Sheila Macrine, Ph.D.
@MacrinePhD
Professor, Cognitive Psychologist at UMass Dartmouth. She focuses: embodied cognition and Learning Sciences. https://embodiedcognitionandlearning.com/
Coming April 19th. Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition informs teaching and learning(2022)@mitpress argues that body-based practices support student learning. #edutwitter #Edutopia @LSXFellowship #LearningSciences @TeachingSTEM @teachereducator mitpress.mit.edu/books/movement…
Mind-bending paper on the paradox of enhanced intuition during flow, using a revised dual-processing framework & #ActiveInference #Cognition #HumanPerformance #Consciousness #Psychology" academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…
What is time in the quantum realm? ⏳ A Special Issue is uniting physicists & philosophers to explore everything from time operators & retrocausality to quantum gravity #QuantumPhysics #TimeTheory #Physics #Philosophy"#Science" #Entropy mdpi.com/journal/entrop…
**Call for Presentations and Workshops: 5th Applied Active Inference Symposium (November 12-14, 2025)** We invite researchers and practitioners to submit presentations for the 5th Applied Active Inference Symposium 2025, held online November 12-14, 2025, more information at…
🔬 New research shows a molecule produced by gut bacteria not only induces but causes atherosclerosis, the root of heart attacks & strokes. Unexpected microbe-cardiovascular disease link.#Heartattack #GutBrainAxis #ScienceNews nature.com/articles/s4158…
Sentence Processing by Brian Dillon: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Cognition all the way down! Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones) @drmichaellevin @danieldennett #Cognition #diverseintelligences #cells #embodiedintelligence share.google/tOblRzIJ84QdQ2…
MIT Open Learning is integrating cutting-edge AI into select courses like Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Cell Biology and more! Also support from an AI tutor on problem sets. Enrollment is open! #MIT #OnlineLearning #AIEducation #Science news.mit.edu/2025/mit-learn…
New preprint: "Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)" osf.io/preprints/psya… driven by: substack.com/@drtompollak @HamiltonMorrin @RicardoTwumasi and many others "Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a…
Zebrafish Larvae Interface (ZLI) platform allows larval zebrafish to control a robot's motion via their optokinetic response. A game-changer for closed-loop neuro-robotic experiments. #ZebrafishResearch #SensorimotorIntegration #Robotics #Neuroscience frontiersin.org/journals/neuro…
Octopuses are reported to fall for the "rubber hand" illusion. @AnnaCiaunica @pgodfreysmith. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oct… youtu.be/mv5fY-DB6Lg?si…
🤯 New research leverages FEP & Markov blankets to develop a mathematical physics approach to identifying and classifying "objects" in dynamic systems. #FreeEnergyPrinciple #MarkovBlanket #ComplexSystems #AI #Mathematics arxiv.org/abs/2502.21217
Here is the link for the Artifical General Intelligence conference sign up. agi-conf.org/2025/ Also a good link to @AnnaCiaunica paper. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…
Speaking about consciousness. Great paper had to repost. #FreeEnergyPrinciple #ActiveInference #Predictiveprocessing #KarlFriston #LanceDaCosta
New study uses math to model consciousness as a "belief" about the world! 🧠 This explains individual differences in experience, the energy cost of consciousness, and even our perception of time. 🤯 #consciousness #neuroscience #neurophenomenology #math arxiv.org/abs/2409.20318
5 years ago the late great Philosopher Daniel Dennett talk unpacks consciousness! Check out: Consciousness, Qualia and the "Hard Problem" #Consciousness #Philosophy #DanielDennett #Functionalism #Mind #Qualia #HardProblem youtu.be/eSaEjLZIDqc?si…
How does your body know a life-saving medication from a dangerous virus? The answer is a 500-million-year-old protein network that acts as an ancient immune defense security system! #Immunology #Science #Evolution #Biology #Cells beblog.seas.upenn.edu/bodys-ancient-…
Congratulations to Lance DaCosta on his incredible mathematical explanation of Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle!!! He breaks down #FEP youtu.be/qxEfcrmTWO4?si… via @YouTube
Movement is fundamental to intelligence! A window into biological evolution! youtu.be/Rs3ua3j8woE mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/… @Kriegmerica #AI #Robotics #Intelligence #Evolution #Science
