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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 8d

Cool idiom study!

#language
#cognition

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Breaking new ground (and other expressions): Unearthing presuppositional strength of idioms

If you like idioms, you’ll be… head over heels… for this research. Allow me to… break the ice… without… beating around the bush. A new study on idioms by Nicholas Griffen and Ira Noveck is… the bee…

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 9d

Wondering if anyone can point me to a guide or set of resources on "how to create compelling/accessible data figure plots" for #psychology or #linguistics students.

Ditto for "creating compelling/accessible data tables".

Thank you.

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · Aug 16

It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century.

#philosophy #philsci #ai #cogsci

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

www.nytimes.com

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Jul 28

New review paper on theory of mind/mentalizing and spontaneous speech/language. Led by Chaimaa El Mouslih, and co-authored with @vegashodgins.bsky.social and @lenapl.bsky.social

www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Jul 16

It’s @nphillipsca.bsky.social !

Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Jul 15

🎥 Watch the video podcast! Dr Marta del Campo speaks with Professor Natalie Phillips on how hearing, vision & smell relate to dementia risk and ageing. #ISTAART #relay #AAIC25 #sensoryhealth #cognition

youtu.be/BqxKxLH4K8Y

Sensory Health and Cognition PIA - RELAY Video Podcast

YouTube video by Dementia Researcher

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Jul 1

A formulaic crisis on Canada Day..

theonion.com/idiom-shorta...

Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies

WASHINGTON—A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual cris...

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · May 21

A failure of the interocular suppression paradigm to assess sexual preferences in two studies
- Légère, Lalumière, Sawatsky, Gray, & Krupp

New online-first in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

buff.ly/gPaKkvj

@apajournals.bsky.social‬

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · May 13

We might! I forwarded to my students.

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · May 13

This looks useful!

Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · May 13

New feature in SemanticDistance R package -- give it an unordered list of words. It appends a semantic vector to each word, computes cosine distance all word pairs arrayed as square matrix. Converts to Euclidean, finds optimal hclustering solution (k), plots a dendrogram. Does it work? You decide!

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · May 11

We recently got an AI generated review.

Tell-tale signs: comments go paragraph by paragraph; number of papers cited or other irrelevant details described; anodyne/insipid comments. Others?

Authors and Editors, beware..

Social Indicators Research @socialindicators.bsky.social · May 11

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM.

If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.

Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

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Charlie Hind @hindcharlie.bsky.social · May 9

New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Being a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in science

Being in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ...

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · May 7

So did everyone watch #conclave last night or was it just me?

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · May 4

preaching to the choir here but language choices can reinforce bias, misinformation, etc for all sorts of folks.. eg, this piece led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social RE schizophrenia..

doi:10.1017/S0142716422000340

Saw another nytimes article on empathy this weekend that dovetails..

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · May 3

Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients.

Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...

Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak (Gift Article)

A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.

www.nytimes.com

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · May 1

New paper on L2/L1 irony processing in Memory & Cognition led by @vegashodgins.bsky.social. This was a team effort, including @antonioiniesta.bsky.social and others, notably Mehrgol Tiv who collected the data several years back.

rdcu.be/ekaeh

#language
#cognition
#irony
#multilingualism

Bilingual irony processing during natural reading: A within-participant look at L1 versus L2 effects using eye-movement measures

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Jen Briselli @jbriselli.bsky.social · Apr 18

I've fallen into lurker mode with this site lately but I'm still here... and this week I wrote this thing that seemed to resonate with a bunch of folks, maybe if you're into #SystemsThinking or #Complexity you'll dig it too:

Letter to a Young Systems Thinker

Don’t search for the answers.

medium.com

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Apr 22

Special Issue of @cjep.bsky.social on #Network Science in Experimental #Psychology is out today.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Note: the SI introduction and one paper are free to read.

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Apr 10

Just delivered my last psych of #bilingualism class of the semester.. Interacting with smart undergraduates about an important topic that I love is such a privilege..

#grateful

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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · Apr 4

EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.

A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).

Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…

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Zanna Clay @zannaclay.bsky.social · Mar 20

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44.
Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed.
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

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Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ @wicscanada.bsky.social · Mar 17

Are you a 🇨🇦 ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in Cognitive Science looking for a small grant to support a new collaborative research project? Apply for the @wicscanada.bsky.social Small Grant for Jr Scientists:
wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

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Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ @wicscanada.bsky.social · Mar 17

Know someone who is a fantastic mentor to 🇨🇦 women in cognitive science? Nominate them for the @wicscanada.bsky.social 2025 Mentorship Award:
wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology @cjep.bsky.social · Mar 17

Our Special Issue 'Network Science in Experimental Psychology' is out now! We will be featuring articles all week
@dtitone.bsky.social

Check out the table of contents here:
psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

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lizschotter.bsky.social @lizschotter.bsky.social · Mar 14

📢 out now in CABN: Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects - Cognitive, Affective, & Be...

The N400 ERP component has been characterized as a response reflecting binding of semantic memory states to create a “multimodal conceptual representation” (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011). An assumption of...

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Antonio Iniesta @antonioiniesta.bsky.social · Mar 14

Check out our paper on @cjep.bsky.social 📄 Questionnaire-based Language Entropy aligns well with social network-based Entropy across different sociolinguistic realities, and contexts, validating Language Entropy as a useful tool for quantifying language diversity. 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

APA PsycNet

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