Humans are sensitive to many different types of social interactions, but it has been difficult to isolate these differences in the human brain

In this new preprint @yuanfangzhao.bsky.social w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social applied data-driven methods to two fMRI video datasets to address this

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Alternative title: "LLMs don't have ears (or eyes)"

What do humans and machines miss out on when processing language as purely written text, without all the embodied audiovisual richness that scaffolds language in daily human contexts?

Very proud of this elegant work from @tommybotch.bsky.social

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

I'm incredibly honored to be a recipient of this year's Glushko Prize. I've looked up to so many past winners over the years, so it's surreal to be getting one myself. Thanks to Bob Glushko and the prize committee, as well as to my advisor Brian Scholl and Sam McDougle for their letters of support.

I am excited to share our recent preprint and the last paper of my PhD! Here, @imelizabeth.bsky.social, @lisik.bsky.social, Mick Bonner, and I investigate the spatiotemporal hierarchy of social interactions in the lateral visual stream using EEG-fMRI.

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#CogSci #EEG

I still can't believe this! I'm deeply grateful to Bob Glushko and to @cogscisociety.bsky.social for this award. Huge thanks to my advisors @sabinehunnius.bsky.social and @neuroecologylab.bsky.social, and to many more collaborators, all the work in my thesis would have been impossible without them!

It is truly an honor to be recognized as a Glushko prize winner among all these incredible scientists. Thank you to the prize committee and to my PhD advisors @lisik.bsky.social and Mick Bonner.

New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**

with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.

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New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs”
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n

We wrote a paper on how we think language interacts with Theory of Mind, why the connection is tricky to find experimentally, and what this means for pragmatics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I promised to write about my thoughts on the status of the field of neuroAI, some of the big challenges we are facing, and the approaches we are taking to address them. This is super selective on the topic of finding a good model but in my view it affects the field as a whole. Here we go. 🧵

Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately Predict Human AND Macaque Visual Brain Activity
Colin Conwell, @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social, Akshay Vivek Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken, @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social, @jacob-prince.bsky.social, George Alvarez, @taliakonkle.bsky.social and Marge Livingstone

This new article perfectly concludes my time & lessons in Jim’s lab.@JamesJDiCarlo and I propose +review SMART models of object recognition
✅ Sensory computable
✅ Mechanistic
✅ Anatomically Referenced
✅ Testable
Coming in Annual Reviews 2024
Preprint: bit.ly/3tk7u8D

First post here - sharing that our paper on infants' representation of third-party helping interactions is now published (OA) at the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology! www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....

I am super excited to share our preprint "Early neural development of social perception: evidence from voxel-wise encoding in young children and adults" with Angira Shirahatti and @lisik.bsky.social !! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our paper "Hierarchical organization of social action features in the lateral visual stream" led by @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social with Mick Bonner is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In our new paper out today at Trends in Cognitive Science, @lisik.bsky.social and I argue that social interaction perception is a visual process–computed by the visual system. (1/3)

tinyurl.com/nhh2dhx

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