Michael C. Frank
@mcxfrank
Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. @stanfordsymsys director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad.
Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever). experimentology.io Some highlights! 🧵

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science launches Thematic Collections. #OECS is a free, open access resource for learning about the mind. Looking for great material to teach or just to dig into yourself? Start here. Ping us if you have ideas for more! oecs.mit.edu/themes
A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models. New work with @kmahowald and @ChrisGPotts! 🧵👇
1. Does research by @CaraOcobock @Anthrofuentes & others, widely reported in SciAm & elsewhere, finally dispel hunter-gatherer myths that have persisted since the 60's? In a preprint led by @vivek_vasi The Meanings&Dividends of Man the Hunter osf.io/preprints/osf/… we respond🧵
Open Science by Simine Vazire: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
WEIRD by Joseph Henrich: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Spatial Cognition by Nora S. Newcombe: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Open Science by Simine Vazire: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Bayesian Models of Cognition by Thomas L. Griffiths: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Compositionality by Christopher Potts: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Mental Imagery by Margherita Arcangeli: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Psycholinguistics by Victor S. Ferreira: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Social Epistemology by Mandi Astola: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Speech Errors by Giulia M. L. Bencini: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind? In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/psya…



Bayesian Models of Cognition by Thomas L. Griffiths: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Many studies suggest AI has achieved human-like performance on various cognitive tasks. But what is “human-like” performance? Our new paper conducted a human re-labeling of several popular AI benchmarks and found widespread biases and flaws in task and label designs. We make 5…
Linguistic Variation by Evan Kidd: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…
Language Production by Zenzi M. Griffin: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…