Özge Bakay

ozgebakay.bsky.social

09 July 2026 08:05

I'll be joining @jonrbrennan.bsky.social's lab at the University of Michigan as a Postdoctoral Fellow in October! 🎉 We'll work on an NSF-funded project on computational modeling of EEG data. Thanks to all my collaborators, especially my advisors, Dr. @linguistbrian.bsky.social and Dr. Faruk Akkuş!

Kanishka Misra

kanishka.bsky.social

22 October 2025 04:22

If I spill the tea—“Did you know Sue, Max’s gf, was a tennis champ?”—but then if you reply “They’re dating?!” I’d be a bit puzzled, since that’s not the main point! Humans can track what’s ‘at issue’ in conversation. How sensitive are LMs to this distinction? New paper w/ @sangheekim.bsky.social!

Shiva Upadhye

shivaaupadhye.bsky.social

30 July 2025 04:49

How do future plans affect word form & word choice in online production? With @futrell.bsky.social in #Cogsci25, we examine the backward predictability effect & introduce a principled variant of backward planning that preserves info proc dependencies b/w words in the past and future context (1/9)

Jon Brennan

jonrbrennan.bsky.social

26 July 2025 18:32

Be my colleague!! We're hiring in cognitive science and AI as part of a cluster of positions across Linguistics, Psychology, Psychiatry and Philosophy. The Psychology posting is now up; the linguistics job posting will be up soon. apply.interfolio.com/169170

Charley Wu

thecharleywu.bsky.social

13 June 2025 17:11

📢 now out @natrevpsychol.nature.com In a new perspective w/ @davidnagy.bsky.social & @gergoorban.bsky.social, we reconcile a glaring problem in applying rate-distortion theory as a framework for human memory, integrating empirical findings across a host of human memory research 🧵👇