Mark Thornton

@Mark_A_Thornton
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Assistant Professor at Dartmouth. Social neuroscientist studying how people understand and predict other people.
Personal websitehttp://markallenthornton.com
Lab websitehttp://scraplab.org
Experiment platformhttps://mysocialbrain.org
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Mark_A_Thornton

Please take advantage of the extended deadline (Oct 25) that was just announced to submit your work to the preconference data blitz session!

More info: ow.ly/XXbX50PXM17

Precon Submission Form: ow.ly/z6NY50PXM18

We're excited to be able to announce the keynote lineup for the #SPSP2024 computational preconference! Fiery Cushman (Harvard) will speak on computational models; Michael Muthukrishna (LSE) on data-driven discovery; & Aida Davani (Google Research) on bias in big data!
New blog post! Where does our abstract understanding of emotions come from? I summarize 3 recent papers
which suggest that emotion dynamics shape emotion concepts: http://markallenthornton.com/blog/transition-similarity/
The Dynamic Origins of Emotion Concepts

The Dynamic Origins of Emotion Concepts: Pop summaries of three papers

I should have done this ages ago, but I've finally assembled a list of the various methods tutorials/workshops I've taught over the years. If you're interested in techniques like RSA, ANNs, advanced cross-validation, and beyond, check out the notebooks here: http://markallenthornton.com/software/
Mark Allen Thornton

Mark Allen Thornton, Ph.D (Psychology), social neuroscientist

Submissions for the #SPSP2024 Computational Psychology preconference are now open! Apply by October 18th to present in our data blitz! Submission portal here: https://spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2024-preconference-submission-portal/
2024 Preconference Submission Portal

Use this submission form for all preconference submissions. Select your preconference first as this may change submission fields. You may submit to multiple preconferences. Attendees may register for one full-day virtual preconference on Day 1 – Wednesday, February 7, and one full-day in-person preconference or up to two half-day in-person preconferences on Day 2 – Thursday, February 8. This submission form will close on October 18, 11:59pm PT. Not all preconferences are accepting all forms of presentations. Check what presentation formats are being included in your preconference on the list below. Advances in Cultural Psychology : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Advancing LGBTIQ+ Research Across the Globe : Virtual - Feb. 7 2024 (data blitz, single presenter talk and posters) Attitudes & Social Influence : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Authenticity : Virtual - Feb. 7, 2024 (data blitz) Close Relationships : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Computational Psychology : In-Person: Feb 8, 2024 (data blitz) Conflict and Conflict Resolution : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz) Emotion : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (posters and data blitz) Evolutionary Psychology : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Existential Psychology : Virtual - Feb. 7, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Gender : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Group Processes and Intergroup Relations : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Happiness and Well-Being : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Health : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Intervention Science: Harnessing Psychology to Address Real-World Social Problems : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Judgment and Decision Making : In-Person: Feb 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Misinformation & Belief Science : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Moral Psychology : In Person: Feb 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Personality Science : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz) Political Psychology : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz, single presenter talks and posters) Psychology of Extremism : Virtual - Feb. 7, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Psychology of Media and Technology : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Psychology of Religion and Spirituality : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz and posters) Self & Identity : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (posters) Sexuality : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz, single presenter talks and posters) Social Cognition : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (data blitz, single presenter talk and posters) Sustainability Psychology : Virtual - Feb. 7, 2024 (data blitz) Teaching of Personality and Social Psychology : In-Person - Feb. 8, 2024 (posters)

A short piece from Luke Chang, Jeremy Manning, Matt van der Meer, and me about the motivation behind, our experiences with, and the future of Method In Neuroscience at Dartmouth (MIND): https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/08/vox-populi-keeping-next-generation-mind
Vox Populi: Keeping the Next Generation in MIND | Dartmouth

It's happening! There will be a Computational Preconference at #SPSP2024! Keep watching the convention website (and here) for details on schedule, speakers, and how you can apply to present in the data blitz! We're excited to see you in San Diego! https://spsp.org/events/annual-convention
That's it for MIND '23! Thanks to this awesome group of scholars for coming to Dartmouth PBS to learn & share methods for studying Interacting Minds! And for those who couldn't come, stay tuned: we will be releasing the tutorials from this year in a Jupyter book!

Planning to apply to PhD programs this fall? I'm looking to recruit a new student to @SCRAP_Lab! If you're interested, please check out the @DartmouthPBS departmental FAQ: https://pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/graduate/graduate-admissions/admissions-faqs & my lab policy doc, which you can find on this page: http://scraplab.org/people/

This year I am particularly looking for prospective graduate students who are interested in studying social cognition by using deep neural networks as cognitive models to explain the computations of social brain circuits.

Admissions FAQs

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
New from my lab: the results of our summer '23 hackathon! This year we took on the challenge of finding new ways to visualize and sonify conversation data such as turn-taking, head direction, and the acoustic and semantic features of words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPInp5tCzLM
Conversation data visualization and sonification: SCRAP Lab 2023 Summer Hackathon results

In its annual summer hackathon, my lab (the Social Computation Representations And Prediction Laboratory, or SCRAP Lab http://scraplab.org/) at Dartmouth Col...

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