#AcademicRunPlaylist - 12/19/24

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Ben Waber
December 19, 2024

The sun setting behind the forest on the right bank of the Charles River on a clear day. The water is calm but rippling, with a partially submerged tree in the middle scattering the ripples into an interleaving pattern. Forest lines the left bank as well, lit with a warm glow

I had to wait around during various errands today, but at least I got out for a brief walk and was able to listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting talk by Geert van Calster on the EU's recent trade defense instrument updates at the UCL Faculty of Laws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NQ_tB6ONg

Next were talks from the Psychonomic Society Seminar Series:

Rain Bosworth - learning about language from deaf and hearing speakers who use one spoken and one signed language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw48BoEitas

Karla Evans - gist meaning extraction in radiological images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cOhXAPfcc

Barbara Tversky - how action shapes thought, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwHDFUvjLM

Karen Schloss - expectations about the meaning of color https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RntPZeZpoHE

Anna-Lena Schubert - why higher information processing speed facilitates reasoning, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dA-hlb2W4

Julia Strand - dangers of conflating listening effort with other phenomena, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebj3JOdv73g

Jeremy Wolfe - effects of target prevalence in visual search and decision making, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWljF5ik5eQ

Next was the Psychonomic Society's 2019 symposium on metacognitive experience and memory with a ton of rapid-fire talks. I highly recommend the keynote by Judith Kroll on how bilingualism reveals networks that shape the mind and brain, with some incredible behavioral experiments and neuroimaging

Next were talks from the Psychonomic Society's 2018 workshop:

Craig Chapman - analyzing and comparing behaviors over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ea1tg0-28c&t=6s

Antonia Hamilton - methods and a framework for studies of human social interaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT8e5FB4N-U&t=1s

Tim Welsh - developing embodied interfaces to improve spatial skills, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGzDEIiIGc

Last was "All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker. The title here is quite accurate - this book does run through and mostly eviscerate a bit over 20 myths about Native Americans. The authors work through these myths mostly chronologically, from the migration paths of Native American ancestors to recent myths around casino wealth, sports mascots, and more. If you want a quick grasp of how to refute many common tropes thrown around today this is the most concise volume out there https://www.beacon.org/All-the-Real-Indians-Died-Off-P1224.aspx