Yes, very nice! Fluent vocal production is motorically complex and requires predictive/pre-conscious loading of motor transformations. What better brain region for that than cerebellum? We've been looking at it in cetaceans... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We dynamically map our motor ouputs to the parameters/constants of whatever sensory input is relevant. That said, I appreciate the focus here on motivation/ecological validity! Definitely explains most of the variance in this type of test I think (aside from prior experience)...

I've never believed the mark mirror test requires a rich representational sense of self. It's about affordances, contingency testing, prior experience, etc. If you wear prism glasses in about an hour or two you can catch a ball. But not because your conscious sense of self has flipped. +

Read almost all her books to my kids when they were like 5-9. This is one of the least fantastical but one of the best.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... this is the actual study link from @sarafreeman.bsky.social

Draft Fantasy VI was as originally envisioned - featured "Detective Joe" and his hard-boiled adventures. I played that one in my head but couldn't finish it.

I was struck when he said Obama's biggest misstep was saying Travyon Martin could have been his son. I'm not super enthusiastic about identity politics, but Obama's meaning was clear and touching. We'd like to be on the mountain top w/ MLK, but racial animus is making that impossible, not Obama 🙄

Why are AIs involved in peer review? I guess I could understand asking for a summary (but I still wouldn't do it, as I get all my best peer review ideas WHILE doing deep reading in the weeds). But on the DECISION making level? Literally zero justification for that.

It's great - not the follow-up to JS&MN that I wanted, but still fantastic. I didn't know until recently that Clarke's writing is limited by health struggles, so it makes sense she's not writing doorstops anymore. Great example of capitalizing on your limitations.

Yes -- a breathing behavior that draws air over the vomeronasal organ (also called Jacobson's), which is an accessory olfactory region on the roof of the mouth in many mammals specialized for detecting pheromones. It's social "smelling" more than "super" smelling though!

Umm, Democratic Socialist, he's not like a Stalinist. Also, I find it a little odd that one very liberal city electing a very liberal mayor is framed as a crisis for an entire party, but the election of unqualified kook after kook after kook in red district after red district is just local politics.