Riccardo Fusaroli
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Social interactions and cognition, stats, computational modeling and machine learning, complex systems, language, and neuropsychiatric conditions.
Jonas 𝓜. NölleSome of the strategies we explored:
☑️explicit (auxiliary) assumptions
☑️ explicit alternative theories
☑️ computational and formal modelling
☑️ external consistency with theories of related phenomena
☑️ triangulating evidence
A better thread at a later stage :-)
Philosophy & folk-theories of science started on physics & controlled exp. What would happened if we had built on historical & explicitly fragmentary sciences? In this paper we explore how theories are built & improved in the study of the evolution and development of cognition & semiotic behaviors.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-024-00214-8
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Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect - Computational Brain & Behavior
In many scientific fields, sparseness and indirectness of empirical evidence pose fundamental challenges to theory development. Theories of the evolution of human cognition provide a guiding example, where the targets of study are evolutionary processes that occurred in the ancestors of present-day humans. In many cases, the evidence is both very sparse and very indirect (e.g., archaeological findings regarding anatomical changes that might be related to the evolution of language capabilities); in other cases, the evidence is less sparse but still very indirect (e.g., data on cultural transmission in groups of contemporary humans and non-human primates). From examples of theoretical and empirical work in this domain, we distill five virtuous practices that scientists could aim to satisfy when evidence is sparse or indirect: (i) making assumptions explicit, (ii) making alternative theories explicit, (iii) pursuing computational and formal modelling, (iv) seeking external consistency with theories of related phenomena, and (v) triangulating across different forms and sources of evidence. Thus, rather than inhibiting theory development, sparseness or indirectness of evidence can catalyze it. To the extent that there are continua of sparseness and indirectness that vary across domains and that the principles identified here always apply to some degree, the solutions and advantages proposed here may generalise to other scientific domains.
We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students.
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-professor-of-cognitive-science-at-the-school-of-communication-and-culture Get in touch if interested!
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-professor-of-cognitive-science-at-the-school-of-communication-and-culture Get in touch if interested!
https://x.com/jonasnoelle/status/1855619004028588466?t=39jdVARJD8RFqSFtS6EjVQ&s=19
Not gonna repeat the whole thread, because unfortunately most ppl I tagged are not on mstdn. But would like to repeat how much I loved the idea of an academic hackathon by @fusaroli! It was so much fun to organise in groups and work on a dataset without the pressure to 'produce' something. I learnt a ton and it felt very collaborative and inspiring.
Not gonna repeat the whole thread, because unfortunately most ppl I tagged are not on mstdn. But would like to repeat how much I loved the idea of an academic hackathon by @fusaroli! It was so much fun to organise in groups and work on a dataset without the pressure to 'produce' something. I learnt a ton and it felt very collaborative and inspiring.
Jonas Nölle @[email protected] (@jonasnoelle) on X
Had a blast at @AarhusUni 🇩🇰this week, tusind tak for the invite @interact_minds & @kristian_tylen! I also participated in @fusaroli's hackathon, where we collaboratively worked on a dataset and modelling conversations under messy real world conditions! Great productive format!👥
Very excited about research visits: #Aarhus University🇩🇰 next week (4-9 Nov). I will give a talk at the IMC on Tuesday
https://interactingminds.au.dk/events/single-events/artikel/imc-tuesday-seminar-05112024
And hang out with @fusaroli et al! Been so long that i visited my Alma Mater!
Afterwards (11-15 Nov) I'll visit the Center for Language Evolution Studies at #NCU Toruń🇵🇱 to discuss new #VR projects, #LanguageEolution and #ExperimentalSemiotics. Very excited about meeting a lot of old friends and eating pierogi! 🥟😋
https://interactingminds.au.dk/events/single-events/artikel/imc-tuesday-seminar-05112024
And hang out with @fusaroli et al! Been so long that i visited my Alma Mater!
Afterwards (11-15 Nov) I'll visit the Center for Language Evolution Studies at #NCU Toruń🇵🇱 to discuss new #VR projects, #LanguageEolution and #ExperimentalSemiotics. Very excited about meeting a lot of old friends and eating pierogi! 🥟😋
Conversations and neurodiversity. Here an initial list of scientific papers studying conversations involving autistic individuals, and quantifying things like expectations, rapport, linguistic alignment, backchannels, etc. : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1luNvyhAdaAkhHzkPXUxQmMBMU27vYHmoj_wPcWwnzVA/edit?usp=sharing What am I missing? Edits are welcome!
Neurodiverse conversations
Allen, M. L., Haywood, S., Rajendran, G., & Branigan, H. (2011). Evidence for syntactic alignment in children with autism. Developmental Science, 14(3), 540–548. Bolis, D., Bolis, D., Balsters, J. H., Balsters, J. H., Wenderoth, N., Wenderoth, N., Becchio, C., Becchio, C., Schilbach, L., & Schilb...
Mark DingemanseThis Tuesday afternoon session is devoted to conversation, broadly speaking, and we kick off with Morten Christiansen from Cornell, speaking on The Conversational Nature of Language
Christiansen starts out noting that the home of language is in conversation, citing Herb Clark, Martin Pickering & Simon Garrod, Wittgenstein, Levinson
(scribe's note: we might add luminaries like Gail Jefferson, Catherine Bateson, Eve Clark, Joan Bybee, Betty Couper-Kuhlen, Janet Bavelas — you get the point)
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We are looking for corpora of conversations where repairs and/or backchannels have been manually annotated. Ideally in US English, and including younger speakers. Any tips?
Out of context not at all discomforting mails: few days til Ragnarok! Dear Riccardo, you shall soon experience the Ragnarok 😅