New paper: Validation of the Coffee Knowledge Test for Assessing Expertise in Coffee with Jonas Yde Junge, @icroij.bsky.social, Line Ahm Mielby, and Ulla Kidmose doi.org/10.1111/joss... #OpenAccess

New paper: We find color discrimination and preferences are broadly aligned with the color statistics of natural scenes, but group differences are NOT related to color statistics as predicted under efficient coding frameworks. With Anna Franklin +team and Simeon Floyd doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

New paper: Word formation patterns in the perception domain: A typological study of cross-modal semantic associations @enorcliffe.bsky.social #OA www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

So this happened yesterday. Thrilled and honoured to be elected a fellow of British Academy! Congratulations to all the other fellows! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...

Related languages diverge in their conceptualisation of landscape. Although sharing sensory associations, their emotion associations vary. English speakers sure seem to like anthropogenic features compared to French or German speakers! doi.org/10.1080/0142...

When words can mean anything you want them to mean
@jamiereillycog.bsky.social

Strikingly, we also find smell and taste are RARELY coexpressed in perception verbs contrary to previous suggestions. We suggest this can be explained by their potential for confusability in context.

We find, contrary to claims in the literature, that vision verbs are LEAST likely to extend their meaning to other sensory modalities. This is straightforwardly predicted by theories of communicative need.

@mcxfrank.bsky.socialand I are co-Editors-in-Chief with a fantastic team of Section Editors Frédérique de Vignemont Jim Regh Colin Klein, Evan Kidd, Daniel Haun, Tom Griffiths, Marina Bedny, H. Clark Barrett & Adrian Alsmith. We share the vision for OECS: open, accessible, authoritative.

Excited to announce the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. oecs.mit.edu What you need to know about the mind explained briefly and simply. Free globally. Available 2024. tinyurl.com/oecs-launch