The origin of great ape gestural forms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Ukraine should fire every ATACMS they have at Russian air bases and call America and Russia’s bluff in one go. Saves Ukrainian lives and ends Russian red lines once and for all.

Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Intriguing. Authors: "16 features contributed to variance" of calls, but "no specific subset...encodes receiver’s identity." Nice vocal learning but "accepted" social basis of language is not accepted here! These calls are not digital and proto-words should be digital/iconic.

Drones are a novel kind of asymmetric warfare: it is much cheaper to damage/destroy key infrastructure then to build/rebuild it. One hopes Ukrainian drones could make continuance of Putin's War so costly to Russian infrastructure that Russians go home. Take more Russian land too.

Donald M. O'Malley I think there is more and more evidence (particularly from fMRI) that semantics are processed in a more wide-spread network, but I would be careful as describing this as a definite!

Embod theory derives from Action Perception Circuits: APCs being peripheral/body eventually connect w/ other minds. But neocortical ops are CENTRAL based on evolved, innate understanding of physical world. Stout writes of symbol grounding but Semantics Come from Experience #SCFE

2/2: knowledge/SCFE comes from stored experiences, so: Semantics <=> Lang. <=> APCs. so w/ bodies/embods/APCs we are further removed from cognition than language is (ala Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦). Our 1000-Dimensional subconsc./semantic core needs no body. Embod theory makes 0 sense to me

Bit of a straw man... We and many others have found this and even noted on Twits. No reason to ever inject 10^13 AAV directly into brain. Dilute down to low-mid 10^12 for good expression and minimal toxicity.

Not really worth of your efforts on behalf of Ukraine. Punching down does not help your cause. You should delete this tweet.

Reminds a bit of the nuclear-amplification calcium artifacts of the 1990's where elevated "nuclear calcium" turned out to be pure calibration artifacts. But THESE are actual calcium waves! BUT artifactually generated! Great collaborative effort by serious scientists.

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When Abstract Becomes Concrete: Naturalistic Encoding of Concepts in the Brain 🎞️👀💬🧠: Yet more reasons to consider context, dynamics, & the whole brain in our understanding of the neurobiology of language. Amazing & beautiful work Viktor Kewenig. 👏🥂 elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Russia's endless waves of impoverished meat pouring into Ukraine will soon be matched by unmanned armored robot tech from a civilized and free people. More every day..

Quite a collection! Am reading about 1st three years of Exec Function development to see how that may relate to linguistic dev. Was only avail via my university subscription.

Retina prolly will be first part of the mammalian CNS that we (one day) will fully understand its neural operations. Cool tidbit: the motion-detecting starburst amacrine cells look more or less identical (and spectacular) across vertebrates! Thx to Richard Masland, many others.

If you in Top 10% of wealth-holders in the US, your avg. net wealth is approx. $2.2 million. . But to be in the Top 1%, your avg. wealth = $11 million. 11 mill x 3 million people (top 1%) = 33 trillion dollars! = current national debt (34 T. at present) . need to pay more now!

Happy to have an article out in Biolinguistics today on LLMs and the creative aspect of (human) language use. My thanks to @ElliotMurphy91 for some early encouragement on this! (And Mark Baker and Stephen Pulman who are, fortunately for them, X-less.) doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

"little secret"? Is he referring to his manhood?