We won best paper at the COLM Workshop on Agent Behavior for our paper: AI Assistants Overassist!

Congratulations @veronateo.bsky.social, Raghav Jain and @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social! Check out the preprint arxiv.org/abs/2607.21306

The long-standing debate over whether emotions are obstacles to rationality or essential guides for human judgment remains unresolved in modern…

Foundations of Emotion by Christine Tappolet
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.788d38b2

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The human mind instinctively extracts order from chaos, tracking probabilities across sounds and scenes to build complex knowledge from raw input.

Statistical Learning by Jenny Saffran
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7a74eed8

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Subjective experience challenges traditional science because it remains unclear how neural computations generate the feeling of what it is like to…

Consciousness by Claire Sergent and Frédérique de Vignemont
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0aea8c7d

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🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The visual system tunes itself to the statistics of its input. How do individual experiences differently tune vision? In this work, @bjbalas.bsky.social and I examined how one individual difference—height—changes the visual diet and how this affects perception. 1/

Questions or problems? Let me know or open an issue: github.com/langcog/chi...

As always, thanks to the TalkBank team for their leadership in sharing such great data with the community. The original paper: doi.org/10.3758/s13...

There's also a revised childesr package on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=chi...

The data are now hosted and versioned on Redivis, so you'll need a free account there to download data through childesr.

We've just released a new version of childes-db, my lab's interface to the CHILDES database of child language transcripts. It lets you work with CHILDES data from R through a versioned, reproducible API. A few updates 🧵 childes-db.stanford.edu/

LEVANTE is not designed for group comparisons! New blogpost on what you can and can't conclude when using global data on child development from the LEVANTE project: levante-network.org/levante-is-n...

Philosophers treat skepticism not as stubborn denial, but as a logical trap revealing fundamental tensions in our concepts of knowledge and evidence.

Skepticism by Santiago Echeverri
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.95725785

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Distinguishing between our species and other animals requires balancing subtle quantitative differences with the unique, complex interplay of our…

Uniquely Human Cognition by Daniel B. M. Haun
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2760bd31

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Brain research reveals that our neural systems treat human interaction as a distinct computational process, separate from general reasoning.

Social Cognitive Neuroscience by Rebecca Saxe
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0276fa5e

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The subjective feeling of control often diverges from reality, revealing that our sense of agency is a computational inference rather than a direct…

Sense of Agency by Patrick Haggard
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7b88a436

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Experimentology is free to read and openly licensed for teaching!

📖 experimentology.io/010-samplin...

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