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Rebecca Saxe
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Cognitive Neuroscientist at MIT. 🇨🇦. She/her. Have mostly moved to bluer skies.
saxelab.mit.edu
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Jun 12, 2020
    I aspire to use cognitive neuroscience to understand human thought and motivation, and to be humble, uncompromising, and constructive. Serious inquiry into human nature is not a luxury. No one should be excluded from it by their race, gender, or other accidents of birth.
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Sep 12, 2019
    My MRI Mother and Child has become the focus of a controversy this weekend. Here’s the story. Thread. 1/14
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Jul 8, 2020
    “Am I welcome? At MIT, the answer, unequivocally, is yes.” -MIT president Reif on suing ICE today
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Aug 28, 2023
    We are sharing an open dataset of >300 children, 3–12-years-old, including 64 (neurotypical) children assessed longitudinally and 68 autistic children, each answering >40 ToM questions ranging in difficulty. 10 years of @hil_richardson's and Saxelab's data! Please re-use.
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    Koraima
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    Aug 28, 2023
    Thrilled to share our new pre-print featuring an open dataset of children responses to a #TheoryofMind task!🧐 Ever thought about how kids figure out what you're thinking? Check out our open dataset here osf.io/g5zpv/ and our preprint psyarxiv.com/gczp9/
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Sep 12, 2019
    Replying to @rebecca_saxe @bmhdeen and @heatherlkos
    They have nothing to do with oxytocin, hormones, kissing, or breastfeeding. Fin.
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Jun 19, 2020
    So wild to have Netflix pushing me a picture of my own baby.
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Mar 26, 2020
    We posted a preprint today: “The need to connect: Acute social isolation causes neural craving responses similar to hunger.” Lead author @livia_tomova. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A thread on what we did, what we found, and the story behind it. 1/25
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    The need to connect: Acute social isolation causes neural craving responses similar to hunger
    When people are forced to be isolated from one another, do they crave social interactions in the same way a hungry person craves food? To address this question, we used functional magnetic resonance...
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Apr 10, 2020
    A nice thing at a wild time. I was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.
    Guggenheim Foundation awards fellowships to several local scholars and artists - The Boston Globe
    From bostonglobe.com
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Sep 12, 2019
    Replying to @rebecca_saxe @bmhdeen and @heatherlkos
    The minute he was born, lying on my chest still warm and goopy, I looked into his black eyes for the first time, and I knew: (i) I was deeply inexplicably in love with him, and (ii) as soon as possible, I wanted to scan his brain. 8/14
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Jul 23, 2023
    Last fall @AshleyJ_Thomas and I co-taught a graduate course called 'Tools for Robust Science' at MIT. The syllabus and materials are now all freely available at ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-401-… 🧵 1/7
    Tools for Robust Science | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Jan 28, 2021
    Lila Gleitman's highlights have been giving me a little spark of joy all day. I am also looking forward to reading the paper.
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Jun 5, 2023
    🧵A lot of current AI is obsessed with recognizing emotions from facial expressions — but that’s not how humans do it. Humans make systematic, nuanced predictions of emotions people *will* experience, without ever seeing a face. Paper👇w @DaeHoulihan
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    Emotion prediction as computation over a generative theory of mind
    Abstract. From sparse descriptions of events, observers can make systematic and nuanced predictions of what emotions the people involved will experience. W
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Jan 25, 2019
    Just found a cool paper from 2018. Do you think children in 2010 are MORE or LESS able than children in the 1960s or 1980s to delay gratification?
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    Rebecca Saxe
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    Dec 1, 2020
    I posted my conceptual intro to fMRI, here: cbmm.mit.edu/fmri-bootcamp
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    Matt Wall (@mattwall.bsky.social)
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    Nov 30, 2020
    About once a year I do a two-hour teaching session on fMRI for beginners, for new students. Bit of theory, then a demo of some analysis. Haven't done it this year (obvs) but occurred to me I could do it online and open it out to... well... everyone. Would anyone be interested?