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Graduate students from all countries are welcome! Don’t miss it👇
Want to help shape the future of the Cognitive Science Society? Applications are open for the Student Committee!
Open to current members enrolled in MA or PhD programs (any country 🗺️)
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Open to current members enrolled in MA or PhD programs (any country 🗺️)
Apply by November 14!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/get-involved/
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🚨 LAST CALL 🚨
Applications to become a member of the CogSci Student Committee close Nov 14!
Graduate students from all countries are welcome! Don’t miss it👇
Applications to become a member of the CogSci Student Committee close Nov 14!
Graduate students from all countries are welcome! Don’t miss it👇
Thanks for watching. I just looked at your illusion paper. Excellent work. This piece is very cogsci: belief & transformative experiences & AI
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thanks for watching. I just looked at your illusion paper. Excellent work. This piece is very cogsci: belief & transformative experiences & AI
How to train your brain for abstract or mathematical thinking? www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/com...
From the cogsci community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the cogsci community
www.reddit.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
How to train your brain for abstract or mathematical thinking? www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/com...
Slightly surprised that I heard about this investigation of mathematicians & blackboards from someone other than @mbarany.com.
(Although in fairness, this @sciam.bsky.social piece--and the @pnas.org article it discusses--are more focused on #CogSci than #MathHistory...)
#histSTM #psychology 🗃️📜
(Although in fairness, this @sciam.bsky.social piece--and the @pnas.org article it discusses--are more focused on #CogSci than #MathHistory...)
#histSTM #psychology 🗃️📜
Mathematicians’ Chalkboard Writing Shows When Inspiration Strikes www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
Scientists See ‘Eureka’ Moments in Mathematicians’ Chalkboard Writings
Researchers spot the “tipping point” before mathematicians’ moments of discovery
www.scientificamerican.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Slightly surprised that I heard about this investigation of mathematicians & blackboards from someone other than @mbarany.com.
(Although in fairness, this @sciam.bsky.social piece--and the @pnas.org article it discusses--are more focused on #CogSci than #MathHistory...)
#histSTM #psychology 🗃️📜
(Although in fairness, this @sciam.bsky.social piece--and the @pnas.org article it discusses--are more focused on #CogSci than #MathHistory...)
#histSTM #psychology 🗃️📜
Great piece. I wonder about human ones from cogsci that have led to advances in engineering
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Great piece. I wonder about human ones from cogsci that have led to advances in engineering
tell any interested in UCSD neuro/cogsci/psych to email colorsofthebrain@gmail.com and I'll link them up as best I can!
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
tell any interested in UCSD neuro/cogsci/psych to email colorsofthebrain@gmail.com and I'll link them up as best I can!
Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio
Yeah, "belief fixation" is originally from Peirce, but I share the impression that Fodor injected it into cogsci and current phil mind. (And my vaguer impression is that Quine might be the main bridge from Peirce to Fodor?) But you find the term sprinkled throughout 20th C epistemology and phil mind
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yeah, "belief fixation" is originally from Peirce, but I share the impression that Fodor injected it into cogsci and current phil mind. (And my vaguer impression is that Quine might be the main bridge from Peirce to Fodor?) But you find the term sprinkled throughout 20th C epistemology and phil mind
Title: LLMs show signs of cognitive decline with age (or whatever)
Intro:
[Standard-LLM/CogSci-opening-2025b]
ANYWAY
[actual start of paper]
Intro:
[Standard-LLM/CogSci-opening-2025b]
ANYWAY
[actual start of paper]
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Title: LLMs show signs of cognitive decline with age (or whatever)
Intro:
[Standard-LLM/CogSci-opening-2025b]
ANYWAY
[actual start of paper]
Intro:
[Standard-LLM/CogSci-opening-2025b]
ANYWAY
[actual start of paper]
It's true that this is technical, but isn't cybernetics, it's at the heart of cognitive science. You can split the field in two on this point.
Even so, if educogsciers are into cogsci they should appreciate this point. Cognitivism is representationalist, enactivism and ecological psychology are not.
Even so, if educogsciers are into cogsci they should appreciate this point. Cognitivism is representationalist, enactivism and ecological psychology are not.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's true that this is technical, but isn't cybernetics, it's at the heart of cognitive science. You can split the field in two on this point.
Even so, if educogsciers are into cogsci they should appreciate this point. Cognitivism is representationalist, enactivism and ecological psychology are not.
