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Jan DMIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences is over 25 years old by now and totally not up-to-date, but it is still immensely enjoyable to read. However, if you want something newer and openaccess, try <a href="https://oecs.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oecs.mit.edu/</a> (it sadly seems to lack some articles with relation to cultural anthropology)<a href="https://hci.social/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anthropology</a>

Tom StaffordNewsletter, my latest installment in the "how to think about the new AI models" series on Reasonable People<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/large-language-models-and-the-amazon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/large-language-models-and-the-amazon</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CogSci</a>

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.Are <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/languageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languageModels</a> vulnerable to <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/anchoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anchoring</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bias</a>?Huang et al. generated the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/SynAnchors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SynAnchors</a> dataset to find out.Anchoring was more common in shallower layers of models.A reflective reasoning strategy was usually most helpful.<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.15392" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.15392</a><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CogSci</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/edu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#edu</a>

Tom StaffordEncouraged by the reaction to yesterday's (very short) post : <a href="https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/ai-will-be-the-biro-of-thought" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/ai-will-be-the-biro-of-thought</a>I have a set of similar pre-baked talking points on how to make sense of the AI/LLM revolution, so this may be the first in a series<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CogSci</a>

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.At what point does giving <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> examples of ideal reasoning fail to produce additional benefit?With one popular <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> analyzing clinical cases, improvement wasn't linear: accuracy peaked at around nine examples and then declined (on average).<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztaf068" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztaf068</a><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/edu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#edu</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/cogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogSci</a>

Richard DallawaySad news: “BODEN — Professor Margaret (Maggie) Boden, renowned cognitive scientist and long-time member of the University of Sussex, died peacefully in Brighton on 18th July 2025, aged 88.”<a href="https://www.theargus.co.uk/memorials/death-notices/death/30683058.margaret-maggie-boden/notice/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theargus.co.uk/memorials/death-notices/death/30683058.margaret-maggie-boden/notice/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a>

ma𝕏poolARC-3, a sneak peek at the next-gen, interactive reasoning benchmark designed to illuminate the capability gap between today's AI and tomorrow's AGI. Play First 3 Games <a href="https://three.arcprize.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://three.arcprize.org/</a>As with previous ARC tests, the actual games used for testing AI are kept secret. AI algorithms must learn the games on the spot.There are no instructions. You must play the game to discover controls, rules, and goal.Interactive Reasoning Benchmarks (IRBs) test for a broad scope of capabilities:• Exploration • Percept -> Plan → Action • Memory • Goal Acquisition • AlignmentGame Design Constraints• Easy for humans (can pick it up in <1 min of game play) • Core Knowledge Priors (no language, trivia, cultural symbols) • Should require no instructions to play • Should be fun for humans and playable in 5-10 minutes • Innovative and novel game mechanics encouraged (Hidden state, theory of mind, long term planning, navigating other agents, etc.)<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ML</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MachineLearning</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ARC</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cognition</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cognitiveScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cognitiveScience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/deepLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deepLearning</a>

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.🧵This week I'm posting about presentations from two cool events (over on Twitter): <a href="https://x.com/byrd_nick/status/1943219893291164057" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/byrd_nick/status/1943219893291164057</a>What are the events? (1) The 1st Experimental Argument Analysis workshop (2) The 5th European <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/ExperimentalPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExperimentalPhilosophy</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conference</a><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/cogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogSci</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/xPhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xPhi</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Psychology</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Logic</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/edu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#edu</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#teaching</a>

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.Maybe <a class="u-url mention" href="https://pixelfed.social/Dockers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Dockers</a> opted for the misspelled "TruTemp" <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/branding?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#branding</a> because <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/philosophy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> had already taken "Truetemp". Aside: I recently published new data about <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/thoughtExperiments?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thoughtExperiments</a> like Truetemp: 🔒 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015</a> 🔓 <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y8sdm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y8sdm</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cogSci?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogSci</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/xPhi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xPhi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/trademark?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trademark</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/marketing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marketing</a>

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.Maybe @Dockers opted for the misspelled "TruTemp" <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/branding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#branding</a> because <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> had already taken "Truetemp".Aside: I recently published new data about <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/thoughtExperiments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thoughtExperiments</a> like Truetemp: 🔒 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015</a> 🔓 <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y8sdm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y8sdm</a><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/cogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogSci</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/xPhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xPhi</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/trademark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trademark</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marketing</a>

LSP-ENS🎉 TWO new preprints from our lab on hierarchical processing in ferret auditory cortex! 🦊🧠 🚨 Stay tuned for highlights on each study in the following posts 🚨 <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CogSci</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BioRxiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BioRxiv</a>

Stan Carey"Critical ignoring" as a strategy to control and immunize one's information environment (Kozyreva et al., 2023) <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/09637214221121570" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/09637214221121570</a>Such a useful frame for something I've long practised but didn't have a good term for before<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#information</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DigitalLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalLiteracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalThinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CogSci</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misinformation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disinformation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a>

Ulrike Hahnand he is at the forefront of research examining <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> in agent-based settings and agent-based modellinge.g., <a href="https://s.bingheai.cn:8443/abs/2409.02822" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://s.bingheai.cn:8443/abs/2409.02822</a>and<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02822" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02822</a>so this will be a totally different aspect to LLMs than what we’ve seen in the seminar series so far! <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cogsci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cogsci</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/philosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@philosophy</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ABMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ABMs</a>

Mark DingemanseYou hear a word like tugɯn-dugɯn and two possible meanings, ‘gentle movement’ or ‘heartbeat’. Which one do you pick? And what does this have to do with the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a> notion of structure mapping? Our paper in Open Mind explores these questions and more <a href="https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00162" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00162</a> (w/ Stella Punselie & Bonnie McLean)Blog about the paper here: <a href="https://ideophone.org/anatomy-of-iconicity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ideophone.org/anatomy-of-iconicity/</a>

Iris van Rooij 💭🎬🎥🍿 Video of my keynote at MathPsych2024 now available online <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwNPVTjJpo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwNPVTjJpo</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CogSci</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CriticalAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalAI</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIhype</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/PsychSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PsychSci</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/PhilSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhilSci</a> 🧪 <a href="https://youtu.be/WrwNPVTjJpo?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/WrwNPVTjJpo?feature=shared</a>

Tom StaffordNoticed 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*. 1/<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a>

Iris van Rooij 💭Teaser clip from the Q&A from my keynote at MathPsych2024 conference this year<a href="https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxPQN1pqdeD4ABP9BVvXsSDJb_6GIYmc6m" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxPQN1pqdeD4ABP9BVvXsSDJb_6GIYmc6m</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/criticalAIliteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criticalAIliteracy</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIhype</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a>

Tom StaffordNewsletter time!<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/legibility-and-legitimacy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/legibility-and-legitimacy</a>I had some thoughts about how the social life of reasons can push us into using cruder decision rules.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Reasoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reasoning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CogSci</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cogsci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cogsci</a>

Yohan John 🤖🧠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? <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a>

Dimitri Coelho MolloPreprint announcement:A. Vernazzani and I have just made available a paper of ours, soon to be published in a volume:<a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/VERFOD-2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philpapers.org/rec/VERFOD-2</a>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.<a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/philsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philsci</a> <a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/cogsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cogsci</a>

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