Falk Huettig
@falk_huettig
Cognitive Scientist at Max Planck, Prof of Psychology Author of 'Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind' published by Cambridge on 6 March 2025
Our new paper in Science Advances on how illiterates’ brains change when they learn to read advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/ea…
This analysis is spot on but there’s no country in the world where (‘true non-capitalist’) socialism has ever worked in the long run. Perhaps what is needed is an honest evolutionary analysis of common ‘traits’ of our species and what this means for developing a just society
The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are…
Visuospatial working memory load reduces semantic prediction in the visual world (in press, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience). Lead author Chris Allison, with L. Fernandez and T. Lachmann (all RPTU Kaiserslautern) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…
The true colors of reading: Literacy enhances lexical-semantic processing in rapid automatized and discrete object naming (Cognition, in press), with Susana Araújo, Tânia Fernandes, Margarida Cipriano, Laura Mealha, Catarina Silva-Nunes (all Uni of Lisbon) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…
‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind‘ is now available as ebook via Cambridge Core cambridge.org/core/books/loo…
My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) cambridge.org/de/universityp…
In the journal Brain Research we introduce The virtual hand paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions. Joint work with O. Jubran and T. Lachmann. Open access a sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) cambridge.org/de/universityp…
It's been fascinating to read this academic debate between @DorsaAmir/@chazfirestone and @JoHenrich! The authors present compelling evidence that the Müller-Lyer illusion is not the byproduct of culture, but I think they've all been focusing on the wrong illusion... 🧵 (1/25)
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):
The deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration for the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC) in Zurich is coming up soon. culturalcogsci.org/AnnualMeeting.…
Interested in how language production is regulated and controlled? Here's an update, in light of new developments in the cognitive control literature. nature.com/articles/s4415…
2025 Maha Kumbh Mela Ganges River pilgrimage from the ISS at night. The largest human gathering in the world is well lit.
Ex-„Tagesschau“-Planer: „Westdeutsch sind die Chefs, westdeutsch ist der Blick auf die Welt“ berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnue…
📅Save the Date!📅 From 7 to 9 January 2025, the MPI and @Radboud_Uni will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures. The lectures will be given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira: mpi.nl/events/nijmege…
According to a recent paper, the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way, they were born with rich parents.
Coming soon
Looking Ahead by Falk Huettig A rigorous yet accessible guide to the predictive revolution in science spanning psychological, mathematical, and neurobiological theories. 📚 cup.org/4fY3Pjz #psychology #cognition
Dear Slim, I wrote you, but you still ain’t callin’ I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not’ve got ’em There prob’ly was a problem at the post office or somethin’
Nick Cave: “I was happy to see Bob on X, just as many on the Left had performed a Twitterectomy and headed for Bluesky. It felt admirably perverse, in a Bob Dylan kind of way”
Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.
It's time!📝 Registration for the Nijmegen Lectures 2025 is now open. Join us for three days of lectures given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira from 7 to 9 January. Register here: mpi.nl/events/nijmege…
These are worrying trends because there are direct links between decreasing reading habits, decreasing literacy, and decreasing intelligence theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…
Truth is both left and right have been working hard to destroy the independence of science in the ‘West’, perhaps a golden age for (fairly) independent science is coming to an end
The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are…