Pleased to share my latest research "Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model" about a glimpsing neural network model the learns visual structure (here, number) in a way that generalises to new visual contents. The model replicates several neural and behavioural hallmarks of numerical cognition.
The world that’s filtered through a sensor<br></br>is more than just a sterile tensor:<br></br>for all the truths in what’s outside,<br></br>the lies en route can’t be denied.<br></br><br></br>You sit behind your brain, I fear,<br></br>and every sense that you hold dear<br></br>is filtered through a lump of fat<br></br>while neuropeptides have a chat.<br></br><br></br>By the time a thing’s in your awareness<br></br>(that sense of conscious being-there-ness)<br></br>the world without’s been warped and twisted<br></br>by worlds within that once existed.<br></br><br></br>The things that you could swear are real<br></br>are mere veneers of what you feel:<br></br>the only truth you’ll ever know<br></br>is writ in what makes ions go –<br></br>and everything you’ve ever seen<br></br>has left a trail of dopamine.<br></br><br></br>Objective truth is nonexistent,<br></br>you’ve but the world that’s most consistent<br></br>with stimuli that came and went.<br></br>Don’t trust the world that’s evident,<br></br>for every rule’s a neural trick<br></br>and life is full of surprises.<br></br>
Bonsoir bonsoir, si vous aimez les chats et que vous trouvez aussi que "L'IA est un peu con", vous allez forcément aimer la conférence #TEDx de Nicolas Rougier, intervenu à #TEDxQuartierLatin !
What's your position regarding consciousness? Broad physicalism (we'll have a scientific explanation one day) or broad anti-physicalism (science can't give a complete account)? Or something else?
Please repost after voting, I'm genuinely curious! 🤔
@ninokadic@philosophy@philosophyofmind The nature of science's relationship with the world prevents it from giving a "complete" account. It cannot be complete because there is always something else we haven't seen yet.
I can't imagine what a scientific explanation would look like, or how we would know that it was correct, but I also have no reason (other than that) to think we won't someday have one.
Everything we know about the physical world is derived from the contents of consciousness; completing the loop and explaining consciousness in terms of the physical world would be cool. :) But I can't sketch out how it would work.
(Where by "consciousness" I mean subjective experience, not easy stuff that can be straightforwardly measured objectively.)
Running tutorials for undergrads on jsPsych this semester. Just made a course blog with screencasts that will be updated weekly this semester. Sharing in case it's useful for others.
Special issue of QJEP to celebrate 50 years of the Baddeley & Hitch working memory model.
Important reminder: Two weeks to go before the deadline for your letter of intent! So there's still time for you to submit a template of your work for inclusion 😃
I'm looking for review papers on the general topic of memory for pictures. I've found some pre 1990s, but haven't found review papers after that...(except Madigan, 2014). Any picture #cognition folks know of some? #cogsci#psychsci#psych#cogpsy
Neuroscientists analyzed the brain activity of 29 volunteers while they listened to Pink Floyd. Then, they assembled auditory spectrograms into a recognizable reproduction of what the patients had heard, making some of the vocals clear. Researchers aimed to restore the musicality of natural speech in patients with neurological...
People who physically respond to music with chills have stronger fiber connections between the auditory cortex and emotional processing areas in the brain.
"Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining. In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they...
Nearly done coding an online #cognition experiment that I'm hoping to pilot today. There are always so many little details to finesse at this stage. Gotta love these tools though! #jspsych#jatos