Iris Berent
@berent_iris
I'm a Professor of Psychology at Northeastern. I study human nature, and why we (laypeople) cannot get it right.
Thank you @sapinker for the kind words. These data really surprised me. The bottom line: there is so much more to transgender identity than sex (or gender)!
The gender-sex incongruence is partly a mind–body incongruence | Interesting finding on the cognitive intuitions behind gender identity, by my longtime psycholinguistics collaborator Iris Berent and my Harvard Psychology colleague Jill Hooley | Scientific Reports…
The gender-sex incongruence is partly a mind–body incongruence | Interesting finding on the cognitive intuitions behind gender identity, by my longtime psycholinguistics collaborator Iris Berent and my Harvard Psychology colleague Jill Hooley | Scientific Reports…
A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping in a traditional society with no formal math, the Himba of Namibia #Number #MentalNumberLine Our paper on @NatureComms @elena_eccher @JosserandMathi1 @SergeCaparos @BoissinEsther #marcobuiatti #manuelapiazza nature.com/articles/s4146…
Great symposium on consciousness intuitions and illusions with @davidchalmers42, @ClaraColombatto and Matan Mazor at the ASSC, Crete.
Bravo!
The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. hrvd.me/ResearchFundin…
Is #dualism shaped by formative life experiences? This new paper shows that transgender people are far more likely to align the self with the mind than cisgender individuals. We conclude that the #sex-#gender contrast is partly a mind-body contrast. nature.com/articles/s4159…
GPT's hallucinations drive me nuts. Not particularly surprising, but still....
How could #consciousness arise from physical brains? Here is why this "hard problem" is difficult. The reasons are demonstrably psychological. A new piece in Nautilus. nautil.us/consciousness-…
Here is a recent, interesting paper of his. I hope you will remember him by his words. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/no-ge…
Sad news to share. I was expecting @sabawalid to present a talk to my lab this past Thursday. Walid never showed up. I'm told he passed away. It's a terrible loss. He was a deeply thoughtful, original and independent scholar. I miss him greatly.
Sad news to share. I was expecting @sabawalid to present a talk to my lab this past Thursday. Walid never showed up. I'm told he passed away. It's a terrible loss. He was a deeply thoughtful, original and independent scholar. I miss him greatly.
It was wonderful chatting with the great @DavidEdmonds100 !
How much of our understanding of the world comes built-in? @berent_iris, professor of psychology at @Northeastern, discusses innateness of human behavior on a new episode of the Social Science Bites podcast. Listen now and learn more about her research: ow.ly/U8M550SP36G
Cognitive science proposes plausible explanations of behavior. But did you know that some behavioral patterns logically imply that certain neural representations *must* exist? New paper w/ Randy Gallistel. Implications for neuroscience and machine learning onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…
Is your #brain playing tricks on you? 🧠 Here's how our #brains trick us into thinking consciousness can reside outside the body: ⤵️ bit.ly/3K3Iw2f
Why does @consciousness (C) seem distinct from the physical--because it IS, or only SEEMS so? Here, I show that C intuitions shift--C sometimes seems nonphysical and sometimes physical. C intuitions, then, cannot be trusted to speak to what C is. academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…
Such an elegant demonstration of core knowledge. Well done!
Strong evidence for innate knowledge of object permanence. arxiv.org/abs/2402.14641