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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Thank you Gabriella!
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
But see for yourself! concreteness.eu All the thanks to my collaborators @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social and @thelablab.bsky.social and big shout-out to the excellent Stanford NLU online course (this project started as my final submission).
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Concreteness Rating
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Another bonus: these ratings can be generated "in-context", because transformer word embeddings change depending on surrounding semantic information. (Think "I go to the bank to get money" vs "I walk on the sandbank" -> previous methods were not able to differentiate btw these)
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The result surpasses SOTA and even the reliability of human raters (at least in English). Interestingly, we were able to extend ratings to other languages with a simple translation step (suggesting that there may be something universal about these ratings).
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Why a multimodal transformer? We know that visual information is important for accurately rating concrete words. And because emotional information is important for accurately rating abstract words, we fine-tuned our model on a dataset of emotional image descriptions.
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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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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@emollick.bsky.social you might be interested in this paper of ours! It was a very nice collab across different orgs.
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Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
The rapid uptake of Generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), by students raises urgent questions about their effects on learning. We compared t
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I should say I mean this in a positive way for you, big fan of your work.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I think the lesson here is that most likely what you are projecting onto someone is more telling of who you are than who that person is.
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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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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
also that’s such an arrogant statement.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
it’s not flawed 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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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I guess attention is all you need after all
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
…but true
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I wish a smart mind like yours would not focus on the negative side for likes, but instead try to think about what we can do with the technology we have.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
that’s personal and not to the point.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
what are those other approaches and what impact have they had? I 100% appreciate the skepticism but it just works. No matter how many failures you quote it’s absolutely incredible we have a model as capable as today’s.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
why always so negative, Gary?
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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
@hugospiers.bsky.social yes it really was a great review process, can only recommend.
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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
thanks for your support 💪
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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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