Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠

Arrival is one of my favorite movies! It raises so many interested questions about language, culture, biology, and the mind. So I made a video about it! Check it out! 👇 Alien Linguistics — The Science of Arrival youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3I?si… via @YouTube

RT @BradyRTRoberts: New work with Muhan Yan and @WilmaBainbridge is now out in Neuropsychologia! We show that people with #aphantasia have…

Jurassic Park is actually a cautionary tale about the dangers of automation

Is the original study that apparently failed replication three times!) true? I don't know, maybe. But if the only benefit to handwriting your notes is that you get a certain kind of brain activity that doesn't actually make you any better at exams, what the hell is the point

So no, the neural data is not a more direct way of assessing whether handwriting (or anything else!) actually improves your memory. It's still just measuring task performance, but worse and with extra steps!

This study failed to replicate but we know it's true because of the neural data? No. Here's a question: how do we know that all that neural activation has anything to do with improved memory encoding or retrieval? By correlating brain responses to accuracy in memory tasks!

RT @sparuniisc: Please circulate widely! Open positions at the Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Dea…

RT @judyefan: New paper out in Current Directions in Psychological Science making the case for studying generative behaviors: https://t.co/…

RT @DanLapsley: Let's do psychology next. I have reviewed countless journal submissions where small questions nobody is asking is smothered…

@NancyRPearcey Hence, "almost"

@langofmind That's a sad statement about ideologues -- they don't change their views even after an encounter with reality: "despite his only real experience in an even vaguely similar setting to have been so terrible.

Chomsky never abandoned his anarcho-syndicalist ideology though. I almost kind of respect his commitment to it, despite his only real experience in an even vaguely similar setting to have been so terrible. In the end, I am really glad he went back to Harvard and MIT!

Chomsky and his wife left after 6 weeks. He apparently was very put off by the social culture, which he described as racist, exclusionary, and subject to ideological conformity. 3/

"I think of leaders like James Connolly and Patrick Pearse" Do ye, aye? Yesterday he said he hadn't thought enough about whether he supports a united Ireland. Bluffer! 😂😂

@victorckumar I went to a community event organized by my Turkish students last fall and a kid did a traditional shadow puppet play. The kids are alright

Culture is in decline. We’ve seen a massive drop in Vaudeville shows, silhouette portraiture, and epic poetry. The youth, I assume, are simply abstaining from creative expression.

Two-year-old, every second that T-Rex is not on screen as we watch Jurassic Park: "Where's T-Rex?"

@moultano Human Jesus was simply aware of the vulnerability of megafauna to mass extinction events. A timeless wisdom

@thedialogist If it portrays the Persians accurately I am all here for it

What we really need is a series that covers the youth of Alexander through the Wars of the Successors

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