Stéphanie Aubertin

@grok @sbuehler @PessoaBrain However, data from neuroscience provides compelling evidence, such as the latest article by Feldman Barrett and Miller: nature.com/articles/s4158…

The book is mainly a philosophical/epistemological critique. Brette examines the conceptual foundations of predictive frameworks (and related ideas like coding/representation), showing they stem from flawed machine/engineering metaphors that don't align with how self-organized biological systems actually work. He references literature to highlight weak empirical/theoretical support for those assumptions, but doesn't present new experimental evidence—it's about rethinking the metaphors themselves. Thought-provoking for theory-building.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗮𝘆? Fascinating and profound book on what brains are *not* and what they might be. Including criticism of the computational and predictive brain frameworks. You might not agree with some of it but quite thought provoking.

@WJCCHZRZNSK @DavidePiffer Getting paid to work, what an idea! Meh.

@DavidePiffer Is it worth for you keeping substack articles paywalled? Your writing seems interesting, but there's only a handful of writers I would actually pay to read online. I never have enough time to read my backlog of books, articles, and interviews. Paying for online content feels meh.

I’ve unlocked this recent post because it explains many of the population genetic concepts I use and clears up several common misconconceptions: davidepiffer.com/p/europeans-di…

@DelphineCarlie7 @psy_massondavid @RTLFrance C'est que vous séparez émotion et cognition. Ce débat est clos depuis quelques temps maintenant.

@stef028 @psy_massondavid @RTLFrance C'est pourtant bien une peur irrationnelle. J'ai pendant longtemps eu la phobie des papillons presque à en faire des syncopes. Il n'y a rien de rationnelle dans cette peur.

C'est quoi une phobie ? Réponse ce matin sur l'antenne de @RTLFrance ⬇️

@YannLe_Strat "Personnes de tous les genres" ? Si on veut rester scientifique, on parlera de sexes.

📖Extrait de la page 18 de mon livre "Sommes-nous tous TDAH?" 🧐Debunkons un mythe: "TDAH, est-ce que ce n'est pas le nom 'politiquement correct' pour parler des garçons mal éduqués?" 🤨

@RiotIQ When RIOTIQ is available in French, with pleasure ;)

📢 We're looking for researchers or graduate students who are interested in being research partners. We have a special interest in studies that would report the correlation between RIOT scores and external variables (e.g., in health, attitudes/opinions, scores on other tests).

@cremieuxrecueil @KirkegaardEmil So ?

France's national railway company pulled out of bidding for the high-speed rail contract in California in 2011. They said the state was awful to work in and they preferred to work somewhere less dysfunctional. So they went to North Africa.

@SteveStuWill That's what I often observe in therapy sessions.

"For all their good intentions, campaigns intended to raise awareness are leading some people to conflate normal responses to life's difficulties with mental-health disorders." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/over-diagnos…

@timothycbates @Standardsforall @JamesPsychol I also noticed the term "stereotype". I then searched the page of this paper and the term does not appear...

@Standardsforall @JamesPsychol The stereotype work preceded this paper: it showed that high cognitive ability people’s stereotypes were closer to the true mean of the distribution being stereotyped. This paper really extends and nails this idea.

Forecasting is crucial for major decisions: Marry him/her? Accept a house offer? Invest in NVIDIA? Intelligent people make better forecasts, including having more accurate stereotypes. Now a new paper links these lower forecasting errors to high polygenic IQ scores: Nice inverted U, with smaller errors flowing from high polygenic scores:

@SteveStuWill Only Freudian psychoanalysts 😉

"Differences don’t imply deficiencies. As sex differences expert Diane Halpern put it, everyone agrees that men and women’s genitals are different, but no one would argue that either sex’s genitals are superior." [Link below.]

@psy_massondavid Pourquoi, selon vous, certains développent un PTSD et d'autres non ?

3️⃣Conséquence directe de l'exposition à l'événement, le trouble de stress post-traumatique (TSPT) est la complication psychiatrique la + fréquente après ce type d’événement. Pas d'homogéneité des symptômes ⚠️On ne choisit pas nos réactions: pas de jugement à porter sur l'impact!

Info utile du jour en #psychiatrie: le psychotraumatisme après un attentat. 10 ans après les terribles attentats du 13 novembre, derrière le souvenir collectif, des blessures invisibles continuent d’impacter la santé mentale de beaucoup. 🔟 points essentiels pour comprendre⬇️

@psy_massondavid Qu'appelez-vous "oubli" ou "pas d'oubli" ?

🔟Ce 10e anniversaire est un moment pour se souvenir, mais aussi pour reconnaître la souffrance invisible et continuer d'agir. Alors, -hommage aux victimes -hommage aux familles -hommage aux professionnels qui sont intervenus, CUMP, centres de psychotraumatisme... #PasDOubli

@dr_appie It's very expensive !

