Piggy backing on this great event to note intellectual link. I'm speaking @ symposium (Fri) VSS Meeting on attention, building on my 2023 phiVIS talk: (a) we know what attention is (b) there is no internal/external attention distinction & (c) we can unite different kinds of attention

Gratified for the packed room VSS Meeting session on "Attention: Accept, Reject or Major Revisions". Lots of strong opinions and debate, but never enough time! I'm often at a table in the courtyard. Come by, chat and debate some more! #vss2024

Night run #vss2024

Just overheard a group of VSSers talking about the state of cog neuro on the beach. Kripke, Davidson and DiCarlo in the same breath. Sounded like a fun and interesting conversation. 👍 #vss2024

What you see when you get lost in great conversation and stumble to bed in moonlight at 2am. Great VSS Meeting #vss2024

I had a lot of fun doing chatting about the philosophy of attention with Edouard Machery. Have a listen!

If you're a cognitive scientist in the US who likes philosophy, you might enjoy reading this: attention, intention, agency, working memory, reasoning, bias, introspection. Not cheap (sorry, not my choice), but it's on a decent discount (35%) @ Amazon amazon.com/dp/0192866893?…

A philosopher, an art historian, and a neuroscientist walk into the The Italian Academy ... (with David Freedberg, Jackie Gottlieb and Raphael Rosenberg) youtube.com/watch?v=7gq7Dt…

New results!! Congratulations to @_ramanujans and Martyna Czarnik on their tour de force study that revealed a simple but remarkably flexible mechanism explaining how we use visual information in all sorts of ways. 🧵1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you want a short introduction to attention (or want to pass it on to your students), please have a look at the articles on attention and much else at the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. More articles are forthcoming. Attention oecs.mit.edu/pub/xdqgwrkq

Read this 'Editorial: Symposoium on Movements of the Mind by Wayne Wu (Wayne Wu)' by Carlos Montemayor Carlos Montemayor in the Journal of Consciousness Studies now. 🔗Subscribe here: imprint.co.uk/product/jcs/ 📧Sign up to the JCS newsletter: mailchi.mp/imprint/newsle…

This is meant to be engaging for those interested in the philosophy of attention but also conceptual work in the empirical theory of attention. Coming soon! routledge.com/Attention/Wu/p…

Cog sci folks: Does anyone have a copy of Kahneman's "Attention and Effort" that they wouldn't mind parting with & selling to me? NB: people in the used book world are selling it as a collectors item. I don't think it is. Just want a working copy.

Excited about this new paper! Suppose you lost half a field of view, or color vision, would you notice? In a new paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, we show that you probably wouldn’t! You can find out more about those striking failures of visual metacognition here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jsFQ4sIRvTB….

A random thought on hiring: I would have thought a good rule of thumb is don't hire someone when all the letters of recommendation from previous coworkers are: "ABSOLUTELY DO NOT hire this guy!”.