Chaz Firestone
@chazfirestone
Cognitive scientist @JohnsHopkins. 🇨🇦 also: https://bsky.app/profile/chazfirestone.bsky.social
Out today!
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
love him, really i do, but can we agree that rhyming masses with masses was a weak moment in an otherwise incredible song
the app we are all using right now is not profitable either. should its employees be paid fairly? (yes, obviously)
Imagine being an employee at a company that has NEVER turned a profit and showing up to work in these shirts.
Cats like to sleep on the left cell.com/current-biolog…

i think our arguments are more like precision instruments but ok fine i will accept "sledgehammer" (@DorsaAmir @anilkseth @guardian)


Do you see circles or rectangles? How culturally dependent is perceptual experience? Inspired by two recent studies, I wrote this for today's @guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… .@chazfirestone
Attention may not be a necessary ingredient for visual awareness, according to a new study on inattentional blindness. By Kristel Tjandra thetransmitter.org/attention/atte…
Great write up of the lab's work on inattentional blindness (out recently in @eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/100337), ft. senior author @ibphillips
Attention may not be a necessary ingredient for visual awareness, according to a new study on inattentional blindness. By Kristel Tjandra thetransmitter.org/attention/atte…
Where Does Your Theory of Cognition Start From? On First Principles ift.tt/LeS3yiP
some big brain math in this one
Breaking: The Detroit Red Wings have signed Patrick Kane to a one-year contract with an average annual value of $3,000,000, the team announced Monday.
It was fun to work with @RossFirestone in writing this editorial for @BloodPortfolio #Blood "More than myeloma: the trouble with “normal” plasma cells", on the recent article from @nickbolli @matteoclaudio84 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @MSKCancerCenter @MSK_DeptOfMed #mmsm
you heard it here first: @rossfirestone is fun
It was fun to work with @RossFirestone in writing this editorial for @BloodPortfolio #Blood "More than myeloma: the trouble with “normal” plasma cells", on the recent article from @nickbolli @matteoclaudio84 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @MSKCancerCenter @MSK_DeptOfMed #mmsm