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Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today 📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science 💶 They take time and money to collect ⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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A multimodal transformer-based tool for automatic generation of concreteness ratings across languages - Communications Psychology
This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00280-z
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Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make.
www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-neuroscience/breaking-the-barrier-between-theorists-and-experimentalists/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250224-breaking-barrier-theorists-experimentalists
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Most critiques of LLMs (e.g.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Direct Fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
Evolution is a blind fitting process by which organisms become adapted to their environment. Does the brain use similar brute-force fitting processes …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731931044X
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Sam Gershman
10 months ago
I wish playing dead were an option when responding to reviewers.
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Dan Lametti
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The neurobiology of language does not operate in a vat. An important perspective from the
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Language is widely distributed throughout the brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Language is widely distributed throughout the brain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-024-00903-0
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Context is everything: How context influences the way the brain processes concepts.
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Context is everything
How the brain processes concepts is influenced by contextual information, such as what a person is seeing, suggests new study.
https://buff.ly/3OK59uM
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VOR of this paper is out today in
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add a skeleton here at some point
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