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James Strachan

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Cognitive scientist interested in joint action, learning, and culture. Researcher at Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique in Rabat, Morocco

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Better late than never to announce that I have now moved to take up a one-year postdoc position at the Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique #UM6P in Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦

Very excited to get started on this new chapter

13.01.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans - Nature Human Behaviour At the core of what defines us as humans is the concept of theory of mind: the ability to track other people’s mental states. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has...

New paper out now in Nature Human Behaviour

We administered a range of standard Theory of Mind tests to LLMs and humans in order to compare how models performed at tests of social reasoning

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

21.05.2024 08:43 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn
and all my other wonderful co-authors!
Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

29.02.2024 10:27 👍 20 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2

Check out our paper (thread below) on Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination in Perspectives on Psychological Science

09.01.2024 14:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0