Asifa Majid
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Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford
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Bodo Winter
11 days ago
New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ā¬ļø And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? š
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Andrew Perfors
10 days ago
Another fun paper! We asked what words people find easiest to predict in a sentence, which is a good way to study how we represent lexical concepts. Found that people rely on more than just predictive statistics - it's more about which words are central in our semantic association networks.
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot
10 days ago
Because the eyeās high-acuity region is so small, where we look serves as a precise, moment-by-moment window into our cognitive goals and intentions. Eye Movements by Mary Hayhoe
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.a42adb11
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot
10 days ago
Human cognition extends beyond the brain into external tools, though debates persist over whether these artifacts amplify our minds or simply⦠Cognitive Artifacts by Valeria Giardino
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.5e3d3713
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Stan Carey
11 days ago
Loved this chat about words for smells, with
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
and
@asifamajid.bsky.social
(27 mins.)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Smell
Michael Rosen on the words used to describe the qualities of smells in different languages
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xgzt
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The Experimental Psychology Society
about 1 month ago
The meeting programme and information about the conference dinner is now available for
#EPSEssex
! Please visit our webpage:
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st ā 3rd July 2026. This meeting will celebrate the EPSā 80th Anniversary with a symposium entitled, āWhere is experimental psychology now, and where ā¦
https://eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Lovely tribute to a pioneer in the study of visual perception across cultures.
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Herdwick Sheep
19 days ago
Weāve always felt smell is an underappreciated sense..
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Michael Rosen
19 days ago
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Sandie Cleland
12 months ago
New preprint of a series of studies that surprised us(!) We report six studies investigating SNARC effects for non-symbolic representations of quantity. Contrary to our previous findings, we find SNARC effects for colour decision to non-symbolic quantities
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4za97
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Mike Frank
3 months ago
Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study: LEVANTE:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
BabyView:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
(deadline 5/1)
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IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-predoctoral-researcher-30349
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The Experimental Psychology Society
3 months ago
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Presidentās Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Newcastle 2026 meeting is Karen Hoang. Congratulations
@karenhoang.bsky.social
! For full information, please visit:
eps.ac.uk/presidents-p...
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Presidentās Poster Commendation Prize Winner ā EPS Newcastle 2026
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Presidentās Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Newcastle 2026 meeting is Karen Hoang. Karenās Research Study Poster is entitled āThe development of eā¦
https://eps.ac.uk/presidents-poster-commendation-prize-winner-eps-newcastle-2026/
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The Experimental Psychology Society
3 months ago
The next EPS Meeting will be at the University of Essex from 1st ā 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture and the 15th Frith Prize Talk. Portals for this meeting will open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am (UK time) and for at least 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st ā 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture by Melissa Colloff (and accompanying symposium organised by Markus Bindemann). This meetiā¦
https://eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Nora Newcombe
3 months ago
This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Challenges in Navigation Research
This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-20563-6
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Matt Zwolinski
3 months ago
A free, searchable index of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews. Covers 1,200+ journals going back to the 1890s. Filter by subfield, journal, author, reviewer, year, or access type. Built it because I kept wishing this existed. Now it does.
philreviews.org
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PhilReviews
A comprehensive, searchable database of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews across 1,480 academic journals.
http://philreviews.org
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Fernanda Ferreira
3 months ago
Super thrilled that my article "Prosody" is now available to read in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc...
Thanks to
@asifamajid.bsky.social
and
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing resource for our community!
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Prosody
https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc/release/1
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Mike Frank
4 months ago
New blogpost about a teaching experiment I'm doing this quarter: a "socratic tutor" bot to help students gain understanding of specific reading assignments.
babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-l...
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An LLM-backed "socratic tutor" to replace reading responses
Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
https://babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-llm-backed-socratic-tutor-to-replace.html
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Simon Fisher
4 months ago
Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course āGenetics & Neurobiology of Languageā July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available:
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social
@cshlbanbury.bsky.social
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Fred Callaway
4 months ago
I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (
@cocoscilab.bsky.social
). You can read it for free! (see thread)
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The Experimental Psychology Society
4 months ago
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory. Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!
eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
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EPS 80th Anniversary SymposiumĀ ā Call for Proposals
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fuā¦
https://eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-anniversary-symposium-call-for-proposals/
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Bodleian Libraries
4 months ago
The wet weather produces some beautiful photos! Thank you to estherjohnsonphotography on Instagram for this wonderful shot of the Clarendon Building. šø
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Jennifer Hu
4 months ago
I wrote a short article on AI Model Evaluation for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science šš Hope this is helpful for anyone who wants a super broad, beginner-friendly intro to the topic! Thanks
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
and
@asifamajid.bsky.social
for this amazing initiative!
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Jamie Reilly š¦
5 months ago
2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help
www.reilly-coglab.com/data
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Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities ā Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
https://www.reilly-coglab.com/data
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Sebastian Sauppe
5 months ago
This is a great paper going deep on the connection between language (and linguistic diversity) and the mind! šššš Highly recommended (like every paper from
@enorcliffe.bsky.social
and
@asifamajid.bsky.social
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New paper with
@enorcliffe.bsky.social
The Lexical Typology of Sensory Perception
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The Lexical Typology of Sensory Perception
Sensory language has fascinated researchers, as it is here that meaning most clearly straddles biology and culture. Since the seminal work on color vocabularies, typologists have attempted to describe...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011425-091857
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Jonathan Tsay
5 months ago
New article in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
@oecs-bot.bsky.social
on Motor Learning. Thank you
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
@asifamajid.bsky.social
for the opportunity to contribute!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/l3hscpvx...
