Marina Dubova
@dubova_marina
incoming asst professor @ucberkeley psych. cognitive scientist studying mechanisms of discovery at @sfiscience. also @mdubova.bsky.social
As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments, to pursue the questions I find most important and meaningful. I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a…
🚨 We’re hiring! I'm looking for a Postdoc & Lab Manager to join my team at Brown University starting this summer. Come work on computational modeling & neuroimaging in embodied intelligence & psychiatry 🔗 fpetzschner.com/lab/team/joinu… Please share! #AcademicJobs #Neurojobs #Hiring
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/Bs2Y50UWRiN For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/MC0I50UWRiO.
Why do scientists disagree? With the amazing Justin Sulik, @NakWonRim, Elizabeth Pontikes, and @glupyan, we show in @NatureHumBehav how cognitive traits and dispositions align with persistent scientific divides, using article text, references, surveys, and the same cognitive…
What we mean when we say semantic? In this paper a large pool of researchers led by the great (and brave) Jamie Reilly get together to discuss possible answers, while reaching new heights of collaborative and inclusive effort in academia 🫂 link.springer.com/article/10.375…
Ever been dissatisfied with the terms and concepts used in your cognitive field? Join us for a workshop on improving concepts in cognitive science! Details here: sites.google.com/view/cogconcep…
Just one week left until the #CogSci2024 in Rotterdam! 🇳🇱🤩 Don't miss the #Workshop ‘Improving concepts in Cognitive Science’ Organisers: Marina Dubova, Lisa Feldman Barrett @LFeldmanBarrett, Robert Goldstone, Sebastian Musslick @smusslick, and Russel Poldrack @russpoldrack
📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d4158…
How do scientific concepts influence the very evidence scientists seek to uncover? How can we improve scientific ontologies in light of this challenge? We explore these questions in a new @TrendsCognSci review and are looking forward to community’s feedback!
Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidence Review by Marina Dubova & Robert Goldstone @dubova_marina @RobertGoldston5 Free access until June 29th: bit.ly/3MuIGS4
A couple meta-science presentations... get excited! On May 3, we'll have two exciting presentations! Here's a thread with more information
@CSSSA_org hosts an exciting webinar on Wednesday May 3 at 10am ET. We will hear from @amaatouq and @dubova_marina about “ Possible Futures of Social Science: Lessons from Computational Social Science” Register here! eventbrite.com/e/csssa-may-we…
Should theories guide experimentation in science? What does a "theory-independent" experiment look like? A thoughtful commentary by @JessicaHullman on our recent work (osf.io/preprints/meta…, with @arseny_mo @KevinZollman). Check it out :)
How much should theories guide learning through experiments? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/07/14/how…
Really enjoyed this new paper by @dubova_marina exploring exactly when you can and can't assume that El-Greco-style "cancelling out" undermines a reported perceptual effect. (I got a sneak peek a while back.) The debate continues! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
If our preprint 'How hard is cognitive science?' piqued your interest, check out this final version published in the Proceedings of #CogSci2021 escholarship.org/uc/item/8cr8x1…… and drop by the Poster Session 3, Thursday July 29th, 17:20 -- 19:00 CEST. The poster number is 3-G-204.
Updated (final) version of "How hard is cognitive science?", by Patricia Rich, Ronald de Haan, Todd Wareham, and myself, is now available. Let me make a thread with highlights for the occasion 🧵👇 1/n psyarxiv.com/k79nv
Want to know why it's hard to scale up models of language evolution? Come watch our talk at #CogSci2021 today 16:40 to 17:00 CEST! (Session IP6: Language models 1) See below for thread summarising the paper w/ @matspike, Ronald de Haan, Todd Wareham, @IrisVanRooij & @MarkBlokpoel
This paper asks how models of language evolution can scale from toy scale (as in existing simulation studies) to ecological scale (as in real-world linguistic contexts). It observes a theoretical obstacle, which is conveniently summarised in the screenshots.
Chiara Scarampi & I are organising a virtual conference on Cognitive Offloading, 15-16 July. Free & open to all, submissions welcomed, please join us! cognitiveoffloading.net/conference2021/ @UCL_ICN @EP_UCL
Introducing ManyBirds: an Open Science multi-site collaboration investigating the evolution of avian cognition & behaviour, following the exemplary ManyBabies, @ManyPrimates and @ManyDogsProject. Our 1st article is now available in pre-print: psyarxiv.com/83xkt 1/
A new paper on (i) how to connect high-level cognitive theories to neuroscience / neural nets, and (ii) how learners can construct new concepts like number or logic without presupposing them. "Church encoding" is the metaphor we need. link.springer.com/article/10.100…