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New preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2309.17363) with incredible PNI second year co-first author, Declan Campbell! In this work, we show how ANNs can yield human behavior on abstract processing of geometric stimuli, providing an alternative to symbolic LoT models in this domain. [1/n]

Test your math knowledge! Our new experiment evaluates your knowledge of the math vocabulary in English. Click on the link below, the test only takes about 15 minutes. Thank you for your participation! neurospin-data.cea.fr/exp/mathssim-en

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New manuscript from the lab! What is the neural code for reading? Through simulations of convolutional neural networks, we propose a new hypothesis on how, in literate brains, neurons encode written letters and their relative positions within the word. arxiv.org/abs/2403.06159

New paper from the lab on compositionality, just out in Cell Reports : “Tracking the neural codes for words and phrases during semantic composition, working memory storage and retrieval” Available in open access: cell.com/cell-reports/f… A thread (1/n)

Every other lab meeting, when I'm confused thanks to my poor mouse neuroanatomy knowledge: wait, the oiah alosias region is involved in fine grained sturbly control?

Is a low-level associative learning strategy sufficient to encode sparse community network? In our new paper out in the Journal of Neuroscience, we argue that yes, see how in this thread! ▶️jneurosci.org/content/44/14/…

Come work with us! Looking for a 👉PhD student interested in finding out what makes human cognition special, studying symbolic thought, compositionality, behaviour &🧠Paul Muhle-Karbe Sarah Beck School of Psychology, University of Birmingham The Centre for Human Brain Health Lab meetings in 🌳👇 reach out by 24/5 more in🧵Please RT! 1/n

Let’s talk *c o m p o s i t i o n a l i t y * 🧵 Before #CogSci2024 CogSci Society and our workshop on compositionality in brains, minds, and machines, join us next week on Wed 26 June for 👉a special online session Compositionality in Maths & Nonlinguistic Reasoning 👈 1/n

How do we infer perceptual absences? Do beliefs about perception play a role in such inferences? And how does it all relate to cellist Natalia Gutman’s career decisions? Find answers in our new preprint with Rani Moran and Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵

#Workshop at #CogSci2024 Compositionality in Minds, Brains and Machines: A unifying goal that cuts across Cognitive Sciences Organisers: Barbara Pomiechowska 🇪🇺, Rachel Dudley, Lio Wong, and Mathias Sablé-Meyer Visit …hop-compositionality-cogsci-2024.info to learn about the program, speakers and more!

Absolutely thrilled to share the program of our #CogSci2024 CogSci Society workshop 👉 doors open @ 8:30 👉 welcome @ 8:45 👉 talks++ @ 9:00 Brenden Lake Liina Pylkkanen AKJagadish Isabelle Dautriche @FoscaAR Mohamady El-Gaby HWang Li-Ping Wang Noémi Éltető KEllis Mathias Sablé-Meyer LWong School of Psychology, University of Birmingham 1/2

Ahead of the event, brush up on Compositionality by watching replays of our online session from a month ago, featuring Akshita Srinivasan, Stephen Ferrigno, Lorenzo Ciccione, Théo Morfoisse and Paul Muhle-Karbe! Find the links on …hop-compositionality-cogsci-2024.info

The Many Faces of Bayesian Moons, 2024 (or maybe, "Having Fun With Stimuli")

1/🧵How early do children grasp mathematical patterns? Our latest study with Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social, Marie Lubineau and Théo Morfoisse explores how young children’s drawings reveal their understanding of geometric patterns—from simple lines to complex curves like sinusoids and exponentials

Help friends and colleagues better understand how humans process language! Good Old Fashion Psycho-Linguistics (GOFPL) with a fun hypothesis, but we promise there will be LLMs in the paper eventually 🤖 Participate: neurospin-data.cea.fr/exp/jabber/ Share around to native English speakers!

New ARC-AGI paper ARC Prize w/ fantastic collaborators Wen-Ding Li @ ICLR'25 Keya Hu Zenna Tavares evanthebouncy Basis For few-shot learning: better to construct a symbolic hypothesis/program, or have a neural net do it all, ala in-context learning? cs.cornell.edu/~ellisk/docume…

“Where was I again?” Our study published today nature.com/articles/s4158… reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:

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