Nithin George

Interested in attentional control and learning. Assistant Professor @ Ahmedabad University

[দীপাঞ্জন Dipanjan @DipanjanMBBSlab]

Excited about virtual reality in mental health? Want to explore research pre-PhD? Background/interest in quantitative/clinical fields? Join us as a project associate at the MBBS lab @AshokaUniv ! #VR #MentalHealth #ResearchOpportunity https://t.co/1lbp1NfdOC

[ᴅʀ ᴍɪʀᴄᴇᴀ ᴢʟᴏᴛᴇᴀɴᴜ 🍂 🍃 @mzloteanu]

#statstab #45 Visualizing Hierarchical Models by @mf_viz

Thoughts: One of the coolest visualisation websites for mixed effects models I had saved.

#stats #mixedeffects #hierarchicalmodels #rstats #MLM

https://t.co/SjXJ407A0I

[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

The illusion of neutrality: "Scientists refraining from engaging with socio-political issues in a not-neutral world is not neutrality. It is a political position that avoids responsibility to society" https://t.co/hQv5tW75Wv

[Valentin Hofmann @vjhofmann]

💥 New paper 💥

We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups.

For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English.

🧵

[Yohan J. John @DrYohanJohn]

"Is there evidence for the claim that humans have a Bayesian brain in the realist sense? No direct evidence has been presented to date. "

Rahnev (2019). https://t.co/cHMe6WiIMq

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Long-term memory and working memory compete and cooperate to guide attention
https://t.co/pj8gok6WJO

[Morten H. Christiansen @MH_Christiansen]

👉Language science has been ignoring the role feedback in language learning for too long!
📣The first paper from a new line of @CSL_Lab research just out, headed by @FFrinsel and with @fabio_trecca:
https://t.co/AaYGrZ6G5O
See this 🧵for additional info: https://t.co/WzoGBJclCD

[SP Arun @sparuniisc]

**** Please circulate widely ****
Students interested in research opportunities in neuroscience at Centre for Neuroscience IISc - please register for these interactive sessions on March 10 & 17 at
https://t.co/sM8e7fQ2WK
#CNSIISc
Queries: [email protected]

[Working Memory Symposium @WMSymposium]

There is one week left to submit an abstract for this year's Working Memory Symposium!

Abstracts are due by May 31 (any time zone, link on our home page): https://t.co/orEd0L9VHE

[Igor Utochkin @IUtochkin]

If you teach Sensation & Perception and/or quantitative skills, have ever you thought to combine them? I have developed a practical module allowing to teach basics of psychophysics and computational modeling using a set of creative problem cases
https://t.co/3RA5sVKqLw

[SP Arun @sparuniisc]

Come attend the awesome Bangalore Cognition Workshop at IISc from June 15-21 2024! Apply at
https://t.co/WAVDGKihG9
Deadline: Feb 29 2024
Please circulate widely!

[Dan Quintana @dsquintana]

“Underpowered to detect what?” should be the first question to anyone who says a “study” is underpowered https://t.co/Hk6KTUZNgm

[Richard Allen @richjallen]

Registration for the International Conference on Working Memory is now open! Student and non-student rates available, and an early bird fee up to 31st March.
Details here: https://t.co/X7v1t2Q0uQ
See you in Leeds in June!
#workingmemory #ICWM24

[Wayne Wu @attninaction]

@AlonZivony https://t.co/DImD8UYddV

[Alon Zivony 🏳️‍🌈 @AlonZivony]

Reposting in case one of you critical philosophy oriented attention/cog-psy geeks didn't see this. The positive comments were nice, but I'm still looking for criticisms!

[Paul Thompson @PTenigma]

This was an entertaining debate between @ylecun and the inimitable neuroscientist, Karl Friston:
https://t.co/JVSIObxfOa
I don't think their positions are very different in the end - in David Foster's wonderful Generative Learning book (2nd edn. [1]), there is a summary of how Friston and colleagues' learning algorithm based on the free energy principle [2] is quite close to the reinforcement learning methods used in today's computational #AI APIs that were gradually developed without strong allegiance to how the brain works. I think their positions are very close indeed, and the apparent melodramatic argument (saying things are "rubbish") was probably staged for media purposes and entertainment. It is like one is playing the Nimzo-Indian defense and the other is playing the English opening, but they are both playing chess, and the approaches they advocate will succeed to different degrees for different problems, and both are clearly successful approaches, both with a great and very promising future.
[1] https://t.co/9I38lUWMlm
[2] https://t.co/wlIBPZzBTL

[Morten H. Christiansen @MH_Christiansen]

Not sure how to deal with #ChatGPT and the like in your teaching? Take a look at the guidelines we worked out as a committee at @Cornell these past few months, including appendices with field-specific #education recommendations (e.g., social science):
https://t.co/kbDfCrUp1a

[Morten H. Christiansen @MH_Christiansen]

📣Doing work on statistical learning?
The deadline for submitting your research to the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning is just over 3 weeks away:
📅 March 1, 2024
The conference takes place June 5-7 in San Sebastian, Spain
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[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

Missed "Mechanism and Neuroscience" by @ProfLaurenRoss and @DaniSBassett ??
Great discussion of these key questions in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon.

Check out the link here!
https://t.co/PVuyjkDA20

[Robb Rutledge @RobbRutledge]

Come join us for the second annual Computational Psychiatry conference. Abstracts due feb 7.

Speakers: https://t.co/gOoyR76bLJ

inc. @DrDamienFair @NIMHDirector @CoolsControl @angelaradulescu @_AnnaKonova_ @mpwpaulus @DrAnitaRandolp1 @JustinBakerMD