Barbu Revencu
@barbu-revencu.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist | Closeted Platonist | Postdoc at Collège de France and NeuroSpin in Paris
Preprint alert (link below)! @maxencepajot.bsky.social, @standehaene.bsky.social, and I show that human adults, but not convolutional or transformer networks, encode geometric shapes in hierarchically structured representations. TL;DR: Geometric-shape representations have internal syntax! 1/8
February 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Preprint alert (link below)! @maxencepajot.bsky.social, @standehaene.bsky.social, and I show that human adults, but not convolutional or transformer networks, encode geometric shapes in hierarchically structured representations. TL;DR: Geometric-shape representations have internal syntax! 1/8
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Paper w/ Gergely Csibra now out in Psych Review!
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
February 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Paper w/ Gergely Csibra now out in Psych Review!
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
Reposted by Barbu Revencu
New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
New paper from my dissertation out in Psych Review! I argue that early pretend play reflects a human-specific, general capacity to interpret objects as symbols. Preprint below.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
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December 13, 2024 at 5:10 PM
New paper from my dissertation out in Psych Review! I argue that early pretend play reflects a human-specific, general capacity to interpret objects as symbols. Preprint below.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...