Jonathan Phillips
jsphillips.bsky.social
Jonathan Phillips
@jsphillips.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist / philosopher working on modality and high level cognition.

Cognitive science at Dartmouth
https://phillab.host.dartmouth.edu/

Photo credit: Justin Khoo
Super interesting - excited to dig in! I've been thinking a lot about sampling approaches (including ours) and their benefits and drawbacks recently. Would be fun to chat about sometime soon!
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Please share widely - we would love a broad range of applicants!
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Or this, hopefully now working, OSF link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
April 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If the OSF link isn't working for you, the preprint can also be found here: dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?f...
dataverse.harvard.edu
April 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We find that the visual system's representation of multiple possibilities is selectively disrupted by perceptual load, but not cognitive load, demonstrating that the key processes underlying the perception of possibilities occur before the information reaches high-level cognition!
April 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The key idea (developed with Camden Parker and @violastoermer.bsky.social) was to use amodal completion as a case where the visual system can represent multiple possibilities (possible shapes) and then ask whether this representation is differentially disrupted by perceptual load or cognitive load.
April 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM