A guitarist performing classic 90's Autechre electronic music. I'm hearing not just a cover but something more and different from the original track. Delightful and unexpected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-9...
Iโm thrilled to announce the release of #Simbrain 4, which I have been working on for over 10 years! For the last five of those years I have met almost every weeknight with Yulin Li and we have pair-programmed our way through the entire app, adding hundreds of new features.
@braininspired.bsky.social talks to @dewitmm.bsky.social, Luis Favela and @diovicen.bsky.social about the trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, how an organismโs interactions with its environment explains perception and action.
#neuroskyence
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Really enjoyed this discussion on Brain Inspired. We talk about how EP is currently showing up in the mainstream, and how it might be done better. We also talk about neuro developments within the ecological community itself. Thanks for leading us through it, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social!
Do neuroscientists know what "affordance" actually means?
(it seems perhaps not)
Luis, Vicente, and Matthieu @dewitmm.bsky.social on neuroscience trying to adopt ecological psychology for an "ecological neuroscience"
braininspired.co/podcast/232/
Luis Favela, @dewitmm.bsky.social, and yours truly talked to @braininspired.bsky.social about ecological neuroscience. Among other things, we tried to comment on how to make "affordances" and "ecological information" helpful for neuroscientists. Check it out!
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You could also look into education of intention, for example Jacobs, D. M., & Michaels, C. F. (2007). Direct Learning. Ecological Psychology, 19(4), 321โ349
Thanks! The cue concept is rejected in the ecological theoretical framework. For learning from an ecological perspective (discovering new affordances), look up concepts like attunement, education of attention, calibration. Sensorimotor contingencies would provide a different but related angle.
What a nice surprise that it is available early! I have placed my order and can't wait to start reading...
New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now.
cup.columbia.edu/book/intertw...
The call for abstracts for ICPA 2026 in Omaha is open and includes an intriguing idea for a book icpa2026omaha.com/schedule
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"High-resolution activity maps of PFC did NOT align with cytoarchitecturally defined subregions."
Key tenet in neuroscience is that cytoarchitectonic boundaries correspond to functional ones.
NB: study in the mouse
#neuroskyence
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The real question is whether Lilliputian mushrooms make you hallucinate tiny people, or allow you to see the tiny people that we ordinarily can't perceive
New paper, out now! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
The second SPAN program just dropped and its amazing!! Consider submitting a project proposal. ๐ฅณ
A funded PhD position in philosophy of science: AI in scientific problem solving. At @helsinki.fi @tint-philosophy.bsky.social #philsci jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
Early career people:
We have funding to subsidize travel to the conference.
Call for abstracts for the first conference of our new Center for Humanities and Technology. Please share!
uchumanitiestech.org/2026-confere...
Clear out toys now!
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
If you want to implement an AI tutor, you need to study itโs performance in naturalistic settings with the kinds of context windows that student learners will provide. You canโt begin with a well formulated question about a single topic.
Students donโt know how to formulate questions well at first.
Symposium: Neurocognitive Functions ofย Mind
Join us this week for a symposium on the new book, Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind, edited by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini!
In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, Vincente Raja suggests that neuroscientists should pay more attention to the principles of Gibsonian ecological psychology, such as affordances, ecological information and resonance.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
Book cover of โWhat Is Life? Revistedโ by Daniel J. Nicholson, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckelโs illustrations of marine organismsโradial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.
New Element in the Philosophy of Biology seriesโfree to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrรถdingerโs motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the bookโs lasting impact on cell & molecular biology๐ www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Wow! If this holds up, it will be a triumph of science (i.e., of many hundreds of dedicated scientists over decades) over a devastating disease.
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
I am super excited to be giving my talk "Characterizing neural function in ecological neuroscience" at the inaugural Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience conference @socphilneuro.bsky.social in St. Louis in May! Check out the incredible line-up of speakers and symposia: www.philandneuro.com
While Bluesky as a social network isn't quite the same as Facebook and Instagram, it works well enough for me while I wait for replacement services offered by companies other than Meta.
(7/9)
... If they are not, I message them on Whatsapp and send along a link to Signal, inviting them to join me there. I then continue to chat with them via Whatsapp for as long as needed.
(6/9)
