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🎬🎥🍿 Video of my keynote at MathPsych2024 now available online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwNPVTjJpo
#CogSci #CriticalAI #AIhype #AGI #PsychSci #PhilSci 🧪 https://youtu.be/WrwNPVTjJpo?feature=shared
The classical notion of a 'language of thought' (LoT), advanced prominently by the philosopher Jerry Fodor, is an influential position in cognitive science whereby the mental representations underpinning thought are considered to be compositional and productive, enabling the construction of new comp …
"electric fields...are causally relevant, and...informative."
Why not? They are there. Evolution uses what's available
Decoupling Measurements and Processes: On the Epiphenomenon Debate Surrounding Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/knjfw
#neuroscience
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"Tools for thinking: Overcoming obstacles to theory in psychological science"
Done writing the book.
(Deep inhale).
~90K words. A few years of work. A transformative journey that did not end at all as I thought when I started. I'm grateful to have done it - what a privilege. A much bigger conceptual project than anything I've done up to this point.
I got to think intensely for a better part of a few years (in parallel to running a lab and teaching as a professor). Somehow there was not time for that before. I'm not exactly sure where I found it; I just did.
There will be many revisions going forward. And it won't hit the shelves anytime soon. But I'm going to pause and celebrate this moment, where every one of the bits are finally in place. I learned so much along the way. Even today, on the last day, I was fascinated, and I'm grateful. (That said, I'm also a bit tired).
What's the book about? A slice of the spirit behind it is captured here: https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/is-the-brain-uncontrollable-like-the-weather/
End of the Year 2023 Gift
Timely Surprise from
@Brains
What is #Explanation
in #Neuroscience ?
Quarteto 5-15m Lectures
by Dr #MazviitaChirimuuta
1
https://youtu.be/p_zkx2M6YYw
2
https://youtu.be/rd5Pl4UfIDA
3
https://youtu.be/CQmWyb2gn-U
4
https://youtu.be/zuj5Z8o_-5w
A Beginner's Guide To Neural Mechanisms
https://www.neuralmechanisms.org/explanation-in-neuroscience-chirimuuta.html
#complexsystems
#neurotheory
#mindbrain
#neurodon
#neurobuzz
#theoreticalneuroscience
#PhilosophyOfAI
#systemsneuroscience
#PhilosophyOfNeuroscience
A quick selection of interesting papers from this year:
1) A level-headed intro to neural manifolds and how they tie into our current scientific project (Langdon et al.)
https://nature.com/articles/s41583-023-00693-x
2) A review on brain circuits of spatial navigation in fruit flies and other insects (Wilson).
https://annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-neuro-110920-032645
3) A philosophical treatment of constraint, which is a form of non-causal explanation that's kind of trendy right now (Ross).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04281-5 by
4) A sharp piece on the computational capacities of neural oscillations, and what they can and can't do for syntactical processing (Kazanina & Tavano).
https://nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00659-5
(My 2c: https://sandervanbree.com/posts/1497-the-scope-and-limits-of-oscillations-in-language-comprehension)
5) A prudent analysis on how neural oscillations relate to representation, leveraging the always useful causal/constitutive distinction (Martínez & Artiga).
https://philpapers.org/rec/MARNOA-7
6) A model of space and concept learning with both algorithmic and neural commitments (Mok & Love).
https://science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.ade6903
Paper alert! Our lastest article is available online. It's a perpsective piece in which we argue that recording neuronal oscillations during sleep via EEG could reveal neurophysiological biomarkers to aid the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. We discuss the possibility of using at-home systems that take advantage of advances and cost reductions in portable EEG. This is an area that we're now beginning to pursue, so watch this space
https://journals.lww.com/nrronline/citation/9900/sleep_based_neuronal_oscillations_as_a.47.aspx
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