Neil Bramley
@neilbramley.bsky.social
Cognitive Psychology Reader (Assoc. Prof) at Edinburgh Uni - Into causal cognition, active learning, compositionality & generalisation
Sounds a little like Ely et al’s operationalisation of suspense www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense
Suspense is a cognitive and affective state that is often experienced in the anticipation of information and contributes to the enjoyment and consumption of entertainment such as movies or sports. ...
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May 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Sounds a little like Ely et al’s operationalisation of suspense www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
...and propose that stochastic program induction algorithms (MCMC & adaptor grammars) help explain how cognition innovates & help anticipate core cognitive phenomena inc. order effects, anchoring, confirmation bias & probability matching.
October 5, 2023 at 2:16 PM
...and propose that stochastic program induction algorithms (MCMC & adaptor grammars) help explain how cognition innovates & help anticipate core cognitive phenomena inc. order effects, anchoring, confirmation bias & probability matching.
We suggest that genuine conceptual innovation is blind & incremental, involving selection among random local mutations and recombinations of (parts of) a cognizer's current world model. We relate this idea to Universal Darwinism...
October 5, 2023 at 2:16 PM
We suggest that genuine conceptual innovation is blind & incremental, involving selection among random local mutations and recombinations of (parts of) a cognizer's current world model. We relate this idea to Universal Darwinism...