Favio Dauría
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Favio Dauría
@faviodauria.bsky.social
A pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas
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@sciam.bsky.social has a new special edition entitled The Conscious Brain (www.scientificamerican.com/issue/specia...). It contains our feature article "The Brain Science of Elusive 'Aha moments'" from the March 2025 issue which you can read here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Scientific American Volume 34, Issue 3s
"The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’", "The Quest to Build a Truly Intelligent Machine Helps Us Learn about Our Own Intelligence", "Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences" and more
www.scientificamerican.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon. "This is very early evidence of a preacher weaving pop culture into a sermon to keep his audience hooked." It also resolves a long-standing Chaucerian mystery. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon
“This is very early evidence of a preacher weaving pop culture into a sermon to keep his audience hooked.”…
arstechnica.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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My latest installment of brain state modeling in creativity is out @ Psychophysiology! We found generating novel metaphors is associated with widespread alpha-band synchronization early on in ideation and, paradoxically, alpha-desynch right before response. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
Verbal creativity in generating novel metaphors is widely recognized, but its electrophysiological basis has not been investigated. By applying brain state analysis to EEG data, we identify oscillato...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Awesome new interview on the decades-long quest to understand neurobiological + genetic risk factors for severe mental illness, with Prof Carrie Bearden, shared by @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social
genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
February 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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I could not be more thrilled! 🧠 That the award is named in Lila Gleitman's honor makes it all the more meaningful. Thanks to the prize committee and to my lab @ldm-nyu.bsky.social, my colleagues, my mentors, and the NSF for their support. Thanks especially to all the infant and child participants! 👶
Huge congratulations to @moiradillon.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 Lila R. Gleitman Prize!

She’s a Ph.D from @harvard.edu and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at @nyu.edu.

Learn about all her career and academic achievements at cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/

#GleitmanPrize
March 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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'For all their benefits, funding for [public] libraries is never a priority, trumped by the more urgent demands of healthcare and schools. And yet, properly resourced, they can help alleviate the pressures on both'. Guardian editorial key point after our chat www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on public libraries: these vital spaces provide much more than books | Editorial
Editorial: Offering everything from coding clubs to company, they are more essential than ever as other services vanish
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2024 at 5:55 AM