSableMeyer
Visit https://t.co/UmhNNcxofF to learn about the program, speakers and more!
How do we infer perceptual absences? Do beliefs about perception play a role in such inferences? And how does it all relate to cellist Natalia Gutman’s career decisions? Find answers in our new preprint with @moran_rani and @ClarePress:
https://t.co/T1V64SA0sH
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Let’s talk *c o m p o s i t i o n a l i t y * 🧵
Before #CogSci2024@cogsci_soc and our workshop on compositionality in brains, minds, and machines, join us next week on Wed 26 June for 👉a special online session Compositionality in Maths & Nonlinguistic Reasoning 👈 1/n
Come work with us! Looking for a 👉PhD student interested in finding out what makes human cognition special, studying symbolic thought, compositionality, behaviour &🧠@PMuhleKarbe Sarah Beck @UoB_SoP@TheCHBH Lab meetings in 🌳👇 reach out by 24/5 more in🧵Please RT! 1/n
Is a low-level associative learning strategy sufficient to encode sparse community network? In our new paper out in the Journal of Neuroscience, we argue that yes, see how in this thread! ▶️https://t.co/Is2DXqwPSB
Every other lab meeting, when I'm confused thanks to my poor mouse neuroanatomy knowledge:
wait, the oiah alosias region is involved in fine grained sturbly control?
We are happy to announce our next workshop: Making scientific illustrations for papers with AI tools! You will learn how to use simple prompts to reduce the time you need to spend on preparing visuals for your papers. And focus on what is REALLY important - science itself!
Happy to share my new first-author paper on visual sequence representation in the prefrontal cortex.
Thanks to my collaborators @fanispa@TvanKerkoerle@StanDehaene @bechirjarraya and @jo_bellet
https://t.co/KnpFutyu6s
New manuscript from the lab!
What is the neural code for reading?
Through simulations of convolutional neural networks, we propose a new hypothesis on how, in literate brains, neurons encode written letters and their relative positions within the word.
https://t.co/yuJ8QuugbL
New paper from the lab on compositionality, just out in Cell Reports :
“Tracking the neural codes for words and phrases during semantic composition, working memory storage and retrieval”
Available in open access: https://t.co/qnRI3tquNj
A thread (1/n)