Even so, if educogsciers are into cogsci they should appreciate this point. Cognitivism is representationalist, enactivism and ecological psychology are not.
Saying that your post rests on false premises isn’t trolling. Again, many of those building the systems and even making the claims (which IMO are far fetched but “intelligence” is fraught) are, in fact, neuroscientists and much of the AI field grew out of neuroscience and even cogsci.
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Saying that your post rests on false premises isn’t trolling. Again, many of those building the systems and even making the claims (which IMO are far fetched but “intelligence” is fraught) are, in fact, neuroscientists and much of the AI field grew out of neuroscience and even cogsci.
honored to have given a plenary address at the Society for Language Development annual symposium titled "Whence insights? The value of delineating human and machine CogSci". It's a synthesis of a few years of thoughts, recently concretized with @aditya-yedetore.bsky.social and @kanishka.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
honored to have given a plenary address at the Society for Language Development annual symposium titled "Whence insights? The value of delineating human and machine CogSci". It's a synthesis of a few years of thoughts, recently concretized with @aditya-yedetore.bsky.social and @kanishka.bsky.social
Curious about the second part - you think the Turing test is important for CogSci, or just generally?
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Curious about the second part - you think the Turing test is important for CogSci, or just generally?
1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
This list is remarkable: Most cited philosophers of mind and cogsci (with Google Scholar pages):
Andy Clark (Sussex): 68,900
David Chalmers (NYU): 68,300
Evan Thompson (British Columbia): 54,700
Shaun Gallagher (Memphis): 52,700
Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen): 36,200
leiterreports.com/2025/11/06/m...
Andy Clark (Sussex): 68,900
David Chalmers (NYU): 68,300
Evan Thompson (British Columbia): 54,700
Shaun Gallagher (Memphis): 52,700
Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen): 36,200
leiterreports.com/2025/11/06/m...
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This list is remarkable: Most cited philosophers of mind and cogsci (with Google Scholar pages):
Andy Clark (Sussex): 68,900
David Chalmers (NYU): 68,300
Evan Thompson (British Columbia): 54,700
Shaun Gallagher (Memphis): 52,700
Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen): 36,200
leiterreports.com/2025/11/06/m...
Andy Clark (Sussex): 68,900
David Chalmers (NYU): 68,300
Evan Thompson (British Columbia): 54,700
Shaun Gallagher (Memphis): 52,700
Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen): 36,200
leiterreports.com/2025/11/06/m...
Cogsci peeps! This is a great opportunity! @sineadwilliamson.bsky.social is a great mentor and scientist, along with a wonderful team :)
📢 We’re looking for a researcher in in cogsci, neuroscience, linguistics, or related disciplines to work with us at Apple Machine Learning Research! We're hiring for a one-year interdisciplinary AIML Resident to work on understanding reasoning and decision making in LLMs. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Cogsci peeps! This is a great opportunity! @sineadwilliamson.bsky.social is a great mentor and scientist, along with a wonderful team :)
📢 We’re looking for a researcher in in cogsci, neuroscience, linguistics, or related disciplines to work with us at Apple Machine Learning Research! We're hiring for a one-year interdisciplinary AIML Resident to work on understanding reasoning and decision making in LLMs. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
📢 We’re looking for a researcher in in cogsci, neuroscience, linguistics, or related disciplines to work with us at Apple Machine Learning Research! We're hiring for a one-year interdisciplinary AIML Resident to work on understanding reasoning and decision making in LLMs. 🧵
Aha moments. It opens not with an anecdote but a puzzler.
www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...
Interesting writer was at U Chicago for (checks list) neuroscience, psychology, philosophy. Now at Irvine for cogsci.
norabradford.com/about/
@jepaco.bsky.social @geoffbrock.bsky.social
www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...
Interesting writer was at U Chicago for (checks list) neuroscience, psychology, philosophy. Now at Irvine for cogsci.
norabradford.com/about/
@jepaco.bsky.social @geoffbrock.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Aha moments. It opens not with an anecdote but a puzzler.
www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...
Interesting writer was at U Chicago for (checks list) neuroscience, psychology, philosophy. Now at Irvine for cogsci.
norabradford.com/about/
@jepaco.bsky.social @geoffbrock.bsky.social
www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...
