Some of the scholars mentioned in this article have presented at The International Memory Reading Group that @jonathannajenson.bsky.social and I run: sites.google.com/view/memoryr...

IPM 4.5 starting now!

IPM 4.5 starts Thursday!

Don't forget IPM4.5 is coming up next week!

🚨Coming up soon on May 22–23: the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)! Amazing lineup of speakers, with each early-career talk followed by commentary.

Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5

Join us online on May 22–23 for the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)

I regret to information the Bluesky philosophy community that Michael Friedman, noted philosopher of science and ground-breaking historian of Kant, neo-Kantianism, and logical positivism has died. May his memory be a blessing. #philsci

Thanks for the shout-out, Nir!

'Engrams and causal specificity' has now been published in Philosophical Psychology

Deadline extended! Submit to #IPM4.5 by March 15th

Kinda like computational modeling 👀

🚨 Final call for #IPM4.5! Join us on 22–23 May for a new format: an early-career researcher's talk followed by a commentary from an established researcher. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March.
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More generally, we believe this kind of design shows that time is of the essence! Cool insights into the dynamics of cognitive control pop up when you bring participants back for multiple sessions. Huge thanks to my collaborators Rut Zaks‑Ohayon, Yossi Tzelgov, and the incredible Nir Fresco! (fin)

Surprisingly, the impact of task conflict didn’t increase with practice—performance gains were similar after the first session. We think task conflict is strongest when the conflict is novel. (5/n)

We found that repeating the task over consecutive sessions and across weeks improved response times in both congruent and incongruent trials, but the effect persisted. So, while you do get faster, overcoming interference from the sensory and semantic informational conflict doesn’t go away (4/n)

Beyond the informational conflict in Stroop stimuli, we manipulated task conflict by varying the proportion of word vs. non-word stimuli like ####. A higher proportion of non-word stimuli is thought to create greater task conflict, leading to higher expected interference with task stimuli (3/n)

The Stroop task is a classic tool to study cognitive flexibility. But how does repeated practice influence how we handle the conflict between sensory and semantic information encountered in the Stroop task? (2/n)

Excited to share my first experimental paper! We tackle how practice shapes cognitive control by running a month-long Stroop task. Here’s a 🧵: (1/n)
doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I think it goes something like laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect the more we know how they are made

Is this a metaphor about sausages?

Randy Beer has a nice piece on this -
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I think the motivation was (is?) that dynamical systems need not entail representational talk, unlike classical computation. Totally agree that they work well together though

Looks amazing, congrats! Looking forward to reading it soon

If your work explores the connections between memory, emotion and forgiveness, and if it does so from a philosophical and/or psychological perspective, please consider submitting a manuscript to this special issue: link.springer.com/collections/... #philosophy #psychology #emotion #forgiveness