#BehSci | #Neuroscience | #Psychology

Relying on small sample studies is one of the methodological problems, especially in #neuroscience, #CogPsyc,#EEG, and some #Psychology experiments. An article in bioRvix may give some answers to this problem.

Introducing the new feed on Judgment & Decision Making #DecisionMaking #SocialJudgment #probability Related to: #appliedpsych, #BehEcon, #CogSci, #EconSky, #PsychSciSky, and #SocialPsyc. CC: @markrubin.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

It is estimated that about 10,000 years ago, the total human population (+ their livestock and pets) was 0.1% of all vertebrates. Today, this estimation is about 98%. 🧪 ___________________ MacCready, P. (1999). An ambivalent luddite at a technological feast. Designfax, 21(8), 26-31.

The Neural Correlates of Ambiguity and Risk in Human Decision-Making under an Active Inference Framework https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.18.558250v1

A letter signed by many researchers claims "Integrated Information Theory about #Consciousness" as pseudoscience. #CogSci | #Neuroskyence | #PhilSci | #PsychSciSky | #PsychSciSky | #philsky | 🧪 psyarxiv.com/zsr78/

Save-the-date 💾📆 *11th MindBrainBody Symposium* When? March 11-13, 2024 Where? Berlin & anywhere (virtual/hybrid) What? Talks, posters, workshops, prizes, & much more! More to follow - here & mindbrainbody.de #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging

E. O. Wilson (1999) once stated that a person is a "marvelous robot . . . wired (neuronally) with awesome precision". We try to grasp the limits of this precision (if there is one). #PsychSciSky 🧪 _________ Wilson, E. O. (1999). The biological basis of morality. Atlantic Monthly Online, 1–11.

Machine learning and hunter-gatherer children of Mbendjele (Bayaka Pygmies) have crucial things in common. They learn by unsupervised reinforcement learning (practice and feedback) and self-play. 🏺 🧪

It is remarkable that a science that began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge. 🎲 ____________________ Pierre Simon Laplace, Théorie Analytique des Probabilités (1812). Trans. A. S. Eddington. #philsci | #stats | #18thC | 🧪

"Why must we seek explanation in either Body or Mind? It is a false dichotomy." __________ Gibson, J. J. (1979/2015). The ecological approach to visual perception. Taylor & Francis. 🧪 | #philsci | #PsychSciSky | #cogpsyc

Existential Café, the representative of our sister laboratory in the field of existential philosophy & social psychology, has started broadcasting on #Bluesky. Welcome @existsplab.org 👋🏼 #socialpsyc | #eXist | #PsychSciSky | #philsky

Mental or neurodevelopmental disorder by type. (2019) Web Source: https://ourworldindata.org/neurodevelopmental-disorders Anxiety and depressive disorders have the first two most prominent frequencies of prevalence. #neuroskyence | #neurosky | #PsychSciSky

DaVinci's work on the left (around 1490) indicates that the three ventricles are the brain's sites of sensation, reason, and memory (ref. Aristotelian theory of soul). However, on the right (around 1507), an accurate cast of the ventricles was drawn. #PsychSciSky | #Neuroskyence | 🧪 🐡

In the early 1800s phrenologists claimed specific behaviors, feelings, and personality traits were controlled by corresponding specific regions of the brain and therefore one could “read” a person’s character by feeling the bumps on that person’s head. #Neuroskyence | 🧪 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social

A much more detailed analysis of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" can be found in Suk & Tamargo's 2009 paper (DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000368101.34523.e1) You can see central sulcus, cingulate sulcus, Sylvian fissure, optic chiasm, pituitary stalk, and so on. #Art | #PsychSciSky | Neuroskyence | 🧠 🧪 🎨

Meshberger (1990) claimed that Michelangelo's masterpiece painted in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican depicts the human brain. The oddly shaped drapery behind God and other figures' arrangement closely resembles the brain. 🧠 👨🏻‍🎨 🎨 🇻🇦⛪️ | #Art | #PsychSciSky | #Neuroskyence

For careful mummification of important people in Ancient Egypt (1500–1000 BCE), the priests preserved four important organs in alabaster jars in the tomb: liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines. The brain was useless, picked out through the nostrils and thrown away by excerebration. 🧠 #Neuroskyence

Can a machine know that we know what it knows? Some researchers claim that chatbots have developed the theory of mind. But is that our own theory of mind gone wild? #PsychSciSky | #Neuroskyence | #PhilSci 🧪 | #AI

(Hu)man ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter, and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears. 🧠 __________ Hippocrates (400 BCE) #PsychSciSky | #Neuroskyence | #PhilSci 🧪