Interesting writer was at U Chicago for (checks list) neuroscience, psychology, philosophy. Now at Irvine for cogsci.
norabradford.com/about/
@jepaco.bsky.social @geoffbrock.bsky.social
Delighted to make a summary of this EXCELLENT book - thought-provoking and extremely useful, and one of the BEST chapters about 'How Do We Learn' that I have read. Thanks @drcastelino.bsky.social
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Delighted to make a summary of this EXCELLENT book - thought-provoking and extremely useful, and one of the BEST chapters about 'How Do We Learn' that I have read. Thanks @drcastelino.bsky.social
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
Summary pdfs here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...
this really sucks. bioRxiv represents so much improvement in biomedical publishing, including in cogsci where I work. a shame to see them flushing that reputation down the toilet
there are lots of other preprint servers out there (including the original arxiv.org) - ppl can vote with their feet
there are lots of other preprint servers out there (including the original arxiv.org) - ppl can vote with their feet
arXiv.org e-Print archive
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
this really sucks. bioRxiv represents so much improvement in biomedical publishing, including in cogsci where I work. a shame to see them flushing that reputation down the toilet
there are lots of other preprint servers out there (including the original arxiv.org) - ppl can vote with their feet
there are lots of other preprint servers out there (including the original arxiv.org) - ppl can vote with their feet
Indeed. My favourite therapist was always up on the latest cogsci theory and mind-body connection stuff. Sometimes we'd nerd out about new therapies during my sessions.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Indeed. My favourite therapist was always up on the latest cogsci theory and mind-body connection stuff. Sometimes we'd nerd out about new therapies during my sessions.
most discourse around AI is so so bad 😢 folks seem utterly unable to separate the politics (highly problematic!) from the social impacts (good reason to think net negative in the short term) from the science (utterly Transformative. Biggest thing in cogsci probably ever)
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
most discourse around AI is so so bad 😢 folks seem utterly unable to separate the politics (highly problematic!) from the social impacts (good reason to think net negative in the short term) from the science (utterly Transformative. Biggest thing in cogsci probably ever)
Philosopher and cognitive scientist Brian Cantwell Smith passed away in September (I am late in hearing about it). The Faculty of Information at @utoronto.ca, where he served as Dean from 2003 to 2008, posted this obituary: #philosophy #cogsci
ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
Obituary: Professor Emeritus and former Dean Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 – 2025) - Faculty of Information
The Faculty of Information is deeply saddened to share that Professor Emeritus and former Dean Brian Cantwell Smith passed away on September 6, 2025, shortly after his retirement. A visionary scholar,...
ischool.utoronto.ca
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Philosopher and cognitive scientist Brian Cantwell Smith passed away in September (I am late in hearing about it). The Faculty of Information at @utoronto.ca, where he served as Dean from 2003 to 2008, posted this obituary: #philosophy #cogsci
ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
What helps us stick to our goals and stay in sync with others?
In this post from the CogSci Unpacked series, Andrea Kaufmann, Martina Fanghella, and John Mitchel distill key ideas from their recently published paper on commitment, control, and motivation.
cognitivesciencesociety.org/what-keeps-u...
In this post from the CogSci Unpacked series, Andrea Kaufmann, Martina Fanghella, and John Mitchel distill key ideas from their recently published paper on commitment, control, and motivation.
cognitivesciencesociety.org/what-keeps-u...
What Keeps Us Committed—Alone and Together - Cognitive Science Society
Welcome to CogSci Unpacked, an exciting blog series dedicated to summarizing academic papers from the Cognitive Science, a CSS Journal. Our goal is to bridge the gap between academia and the broader p...
cognitivesciencesociety.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What helps us stick to our goals and stay in sync with others?
In this post from the CogSci Unpacked series, Andrea Kaufmann, Martina Fanghella, and John Mitchel distill key ideas from their recently published paper on commitment, control, and motivation.
cognitivesciencesociety.org/what-keeps-u...
In this post from the CogSci Unpacked series, Andrea Kaufmann, Martina Fanghella, and John Mitchel distill key ideas from their recently published paper on commitment, control, and motivation.
cognitivesciencesociety.org/what-keeps-u...
Worth noting that benchmarks in the pre-chatgpt days used to be primarily based on results from disciplines like linguistics (or cogsci more broadly), whereas many of the later benchmarks are based on task performance (much more ad adjacent, no construct validity to be found anyway, etc)
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Worth noting that benchmarks in the pre-chatgpt days used to be primarily based on results from disciplines like linguistics (or cogsci more broadly), whereas many of the later benchmarks are based on task performance (much more ad adjacent, no construct validity to be found anyway, etc)