Ira Hyman

irahyman.bsky.social

16 October 2026 20:00

Willing to bet they try to replicate without the thoughtfulness of the original. Loftus and Palmer conducted a first study seeing which verbs affected speed estimates. You need t redo rather than assuming it works the same now.

Joey Saito

jsaito25.bsky.social

12 October 2026 04:24

Now out in Psychophysiology! We show that ppl still use exemplar-specific representations to search, even when category-level features are 'good enough'. w/ Ryan Williams, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, + Susanne Ferber doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

Alish Dipani

alishdipani.bsky.social

03 October 2026 01:48

Finding a "face neuron" in an ANN doesn't mean it encodes faces like we do. 🧵 In my first project with @apurvaratan.bsky.social, we show that category selectivity in ANNs ≠ category selectivity in brains. Details in thread + preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Feedback or questions welcome!

Andrey Chetverikov

achetverikov.bsky.social

02 October 2026 14:51

Some months ago, I wrote a skeptical reply to a commentary on bots in online studies in PNAS, arguing that no evidence yet exists for such bots. Together with the authors of the original commentary, we now show that bots can pass (almost?) all online cognitive studies with human-like performance 1/n

Alex Holcombe

alexh.bsky.social

21 September 2026 01:01

If we have to call them Type 1 / 2 instead of false positive and false negative, use this mnemonic: the boy who cried wolf caused both Type I & Il errors, in that order.