Are you attending @cogdevsoc.bsky.social 2026? Come join us for an afternoon pre-conference workshop on motivation in development! We'll bring together developmental, educational, and computational perspectives to ask: Can we build a unified account of motivation across the lifespan? ✨
For more details, visit: unified-motivation.github.io/cds.
Feel free to direct questions to any of the organizers: @elainewang.bsky.social @bellafascendini.bsky.social @euniceyiu.bsky.social & @junyi.bsky.social.
We hope to see you there! 😀
📅 April 9, 12:30–3:30pm | Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal
Featuring talks by @jessicas.bsky.social, @katenuss.bsky.social, Nicholas Haber & @davidmsilverman.bsky.social, with a closing discussion by @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @hyogweon.bsky.social & @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social.
Registration deadline tomorrow! Come join our workshop! 😃✨
It's always a treat to read Ted Chiang's thoughts on AI.
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Are the laws of thought woven from three golden threads?
Tom @cocoscilab.bsky.social and I discuss some of the history and themes in logic, probability, and neural nets, in his new book The Laws of Thought.
braininspired.co/podcast/233/
A computational theory of Aha! moments! New paper explaining why Aha! moments occur & why they feel so good.
TLDR: They are a form of meta-cognitive prediction errors i.e. they occur when we surprise ourselves about our own abilities! @rachitdubey.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So excited that I’ll be joining @jesssalerno.bsky.social and Nick Schweitzer as a postdoc at Cornell starting this fall! Stay tuned for work on how people assign causal and moral responsibility in legal contexts!
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
