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Not gonna be checking in here much. The pros/cons⚖️ have been very much on the con side for a while now...
Gary Lupyan
@glupyan
Professor of Psychology at @UWMadison. Cognitive Scientist. Father of 2. Language; Categorization; Evolution; Perception; Reasoning. I also fly planes.
- Did no one look at Figure 1?
Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by @EvaRanehill, @annahsandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun… - Are you into language? Perception? Intrigued by placebos? Here's a review that brings it all together. Really happy how this turned out! tldr: Language really can change what you perceive.Effects of language on visual perception bit.ly/3iCIbDk By @glupyan, Rasha Abdel Rahman, @leraboroditsky, & Andy Clark
- Survey results!!! We (@billdthompson @aucksAdventures ) recently published a paper investigating translatability of languages using distributional semantic alignment. (see sapir.psych.wisc.edu for copy of paper)
- Some people have a lot of inner speech; others none (e.g., psyarxiv.com/yfb3h/ ). Am curious what folks think might be some cognitive differeces -- both in lang processing and nonling cognition -- b/w people who have lots of inner speech vs. little to none.
- @FelixHill84 @spiantado @IbanDlank @tmalsburg @AndrewLampinen As a cognitive scientist (trained in the connectionism), I find large language models (LLMs) not just scientifically relevant, but critical to the future of cog sci. Why? Here are two reasons + some "but what about.?"
- Synesthesia is an example of a *masked difference*: Most don't experience it and don't realize it exists; some experience it and don't realize others don't. What's your favorite example of other masked differences?
- Because English doesn't grammatically distinguish between different forms of possession: My arm, my car, my brother, my country, my friend -- yes they're different forms of possession, but we use "my" with all. There are enough problems in the world; no need to create more.
- #CogSci twitter: What are some key concepts, expressible in 1-2 words that you think are critical to cogsci discourse? (i.e. if you're not familiar with it, you'll be very confused). I'll start: "representation"