One for the office and one for home

@gen0m1cs Could you explain your point 2 ?

This is a solid review article on the molecular biology of human intelligence; highly recommended read. Finally got to it, so just a couple thoughts. 1) As I've said before, much of the future of human intelligence research lies in molecular genetics (with an obvious underpinning of statistical genetics). Yeah, traditional psychology and psychometrics are fun (and definitely needed), but the real meat and bulk of future intelligence research will come from molecular neurobiology combined with genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and neuroimaging: a multi-omics approach. 2) On SES, it's key to recognize that just because something is indirect doesn't mean it isn't a biologically consequential selective pressure. Something can be sociocultural in origin, but its selective effects can over time become biologically instantiated, i.e., encoded in changing population-level allele distributions that influence cognitive or behavioral phenotypes. This is crucial when comparing heritability estimates for traits like intelligence between population-level studies and within-family studies. Statistical controls don't imply biological irrelevance. Removing indirect effects for causal inference at the individual level doesn't mean those effects at the population level aren't part of a real evolutionary feedback system shaping genetic architecture over time. Some bad-faith actors overlook this distinction, comparing the two study types as if they're measuring the same thing or claiming indirect effects are simply biologically irrelevant. Nope. Controlling for them refines causal inference but doesn't negate their role as genuine evolutionary mechanisms. 3) Speaking of bad-faith actors, gotta call out Turkheimer's ridiculous article in The Atlantic (shame on the editors). His "we still don’t know what’s going on" line is no longer tenable and hasn’t been for a while. We have documented mechanistic chains from genotype to cell physiology to network efficiency to cognition; what's incomplete is quantitative integration, not the existence of mechanisms. Moreover, what I described in point 2 is exactly what Turkheimer et al. often do, and he's simply wrong: treating indirect effects like SES, genetic nurture, and assortative mating as mere statistical artifacts with no biological relevance. Also, gotta point out: Turkheimer is a psychologist, not a geneticist.

@RiotIQ @ICAJournal @rjhaier Everything I'm trying to understand through my reading in these related fields !

The @ICAJournal has a new article by @rjhaier about the connections between IQ scores, genes, and brain functioning (with some evolutionary biology and environmental influence thrown in, too). It's an information-packed article that connects findings from different branches of psychology, neuroscience, and biology to show (1) how humans evolved such smart brains and (2) the biological process that connects each individual's genetic blueprint to brains that show individual differences in intelligence. Here are some highlights: ➡️Regions of the brain that have experienced large changes in recent evolutionary history seem to be more important for intelligence. ➡️There has been a evolutionary tradeoff: in exchange for a larger, smarter brain (and enhanced regions of the brain), the brain has been more hungry for energy. Balancing these two conflicting demands has been an evolutionary tightrope that humans seem to have walked. ➡️There are specific genes (discussed in the paper) with common variants that are very likely to have biological functions that result in smarter brains. The function of these genes are understood, and though their relationship with IQ is modest, they give us important clues into how genes result in smarter brains. (After all, the genes don't whisper the answer to an IQ test question into your ear. Any impact they have on IQ must be via biology.) ➡️Fetal development seems to be fine tuned for building a smart brain (under normal conditions), especially in the timing of uptake of polyunsaturated fatty acids during the third trimester. There is a lot more in the article. It doesn't answer every question about how intelligence develops (either in the species at large or in individual humans), but it pulls together a great deal of interesting evidence in one place. Read it here (with no paywall): icajournal.scholasticahq.com/article/146520…

@ChampoDr Ben non, l'image de droite n'est pas si parfaite que ça car elle nous rend vulnérable : une seule plaie à cet endroit et on meurt 😉 Sinon, il y a le "Petit traité d'anatomie superflue" de Guillaume Lecointre.

Si Dieu existait vraiment.

@Russwarne Nicolas Sarkozy for example 😉

@AllenFrancesMD Like Coherence therapy

My def't psychodynamic therapy: Identifying recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, & behaviors; encouraging insight into how they arose in past relationships & impact present ones; promoting corrective emotional experiences in & out of treatment; helping patients love & work.

@psy_massondavid @DuDetour Un sommaire est-il disponible ?

Très ému de vous le présenter😊. Ce livre, je l'ai écrit pour transmettre. Parce que je suis psychiatre. Parce que je crois en une #psychiatrie humaine, accessible et engagée. 📖"Santé mentale: ce que peut vraiment la psychiatrie" Sortie le 28 août dans vos librairies @DuDetour⬇️

@Russwarne Oh! I know this feeling very well. I don't review manuscripts, but I look at colleagues' posts on social media or read their books.