@enactedmind
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam. Interested in cognition and what it means to be human. So far. I identified potential culprits: Bodies in development, minds enacting, babies being clever but mostly useless at doing things.
Interested in a radically embodied account of how helpless infants become social? Find me at this year's #mindbrainbody symposium in Berlin - Poster Session B, Poster B34 - www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...
Was für eine Katastrophe. Das renommierte, sehr gute Xjazz Festival musste abgesagt werden, weil die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur unfähig ist, die bereits bewilligten Fördergelder rechtzeitig auszuzahlen. Nach Chiallo ist Wedl-Wilson bereits der zweite Totalausfall in diesem Amt.
I think these express the true nature of the DAG more effectively
Is this optional/can it be turned off?
Why are humans so good at social learning? Many theories propose uniquely human cognitive adaptations that provide the foundation for social learning. In this paper, I suggest that a unique embodied developmental trajectory might be a better explanation: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app
Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.
This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.
hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...
Happy to share my first first-author paper, new in Science Advances: Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceAdvancesResearch @zne-uzh.bsky.social @econ.uzh.ch
As body-augmenting technologies become more common, it is important to understand how the brain decides what counts as "the body", and how that changes over time.
My first postdoc paper 🦾 now out in @elife.bsky.social 👇
📺 Watch this space: PhD position in children's collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself to be advertised very soon! The application deadline will be in late March, so get in contact if you want to know more.
📣📣 A recent paper by Kate Hill et al. in JCD:
"The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
"Werewolf!"
"Wolf, where?"
"In the blueberries!"
“In summer, I turn into a wolf.” “You mean you are really dangerous?” “No, I just eat lots of blueberries.”
Maybe I am wolf.
I find studies like this so interesting because they question the normativity that comes with our bodies on the one hand, and on the other hand provide explanations that reach beyond tool use and potentially allow us to explain social behaviour.
This is awesome! I, too, want a third thumb! In the meantime, we can ask others to help us, using our mouths and hands. Can you please pass me the next egg to crack?
ICYMI - part of special issue of @phimisci.bsky.social on Representations in the Neurosciences and AI
cc @tjryan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social
Universitätsprofessur (W2) für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Vielfalt Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers...
Universitätsprofessur (W3) für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Neurolinguistik an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers...
Hot take: the hippocampus isn't actually "evolutionarily ancient" and its not helpful to think of it as such.
The full argument for this take is right here (but you need to scroll down to sections 5-6):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
For the motor segment of the corpus callosum, the right and left ends of the tract showed very similar developmental patterns, maturing around the same time. ✅ 6/n
beautiful plots! & structural changes clearly have implications for the strong changes in electrophysiological activity across development.
one aspect that I find tricky: in the HBN dataset, ~70% of participants have a neurodevelopmental disorder, which is not discussed here.
Nice theoretical paper on animal play. As Tinbergen wrote in The Study of Instinct: exploration (like play) crucial when animals need to learn new things, or refine known behaviors.
(With young roe deer with the zoomies, from yesterday here in Stockholm)
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Our findings align with evidence that deep WM myelinates early in infancy bit.ly/infwm, potentially reducing electrical crosstalk and stabilizing signal transmission. The protracted, hierarchical maturation of superficial tract regions may help fine-tune neural timing. 11/n
I’m building a foundational reading list for our lab (systems & circuit neuroscience, compneuro, modeling, neuromodulators, population coding etc.).
I’d like to crowdsource recommendations.
Which review(s) would you consider mandatory reading for the next generation of researchers?
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
How does development affect the evolutionary process?
Join our symposium at www.evodevoconference26.com
in Glasgow this June. We have a strong lineup of invited speakers, chaired by me and @milocco.bsky.social
Submit your abstract before Thursday! ⏰
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Very interesting results - that fit very well into what I argue for in postnatal dependency doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
A major part of my biggest professional issue with the use of so-called 'AI' by folks in policymaking is articulated below - you may not 'need' all of your skills every day, but you hone them in those every day exercises so that when you really need them, they're available to you.
