statement we just received from UMass on the Hampshire college closing: UMass will takeover handling Hampshire student records, and Hampshire students can transfer in to UMass without fees
Functional dissociation of language and theory of mind in the developing superior temporal lobe
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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
🚨 Tom Griffiths has a podcast where he interviews cognitive scientists
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
This just went to the top of my list.
Sensorimotor transformation of number in the primate parietal cortex
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Lauren Aulet
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 ...
How the brain transforms perceived number into corresponding numbers of self-generated actions is unknown. Here, the authors show that neurons in primate ventral intraparietal area are tuned to the nu...
www.nature.com
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF.
I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
Science Podcast · How can we study the mind, something we can never see or touch? This podcast tells the story of how psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, linguists, and philosophers w...
Dr. Matthew Warburton and I put together a guide on "how to conduct behavioural experiments online"—something we wish we had when we were getting started.
Hopefully it’s useful, and we’d very much welcome any feedback!
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...
I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards.
This year, they have funded 2.
This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab:
Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex
@nature.com
"..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
