Sign in

James Strachan

@jwastrachan.bsky.social
152 followers 296 following 12 posts

Cognitive scientist interested in joint action, learning, and culture. Researcher at Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique in Rabat, Morocco

PostsRepliesMedia
James Strachan @jwastrachan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🚨🚨 New paper out now in Computers in Human Behaviour 🚨🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇
sciencedirect.com
GPT-4o reads the mind in the eyes
Humans possess a sophisticated ability to read the mind in the eyes of other people. Here we tested whether this ability is also present in GPT-4o, a …
100
James Strachan @jwastrachan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Better late than never to announce that I have now moved to take up a one-year postdoc position at the Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique #UM6P in Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦 Very excited to get started on this new chapter
100
James Strachan @jwastrachan.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
New paper out now in Nature Human Behaviour We administered a range of standard Theory of Mind tests to LLMs and humans in order to compare how models performed at tests of social reasoning link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans - Nature Human Behaviour
At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people’s mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has...
131
Reposted by James Strachan
Emma Suvi McEwen @emmasmcewen.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn and all my other wonderful co-authors! Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
12012
James Strachan @jwastrachan.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Check out our paper (thread below) on Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination in Perspectives on Psychological Science
030