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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats for opening the lab!

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Birthday to you !

Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · 21d

But people with spatial neglect do have problems imagining in a specific visual field (e.g., an experiment with Piazza del Duomo, Bisiach and Luzzatti, 1978).

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · 29d

Also, if the replication is done in non-English-speaking countries, not all languages may have equivalent terms for “smashed,” “hit,” or “bumped...

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 29

Can you give an example of a bug the LLM found? Did you have to first explain what the code was intended to do?

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am so sorry for your loss, Anil. You wrote so warmly about your mother in your book.

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks. Yeah… for now, LLMs are undoubtedly limited. I’d say it’s not about thinking for you. In some cases where I benefited, it was about getting hints (e.g., a direction of thought I hadn’t considered before). Just one more way to challenge yourself.

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 18

Asking an LLM to critique your research ideas or to search for confounds in the planned experiment, might also occasionally be helpful.

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 17

Indeed, Figs. 1 and 2 are insightful. We are using social animations, and it was illuminating to learn the extent the activation patterns vary across the paradigms.

Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 16

Maybe this playlist I encountered would be useful for you:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Psychology - YouTube

www.youtube.com

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you! @college-de-france.fr archive, permitting to watch your lectures recorded 15 years ago, is truly outstanding.

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dear Stan, if you record it (and upload afterwards), it could be awesome for people around the globe...

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jul 19

I'm very sorry to hear that, Jonathan. Wishing you a speedy and full recovery!

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats, well deserved!

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jun 15

Completely burned-down labs...

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jun 14

That’s a good question...
Those individuals have probably completed the VVIQ more than once in their lives. However, if the test-retest reliability of the VVIQ is good, then it’s probably not a major issue.

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jun 14

When they decrease the font size, it seems as though the people who design this stuff are too young to take into account that vision deteriorates with age — and many researchers aren’t that young...

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jun 14

From our perspective, it's obviously great that there are people willing to participate for free.. I’ve run some experiments on MTurk, where money is the only incentive. So, at Aphantasia Network has access to a large sample size, though the participants there are not entirely naïve.

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jun 14

There were 35,467 participants from aphantasia.com. The authors do not mention whether the participants were paid, so does this mean that people on the site are willing to take part in experiments just for fun...

Aphantasia Network · Image Free Thinking

A place to discover and learn about aphantasia

aphantasia.com

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jun 11

In Israel, April-September there is not single day without sun...

Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congrats!

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · May 29

It may also learn from your own requests. I now asked it to give me references on one of research themes I interacted with it previously. The refs and biblio details were correct. When I did the same request from account which had not made cognitive requests previously, the references were wrong.

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · May 28

Once they solve hallucinations with references, it will be difficult (or even impossible) to know whether the scientific writing was generated by a human or not. So, the way it works now offer some advantages 😀

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · May 27

First reference by Addis, Schacter et al., from 2019 also does not seem to exist. Donna Addis & Daniel Schacter pursued this line of research about a decade earlier...

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · May 17

"The experience had a profound impact on Penfield, who was inspired to found the Montreal Institute of Neurology, then, as now, one of the world’s leading centres for brain treatment and research."
mindhacks.com/2007/06/28/t...

The hardest cut: Penfield and the fight for his sister

In 1935, world renowned neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield published three remarkable case studies describing the psychological effects of frontal lobe surgery. They remain a fascinating insight into the…

mindhacks.com

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