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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 20d

Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling!
📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 NEW PREPRINT: Multimodal inference through mental simulation.

We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation.

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/cicl-stanfor...

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.

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Abdul-Rahim Deeb @ardeeb.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World”

📅 August 1 • 9 AM
📍 Salon 2

With
@thiskevinsmith.bsky.social
@shariliu.bsky.social
@judithfan.bsky.social
@ardeeb.bsky.social
— See you there! #CogSci2025

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

In ongoing work, we’re exploring other behavioral measures of student engagement and developing interventions to help more students overcome psychological barriers to succeeding in these courses!

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

We found robust links between various psychological factors (math anxiety, stress expectations, interest in math, self-efficacy, etc.) and quiz performance. But simply completing more of the learning activities was not associated with better performance!

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

We focused on estimating the strength of links between the attitudes/beliefs/knowledge students brought with them to the course (e.g., math anxiety; prior coding experience), their subsequent day-to-day engagement with the material, and their performance on quizzes.

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

We partnered with CourseKata (coursekata.org) to analyze longitudinal student learning data from 45 college-level data sci courses across 11 institutions.

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

Students come into data sci courses with varying levels of motivation and assumptions about themselves and the material. How do these psychological factors interact with their level of engagement with the course to determine how much they learn?

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

Linking student psychological orientation, engagement & learning in intro college-level data science

New work ‪‪at @cogscisociety.bsky.social w/ @erikbrockbank.bsky.social @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck & @judithfan.bsky.social

poster 8/1 @ 10:30
tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

We focused on estimating the strength of links between the attitudes/beliefs/knowledge students brought with them to the course (e.g., math anxiety; prior coding experience), their subsequent day-to-day engagement with the material, and their performance on quizzes.

Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

We partnered with CourseKata (coursekata.org) to analyze longitudinal student learning data from 45 college-level data sci courses across 11 institutions.

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

Students come into data sci courses with varying levels of motivation and assumptions about themselves and the material. How do these psychological factors interact with their level of engagement with the course to determine how much they learn?

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Jul 29

Students come into data sci courses with varying levels of motivation and assumptions about themselves and the material. How do these psychological factors interact with their level of engagement with the course to determine how much they learn?

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Verona Teo @veronateo.bsky.social · Jul 28

Excited to share our new work at #CogSci2025!

We explore how people plan deceptive actions, and how detectives try to see through the ruse and infer what really happened based on the traces left behind. 🕵️‍♀️

Paper: osf.io/preprints/osf/vqgz5_v1
Code: github.com/cicl-stanford/recursive_deception

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Justin Yang @justintheyang.bsky.social · Jul 29

Excited to be sharing my latest work with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social at #CogSci2025!

Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience?

📃 cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2...

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Erik Brockbank @erikbrockbank.bsky.social · Jul 29

"36 Questions That Lead To Love" was the most viewed article in NYT Modern Love.
Excited to share new results investigating these and other “deep questions” with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social & @rdhawkins.bsky.social
Preprint: tinyurl.com/bdfx5smk
Code: tinyurl.com/3v6pws4s

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Yuka Machino @ymacci.bsky.social · Jul 6

🎤 "Your #CogSci presentation was quite good this year."

How flattered or offended will you be? The answer may depend on whether you speak British or American English 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Our new #CogSci2025 paper reveals systematic differences in how different cultures interpret the same words.

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RT Pramod @rtpramod.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thrilled to announce our new publication titled 'Decoding predicted future states from the brain's physics engine' with @emiecz.bsky.social, Cyn X. Fang, @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Decoding predicted future states from the brain’s “physics engine”

Using fMRI in humans, this study provides evidence for future state prediction in brain regions involved in physical reasoning.

www.science.org

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Junyi Chu @junyi.bsky.social · Jun 6

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️!

We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺
🔗 minds-making.github.io

June – July 2024, free & open to the public
(all career stages, all disciplines)

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Shawn Schwartz @shawnschwartz.bsky.social · Jun 5

I’m pleased to share our new review article, “Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory”, written with Haopei Yang (HY), Alice Xue, and Anthony Wagner, now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science. 🚀🧠 A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452

Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory - Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner, 2025

The ability to learn from and remember experiences (episodic memory) depends on multiple neurocognitive systems. In this article, we highlight recent advances i...

doi.org

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · May 14

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style?

In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kristine Zheng @kristinezheng.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Erik Brockbank @erikbrockbank.bsky.social · Mar 7

Whoops I apparently have no idea how graphics work, please enjoy this hilarious inverted SVG situation and head to project-nightingale.stanford.edu to see the *real* graphic

Project Nightingale

project-nightingale.stanford.edu

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