I recently read @djnavarro 's 2021 paper "If Mathematical Psychology Did Not Exist We Might Need to Invent It: A Comment on Theory Building in Psychology" (https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620974769).

It's a gem on the role and use of theory in cognitive psychology (and related fields, by extension) and the relation of theory to statistics. As expected, the footnotes are a joy. For my extra reading pleasure, I imagined the paper written in Danielle's sweary-blog style.

#theory #CognitivePsychology #CogPsych #MathematicalPsychology #MathPsych #MetaScience #paper #paper

An adversarial collaboration reports that mathematical reflection tests assess #math ability about as much as anything else. 😬

And what is the evidence that the paper's “independent” measure of reflection actually measured reflection? 🧐

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409191121

#psychometrics #psychology #cogPsych #JDM #decisionScience #economics #factorAnalysis #stats #rStats

I've been really confused looking at data that seem (to my eye) super similar to data we've collected in many previous experiments but statistically didn't replicate. I've been digging through my code trying to figure out if I've made a mistake.

Looks like there are maybe just some participants who are mashing buttons on Prolific? A small group with false alarm rates orders of magnitude more than previous experiments. Anyone else having issues?

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Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science!

A review plus model of how cognitive control plays an essential role in resolving conflict during language comprehension

https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231197122

#linguistics #cogsci #cogpsych #psycholinguistics @psycholinguistics

ig #introductions.

I am a Compsci & Psych major, senior year, looking to go to grad school for #datascience next year (prospects looking good!). I love probabilistic modeling (still trying to distinguish it from ML tbh), but am very new to it all. I work in a #cogpsych lab right now, and doing a thesis project.

I also love saber #fencing and my dream rn is actually getting together prediction models of fencers, still debating whether I want to look into local or top champs. When I'm not fencing, I'm rock climbing. But uh, rn school is sapping all of my time and energy :(

Loving mastodon a decent amount, however, that might be because I'm pseudo-anonymous so I can spew my leftist bullshit :)

The most detailed map ever made of the communication links between the hippocampus and the rest of the brain has been created by Australian scientists. And it may change how we think about human memory. https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/most-in-depth-map-of-the-hippcampus-raises-connection-questions-367546

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