Dylan Smith / is on Nostr

Education: #instruction #equity #exceptionality
Psychology: #behaviour #development #cognition
Also: #philosophyofscience #historyofscience #neuroscience

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2024-06-21 16:38:35

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@npub1skv…aky3
Cool!
A quick question: In your readings, did you get a sense of whether one or the other (ipsilateral or contralateral control) was phylogenetically first to appear?

2024-04-22 17:40:39

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@npub1skv…aky3
Nicely said.
I think you're a darn good writer, Ms. Rust.

2024-01-24 04:25:01

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@npub1skv…aky3
Is it a contraction to eliminate a gymnastic tongue movement?

2023-12-20 02:24:05

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@npub15sw…x855
One of many possible starting points, if you don't mind going back to infancy. And one of my favs...
Flom, R. & Pick, A. D. (2007). Increasing specificity and the development of joint visual attention. In R. Flom, K. Lee, & D. Muir (Eds.), Gaze following: Its development and significance (pp. 95-113). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

2023-11-15 01:50:36

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@npub1skv…aky3 @npub1j6w…9ltk
From Krishna Shenoy’s 2013 talk (1:03:51 mark):
“I don’t know scientifically what to do with one neuron anymore because of these challenges we're running in terms of relating it... It’s about looking at populations of neurons and how they relate. This isn’t representational bashing, at all. It’s simply that the data don’t largely get captured by that type of perspective. We see far more neurons doing idiosyncratic things than we see doing the canonical things.”

2023-11-08 00:32:50

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@npub15sw…x855
In my sophomore year of psych, I learned that the inflection point on each side of the normal curve (where it stops turning up and starts turning down, or vice-versa) marks one standard deviation from the mean, and I thought that was magical.

2023-09-28 01:36:49

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@npub1skv…aky3
In education, the Hedgehog concept — as presented in James Collins superb book, “Good to Great” — has been embraced.
But there's nuance. My read of it is that ambitious up-and-comers are well-advised to build a hedgehog strength. However, the senior staffers who work in team to run a school district tend to be generalists. They aren't polymaths who are superior at everything but instead tend to be superior in 1 or 2 areas while also being *very* strong in many/most other areas.

2023-09-17 16:22:27

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@npub1skv…aky3 @npub1qe8…4vky @npub19un…gacg
I'm offering a simple sketch of canalization to clarify the well-rounded academic use of the term, the optimism it typically packs, and perhaps provide a little perspective on the suitability of applying the term to describe some forms of psychopathology.
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2023-08-11 15:04:45

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@npub1skv…aky3
What about credit? We share ideas on here ranging from zany to semi-polished. What if you posted this tomorrow:
"We might get a broad read on the underpinnings of consciousness if we devised a design to parse out voluntary vs. involuntary inputs factoring in eye movements to relevant vs. irrelevant space during different states of consciousness."
A year later, Barney Rubble (2024) publishes major findings and admits he got the idea on Mastadon.
Should you have received credit?