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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Interested in radical exploration in science? There's evidence that it can actually be the best strategy for discovery. We talk about it in our new episode of the Night Science Podcast episode with Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social)! Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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ellaqiawenliu.bsky.social @ellaqiawenliu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
New paper out in Psych bull & review! With @glupyan.bsky.social It’s a big-picture review on cross-domain mapping: how people connect things across senses and concepts, and why (weak) synesthesia and metaphor might all be part of the same story. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The unity of sense and mind: A review of cross-domain mapping - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
If the sound of a trombone had a taste, would it be bitter? In what way is solving a puzzle like navigating a relationship? People consistently map information across sensory modalities and conceptual...
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ellaqiawenliu.bsky.social @ellaqiawenliu.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thanks Adele! ❤️ Proud to work with Jeroen and Gary. We ask: what can be learned about colors from language—and where in language does it come from? We show certain co-occurrence may help align meanings across minds despite large variation in perceptual experience.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Very cool work by Qiawen (Ella) Liu, Paridon, @glupyan.bsky.social: e.g., Is white hot or cold? LMs consider 'white' cold because it's mediated by 'snow' Ablate the mediators, and you eliminate the associations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Learning about color from language - Communications Psychology
Blind people show similar associations between adjectives (e.g. cold) and colours (e.g. blue) as sighted people; word embedding models trained on corpora of written and spoken language learn these ass...
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