Or this, hopefully now working, OSF link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

If the OSF link isn't working for you, the preprint can also be found here: dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?f...

We find that the visual system's representation of multiple possibilities is selectively disrupted by perceptual load, but not cognitive load, demonstrating that the key processes underlying the perception of possibilities occur before the information reaches high-level cognition!

The key idea (developed with Camden Parker and @violastoermer.bsky.social) was to use amodal completion as a case where the visual system can represent multiple possibilities (possible shapes) and then ask whether this representation is differentially disrupted by perceptual load or cognitive load.

This is joint work with Bryan Gonzalez, Pauline Amary, James Dungan, Brent Strickland, @xphilosopher.bsky.social, and @fierycushman.bsky.social. A huge amount of credit goes out to them!

Totally agree with this, but I'm not hopeful bc it's hard to know what the bounds of that broader space are for the kind of generalizability we care about. @asbear.bsky.social and I tried to make this point here (in response to @talyarkoni.com 's article): drive.google.com/file/d/1LKo5...

In sum, these studies collectively demonstrate that we can attribute or deny knowledge states without evaluating belief states and suggest that knowledge representation is distinct from belief representation and offers a conceptually primitive way to represent others’ minds.