#cogsci
Do people diagnosed with #autism respond differently to moral dilemmas?
In MINORS, sacrificial harm waned with age, more slowly in the ASD group: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05795-6
In ADULTS, decisions were similar: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112889
Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?
#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Colour https://lobste.rs/s/ibfmsg #art #cogsci #graphics
https://hg2dc.com/
TWO new preprints from our lab on hierarchical processing in ferret auditory cortex! 
Stay tuned for highlights on each study in the following posts
#Neuroscience #CogSci #BioRxiv
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking via @toast https://lobste.rs/s/p4bcxv #pdf #ai #cogsci
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness
https://johnaustin.io/articles/2025/issues-with-cielab-and-perceptual-brightness
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://johnaustin.io/articles/2025/issues-with-cielab-and-perceptual-brightness
Noticed via a couple of podcasts that some people are using "did not replicate" to mean "didn't turn out to be as useful as claimed"
Yes, *some* psych phenomena turned out to have effect sizes at or close to zero (ego depletion)
But others are vary reliably non-zero (e.g. race IAT scores), we just don't know what - if anything - that means. The phenomenon does *replicate*.
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The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? https://lobste.rs/s/5hjq6v #cogsci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
Are large language models 'symbolic' or 'subsymbolic'? Perhaps both?
More broadly, do you think the striking abilities of LLMs have blurred the distinction between symbolic and subsymbolic processes?
And do LLMs solve a version of the symbol grounding problem?
Preprint announcement:
A. Vernazzani and I have just made available a paper of ours, soon to be published in a volume:
https://philpapers.org/rec/VERFOD-2
It is a sort of companion piece to a paper of ours on representational formats published in PhilSci last year. While that paper proposed a novel computational theory of formats, this one takes a more negative tack, investigating how reliance on everyday intuitions misleads research on formats in cognitive science.
Does anyone know about Helmholtz machines, or similar, and would be open to me asking a couple of questions?
I do experimental cognitive psychology and they're outside my expertise, and I think my questions are the type that are hard to answer through reading individual papers myself but should be simple for someone who is familiar with the higher level assumptions and norms of the field.
Thanks!
Do moral dilemmas elicit competing intuitions? Not in all countries
Consider two options:
- Reduce great harm even when that requires causing a smaller amount of harm (a la utilitarianism)
- Do no harm, even when that allows more harm than necessary (a la deontology)
In the U.S., the moral appropriateness of utilitarian and deontological options correlated NEGATIVELY, but in China they correlated POSITIVELY!
From #JohnHopfield on his #Nobel prize: "I think that the prize is recognizing, in part, the fact that understanding the deep problems of things like #mind is not going to come forth in some simple way like Newtonian physics. It really requires much more understanding of the relationship between structure and properties, and structure dynamics and properties."
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hopfield/interview/
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell
(Santa Fe) at the AI Spotlight Seminars organized by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), UK
Her talk "AI's challenge of understanding the world" is available at:
https://youtube.com/live/gRJgqSbk71o?feature=shared
#AI #cogsci #humanlikeminds #humanlevelintelligence #Cognitivesystems #ArtificialIntelligence #cognition
This is a fascinating article on the solid scientific evidence we have now for the independence of language and thought.
The other primates, the corvids, and many other animals can think but don’t have a language, so it makes sense that humans can think without language as well.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-dont-need-words-to-think/
Ready for Institute 2024: the Schloss Dagstuhl School on Artificial and Human Intelligence starting tomorrow! Glad and honored to be invited here along with lecturers of the caliber of Barbara #Tversky, Thomas Eiter, Clayton Lewis, Alessandra Russo and many others.
School: https://lnkd.in/dPetJmsN
Program: https://lnkd.in/dsid4_TX
#AI #generativeAI #cognitiveAI #Cognitivesystems #cognitivescience #cogsci #ArtificialIntelligence