President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
What does it mean for culture to āshapeā cognition?
In our new TiCS paper, @benjaminpitt.bsky.social & I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture
can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!
Memorability as an Emergent Property: How Representational Structure Creates Apparent Intrinsic Effects osf.io/preprints/ps...
Exciting analysis of objects in kids' everyday visual input (BabyView). Today's best categorization models still train on curated photos ā not the long-tailed categories and non-canonical viewpoints kids actually see. A difference in kind, not just quantity, pointing to a fundamental algorithmic gap
So excited about this new workācheck it out and go see Janeās talk on Sunday if youāre at #VSS2026!
This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so farāabsolutely stunning CREDIT:NASA
Brilliant! In part b/c it holds up happiness as an illustration of whatās what š. But more seriously: IF YOUR SO CALLED THEORY DOESNāT MAKE TESTABLE PREDICTIONS ITāS A FRAMEWORK. #TheoriesAreTheGoal
Excellent example of an influential framework-not-a-theory here:
experimentology.io/002-theories...
For a year and a half, @carorowland.bsky.social, @lehersingh.bsky.social, Marisa Casillas, Shanley Allen, and I have been meeting to discuss whether innateness is still a useful concept to think about in studying language acquisition.
Here's our take: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me.
Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup.
babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life.
What do the inputs to this learning process actually look like?
New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2605.14990
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life.
What do the inputs to this learning process actually look like?
New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2605.14990
Mike Frank
Mike Frank
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process look like? We analyzed first-person videos ...
arxiv.org
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process look like? We analyzed first-person videos ...
What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary.
Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories ā they're frameworks.
š§µ experimentology.io
