In Nijmegen to celebrate the legacy of the Neurobiology of Language Department and honor Peter Hagoort as he concludes his tenure as Max Planck director 🎓🧠🗣️ ⁦Het Talige Brein⁩ ⁦MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics⁩

Come and join us for an excellent lineup of keynotes and talks at SALC9 Trondheim in June Giosuè Baggio Jenny Saffran Riitta Salmelin Peter Gärdenfors Dr. Inge-Marie Eigsti Dr. Jim Magnuson, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

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10 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!!!!
MATH IN COMP NEURO SUMMER CAMP!!!
AMAZING, IN NORWAY AND FUN!!!
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“He demonstrated the roots of human nature in our closest living relatives through his studies of conflict resolution, reconciliation, cooperation, empathy, fairness, morality, social learning and culture in chimpanzees, bonobos and capuchin monkeys.”

Por qué el creciente absentismo en las aulas universitarias sí es un problema

“Individuals who trust AI tools to overcome their own cognitive limitations become susceptible to illusions of understanding (…) The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less.” 🎯

You’re reading a big-picture pop book and everything sounds deep, coherent and clever. Then come three sentences about your field and it’s total bunk. What’s the likelihood that everything else you’ve read is bunk too? The deceived expert’s oblique anticlimatic insight.

🚨 Vacancy for Lecturer in Cognitive Science and AI at Radboud University @[email protected] Radboud AI.

Deadline for application: 28 April

(Please RT 🔃 for wider reach 🙏)

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“Lexical“ can mean different things, and we can distinguish at least four different senses: 'relating to (i) word-forms, (ii) lexemes, (iii) the inventorium (= the idiosyncratic forms and constructions), and (iv) the mental lexicon (or “mentalicon”)'. 1/6 ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007880

“Unlike memories, unlike humans, unlike most cells in the body, the proteins only last a little while (…) in a single cell, every 24 hours, we need at least 250 million proteins just to keep the neuron at status quo.” The Remarkable Neuron: Erin Schuman

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When do we stop falling for AI hype and wasting resources? We know these systems fundamentally cannot scale functionally without consuming astronomical resources. Can we just stop and start thinking carefully for ourselves again?

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🚨 Vacancy Aarhus University : Associate or Full Professor of Cognitive Science and/or Computational Linguistics international.au.dk/about/profile/… (Please RT for wider reach 🙏)

Det er flott å skape komfortable miljøer på skolen og på jobben, men vi i Norge har gått for langt når det gjelder å skåne folk, spesielt barn, fra kognitiv innsats. Vi har blitt kognitivt late! 🧠🦥 Hva kan vi gjøre for å snu denne trenden? Adresseavisen
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Video’s up. Starting around 1:34 my case that current conversational AI is too compliant to be intelligent. Surely a ‘no shit’ moment for those in the know, but fun to show with a little semantics/pragmatics!

Takk Inger, Håvard & Co. NTNU UB for dagen!

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New work in Computational Brain & Behavior w/ Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social & Nancy Abigail Nuñez: we explore notions of plausibility in cognitive science and make the case for the need for formal grounding
Thanks Iris van Rooij 💭, Berna Devezer & Co. for organising a wonderful workshop on good theory back in 2022 lorentzcenter.nl/what-makes-a-g…

AI-day 26/1, Realfagbygget library NTNU BRAIN NTNU Norwegian Open AI Lab Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation ExcitedSFU
I’ll discuss the trade-off between accuracy and compliance with user input in current conversational AI, using presupposition as an example #linguistics
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