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Motor Learning
https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/l3hscpvx/release/1
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New paper: Evidence of crossmodal compensation in the conceptual representation of blind people: while they share visual associations with sighted people, blind people more strongly associate concepts with touch
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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A new twist to the idea that future tense use affects decision makingš Cole Robertson
@seangroberts.bsky.social
et al show itās not future tense that drives psychological discounting but how people express the possibility of future events happening (modality).
authors.elsevier.com/c/1m4gJ2Hx2-...
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8 months ago
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Sheina Lew-Levy
10 months ago
@durhampsych.bsky.social
current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with
@drboothroyd.bsky.social
on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Fees and Funding - Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/psychology/postgraduate-study/funding/
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David Adger
10 months ago
New podcast!
@dannybate.bsky.social
and I chat about Scottish Gaelic, mediaeval sea kingdoms, the spread and retreat of Gaelic in Scotland, influence from Pictish, sounds borrowed from Old Norse, and much more š¦š¦
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
or wherever you get your podcasts :)
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Scottish Gaelic and David Adger
Podcast Episode Ā· A Language I Love Is... Ā· 10/09/2025 Ā· 1h 1m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-language-i-love-is/id1703401848?i=1000725924840
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Mark Rubin
10 months ago
New scoping review and critical discourse analysis of guidance documents on open science (OS) urges researchers to be āmore precise about the specific approach they take to OS and more humble about the effects it can have.ā Preprint by
@jeroenderidder.bsky.social
and colleagues:
osf.io/zr35u_v1
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Rebecca Sear
10 months ago
"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"
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Psychology Within and Without the State | Annual Reviews
Psychological research in small-scale societies is crucial for what it stands to tell us about human psychological diversity. However, people in these communities, typically Indigenous communities in ...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-110248
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Bodo Winter
11 months ago
Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" š„³ Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/
@jeannettel.bsky.social
&
@mperlman.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures
Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as āiconic,ā that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...
https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70098
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Gasper Begus
10 months ago
Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
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Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
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New paper: Validation of the Coffee Knowledge Test for Assessing Expertise in Coffee with Jonas Yde Junge,
@icroij.bsky.social
, Line Ahm Mielby, and Ulla Kidmose
doi.org/10.1111/joss...
#OpenAccess
10 months ago
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Bob Pellegrino
11 months ago
1/5 Odor intensity isnāt just about concentration! We have a new preprint to prove it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In cahoots with
@jmainland.bsky.social
,
@alexkoulakov.bsky.social
, Rick Gerkin, Khristina Samoilova and others not on bluesky. š§Ŗ Which of these molecules smells stronger?
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Lane Greene
10 months ago
Remembering the Whorf quote about how languages cut reality up in different ways. A Danish supermarket has a āpĆ„lƦgā fridgeāessentially things that go on (open-faced) sandwiches (see pic of pic).Itās where you find ham & salmon & various patĆ©s. But not cheese, which has its own slice of reality.
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Peter Adamson
11 months ago
Long read on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who we had the honor of interviewing on the History of Africana Philosophy podcast a while back:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Take away our language and we will forget who we are: NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiongāo and the language of conquest
The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisatio...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/12/ngugi-wa-thiongo-aminatta-forna-decolonisation-language-conquest
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anthony k websteršæ
11 months ago
I'm sorry to hear of the passing of Robin Lakoff, hugely influential. The first work of hers I encountered was Talking Power, which we read in an undergrad class for Myrdene Anderson
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David Barner
11 months ago
Susan Carey mic-drop at
#cogsci2025
. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"
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Tobias Gerstenberg
11 months ago
Brilliant keynote by
@laurennross.bsky.social
at
#cogsci2025
on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! š
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Tobias Gerstenberg
11 months ago
Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at
#cogsci2025
on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.
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Kanishka Misra
11 months ago
Dougās papers on concepts and categories (along with Smith, Murphy) had a heavy influence on me during PhD! So happy his work was recognized!!! And such a powerful speech too š
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todd gureckis
11 months ago
Congrats to Doug Medin on becoming the next Rumelhart prize winner! š My āacademic grandpaā through multiple pathways!
#cogsci2025
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Vivek V. Venkataraman
11 months ago
Pleased to present our new preprint on sleep and circadian rhythms among the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia. This is a fascinating system for exploring sleep biology. Lots of variation in light exposure, housing type, and subsistence.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Cognitive Science Society
11 months ago
Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! š #CogSci2025
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Natalia VƩlez
11 months ago
Notes from
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!!
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It's amazing that we can communicate with so many researchers across the world in English, but how do we do that and still allow local languages to thrive in different contexts?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Academic language has become a proxy for European culture wars
Some European governments are rethinking the use of English in universities, exposing tensions between internationalization and national priorities.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01983-3?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20250731&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-250731
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Looking for a new Editor-in-Chief for one of the oldest psychology journals in the UK. Established over 75 years ago, QJEP is looking for someone with vision and verve to steer it through the next years. Open call!
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