Job Alert 🚨 - please share!
My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings!
Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU
More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...
“we found substantial positive correlations between nonsocial tasks. In contrast, tasks measuring social cognition were not correlated either with each other or with nonsocial measures”
Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data.
Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Can language models use subtext in their communication? Can they use common ground to incorporate subtext more effectively? In our new preprint, we study these questions across various domains — from visual communication to story writing games.
What does it mean for culture to “shape” 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...
Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser wissenschaftliches Team im Bereich Forschung zur psychischen Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen!
5 Jahre, 75% TV-L E 13 ab 1.8.2026 an der Universität Leipzig.
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/8...
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