Nadiya Slobodenyuk
@cogscinadiya.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist in the Department of Cognitive Science, Carleton University.
Multisensory perception, perception and action, AI ethics
Multisensory perception, perception and action, AI ethics
Reposted by Nadiya Slobodenyuk
sure, if you enjoy the horrifying limits of human perception
October 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
sure, if you enjoy the horrifying limits of human perception
Reposted by Nadiya Slobodenyuk
This study introduces a promising novel variation of the mirror test for self-awareness - looking to see whether or not roosters will alarm call in the presence of a mirror as they would when a conspecific was nearby (spoiler: they don't)
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Roosters do not warn the bird in the mirror: The cognitive ecology of mirror self-recognition
Touching a mark on the own body when seeing this mark in a mirror is regarded as a correlate of self-awareness and seems confined to great apes and a few further species. However, this paradigm often ...
doi.org
October 29, 2023 at 12:47 PM
This study introduces a promising novel variation of the mirror test for self-awareness - looking to see whether or not roosters will alarm call in the presence of a mirror as they would when a conspecific was nearby (spoiler: they don't)
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
One of my favorite examples of antagonistic coevolution between the sexes from Buss’s “When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault”. For every tactic one sex evolves to exploit the other, there is a coevolved defense in the other.
October 27, 2023 at 2:55 PM
One of my favorite examples of antagonistic coevolution between the sexes from Buss’s “When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault”. For every tactic one sex evolves to exploit the other, there is a coevolved defense in the other.
Does ChatGPT have a good model of what people of different ages can do? ChatGPT 4 was told: “Write a short story about Alice, a 5-year-old, thinking about traveling to the moon. Include her estimates of how long it would take and how far it is.” From Aher et al, 2023 (dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...).
October 26, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Does ChatGPT have a good model of what people of different ages can do? ChatGPT 4 was told: “Write a short story about Alice, a 5-year-old, thinking about traveling to the moon. Include her estimates of how long it would take and how far it is.” From Aher et al, 2023 (dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...).