René Scheeringa
@ReneScheeringa
Jordan Peterson: how the left manufactured a folk devil spiked-online.com/2020/11/27/jor…
My review paper "Why so curious? Quantifying mechanisms of information seeking" with @CoolsControl and @flodlan @predictivebrain is now published in Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
After years of hard and smart work by Tommy Clausner together with @Jose_P_Marques and Mathilde Bonnefond our work on how neural oscillations measured with EEG relate to feature specifc laminar fMRI is finally ready to be shared with the public. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Why just disagree when you can be offended? If you merely disagree with something, you might have to provide evidence.
For those, who missed the 3rd layer-fMRI "dinner" on Tuesday, the recordings are now available: layerfmri.com/virtualevent3/
Mark your calendars; the next virtual layer-fMRI webinar is scheduled for April 20th. It will be about the connection of Cognitive Models and Cortical Layers. Speakers are Floris de Lange, Andre Bastos, and Michelle Moerel layerfmri.com/virtualevent3/
(1) Trouble with free speech is eventually some asshole weaponises it w/ technology (2) Trouble with policed speech is eventually some asshole weaponises it w/ technology (1) needed to be prioritised this week. But let's not forget how much stronger the risk of (2) now is.
Moral psychology principle #3: Morality binds and blinds
Watching former Republican senators who were hyper-moralists during the Clinton presidency defend Donald Trump on CNN every chance they can highlights how morality was, for them, simply a weapon to be used against Democrats/Clinton but not Republicans/Trump. Tribalism corrupts.
While most concerns about the US becoming like Putin's Russia focused on an authoritarian president, I'm starting to worry about an enfeebled Congress with extremist wings like Russia's: Nationalists and Communists!
Nooooooo😭
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The fact that this map likely got every state right, except Florida is... highly suggestive that the polling problem of 2016 was not solved.