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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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.
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Most critiques of LLMs (e.g. @garymarcus.bsky.social) are ultimately about not wanting to accept that very dumb processes can lead to "intelligence". I think this paper offers a great perspective on how this could happen in both minds and machines. 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 …
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I wish playing dead were an option when responding to reviewers.
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Dan Lametti @daniellametti.com · 07/01/2025
The neurobiology of language does not operate in a vat. An important perspective from the @thelablab.bsky.social and colleagues: "Language is widely distributed throughout the brain" 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
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
VOR of this paper is out today in @elife.bsky.social.
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