Embodied Cognitive Science Unit
@ECSUnit
Unit @OISTedu in Okinawa investigating how embodied, social & tech-mediated interaction shapes cognition using haptics, hyperscanning, and artificial life
Hello @ECSUnit definitely need a little more insight into Haptic Models 🤓
Mechanisms over Metaphors. Also reminds me of what @EricConk32 was bringing attention to. Neuroscience leads the way. ✨
What a joy to talk with @mathgrayuk over two hourd about hyperscanning, machine consciousness, and active inference.
Finally published: “Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds” nature.com/articles/s4146… Enhancing the capabilities of recurrent neural networks by deforming their geometry!
I'm thrilled to report that our past postdoc Andrés G. Mejía Ramón is on a roll! 🥳 While working in ECSU at @OISTedu, he developed packages to enable archaeologists to better measure social inequality and to do so across scales: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…
Does a hive of bees constitute a unified agent in its own right? 🐝+🐝+... =🐝? 🤔 Using a 2D cellular automata model of bee movement dynamics, recent PhD graduate Dr @Ivan_Shpurov revealed time series signatures that support this collective integration. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11592