Iris Berent

I'm a Professor of Psychology at Northeastern. I study human nature, and why we (laypeople) cannot get it right.

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@GaryMarcus Horrific. Thanks for sharing

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@gVallortigara @vallortigara Same here. It’s a wonderful book!

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Finally read The Origins of Consciousness and loved it! Challenging some of the dogmas of consciousness research, @Vallortigara shows how innate instincts can support cognition in small brains and how the efferant copy mechanism could grant them sentience.

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Phonology is both "embodied" and abstract. How come? A new paper in Glossa https://t.co/QKLJ8worTl Thank you, Bridget Samuels and Veno Volenec, for editing this special issue!

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@gVallortigara @maria_loconsole @LuciaRegolin @BUnipd I don't know; some associations could be driven by language metaphors. But in the case of articulation, the association could be "baked" into the core mechanisms of speech perception. Of course, it's an empirical question.

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@gVallortigara @maria_loconsole @LuciaRegolin @BUnipd We can--our semantic metaphors are vast, as Lakoff has long shown. But the Maluma/Takate is also articulatory (round vs. unround features), and humans invoke motor simulation in speech perception. So motor simulation could guide the Maluma effect in humans, but not chicks.

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@GaryMarcus Nice interview!

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@gVallortigara @sole24ore So nice to see— thank you so much, Giorgio!

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@gVallortigara @mirkuz12 @davide_zoccolan Congratulations!!

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@platobooktour @sapinker And your ideas matter!

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@gVallortigara @Jovitope @SheardownEva @ElenaMiletto @b_butterworth @Dan10R3r10 @brennan_lab Congratulations!

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@gVallortigara @MarsilioEditori Congratulations, dear Giorgio— so wonderful to s e. Cannot wait for the English translation!

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@schwick777 Don't know. At stake is (a) whether ToM promotes consciousness, and if yes, (b) whether its role is computational or substantive.

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@langofmind @GaryMarcus Absolutely! It’s precisely because we are intuitive dualists that we ought to give physicalism careful deliberate consideration

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Many people claim they are staunch physicalists. But when given a brief implicit association task, it turns out they are closet dualists. Thanks @GaryMarcus for challenging us! Out in Open Mind. https://t.co/gjeGwbeWXZ

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@paulbloomatyale Where would we be without the unconscious?

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@gVallortigara Wonderful to see!

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Great symposium on consciousness intuitions and illusions with ⁦@davidchalmers42⁩, ⁦@ClaraColombatto⁩ and Matan Mazor at the ASSC, Crete.