A short list of recommendations, from my sticky notes, for a panel I participated in for students, postdocs, and other lab peeps...
David Poeppel
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David Poeppel
@davidpoeppel
• NYU
• Max Planck Society
Married to writer @amypoeppel
Kids @alexpoeppel @andrewpoeppel @lukepoeppel
Joined March 2009
- I'm leaving @ESI_Frankfurt. I’ll miss the huge group of kind smart hardworking 95% who make it so promising. But relieved to leave the handful of people whose behavior does not meet minimal standards of morality. In admin & senior science, a few truly *appalling* people. 🧵 soon.
- I need to learn much more about memory. This paper is terrific, very clear position. Rosemary Cowell @morganbarense Patrick Sadil "A Roadmap for Understanding Memory: Decomposing Cognitive Processes into Operations and Representations"
- Coming soon to a desk near you: New edition, new editorial team, new chapters, new overview of where our field is. Thanks @mitpress for continuing to support this endeavor.@davidpoeppel It is coming...
- Big data versus big theory - what will solve the big problems in cognitive neuroscience? I'm hosting this debate at the (25th anniv) CNS meeting in Boston, Sat Mar 24. The cast: Eve Marder, Alona Fyshe @alonamarie, Gary @GaryMarcus , Jack @gallantlab Should be quite fun, no?
- job Job JOB! The NYU Psychology Department has up to three faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience. apply.interfolio.com/66303 Deadline October 1. Please Retweet. And let your friends/family/frenemies/trainees/NobelAspirants/colleagues/professional societies know. Cool place.
- Exciting new TENURE TRACK JOB at NYU!! Assistant Professor of Psychology and Music. Position to bridge Department of Psychology and Steinhardt Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL). Neuroscience expertise and enthusiasm for tech nerdiness welcome. apply.interfolio.com/53331
- For enthusiasts of the temporal structure of perceptual experience, fascinating new data: "Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production" nature.com/articles/s4156… Thanks, @GaglBenjamin & @cfiebach for allowing me to participate in this work
- On Tuesday May 26, I'm giving an online lecture in the context of the Abralin Ao Vivo Lecture series - excellent initiative by the linguistic societies of many countries. 6pm NYC time, 7pm Rio time, midnight Frankfurt time. Grab a drink and listen and ask youtube.com/watch?v=Kj5MV8…
- Thank you @ESIneuroscience for welcoming me! I'm excited to help further develop systems, computational, and cognitive neuroscience in Frankfurt (with its banks, bards, and brains). I'll do my best to make ESI vibrant, integrative, joyful, and fun. Thanks for the selfie, Goethe
- Run - don't walk - to your computer to download, read (and cite :-) "Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order" nature.com/articles/s4146… courtesy of @GwilliamsL @JeanRemiKing @AlecMarantz and me. We are excited to see this out.
- I'm pretty tired of big data and definitely ready for big theory. Let's stop collecting so much damn data and use 2015 to think about stuff.
- As scientists @ESI_Frankfurt, we stand in solidarity with our (local & global) colleagues from Iran. Students @ Sharif Uni were injured & arrested on campus. Advocating for human rights, freedom of speech, and supporting scientists everywhere are core values of our community.
- I think I’m on record as being pretty critical, including of brain imaging, but this analysis is “strawmannery” and not a substantive engagement with serious hypotheses, empirical evidence, theory - or theory of science. @Nancy_Kanwisher has a good meta-critique! Unhelpful paperMost brain-imaging studies make 3 questionable assumptions: mental events are localizable, map uniquely to dedicated #brain circuitry, & are independent of larger context. These 19th-century views need an update. New #OpenAccess paper in @TrendsCognSci. 1/ cell.com/trends/cogniti…
