Stanford Psychology Podcast

YC's paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40215238/
YC's lab website: mcnlab.uchicago.edu

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161 - Yuan Chang (YC) Leong: Emotional arousal & dynamic brain connectivity

NEW EPISODE OUT🧠!! In this episode, Su
@sudkrc.bsky.social chats with Dr. YC Leong @ycleong.bsky.social
of The University of Chicago on how dynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal while watching Sherlock🕵️🧐
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Signatures of human-like processing in Transformer forward passes Modern AI models are increasingly being used as theoretical tools to study human cognition. One dominant approach is to evaluate whether human-derived measures are predicted by a model's output: that ...

Jenn’s paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.14107
Jenn’s lab website:https://www.glintlab.org/

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159 - Jennifer Hu: From Human Minds to Artificial Minds

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In this episode, Su @sudkrc.bsky.social chats with Dr. Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social of Johns Hopkins University, comparing how LLMs and humans process information in real-time when solving cognitive tasks.
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159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series)

NEW EPISODE!! 💫 (and the first in our new series, Psychologist in the Wild) Elizabeth
@imelizabeth.bsky.social
chats with Dr. Dawn Finzi on her scientific journey, from researching human visual perception to becoming a Machine Learning Engineer! LISTEN NOW🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/1TTH...

Social Skill Training with Large Language Models People rely on social skills like conflict resolution to communicate effectively and to thrive in both work and personal life. However, practice environments for social skills are typically out of rea...

Diyi’s paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.04204
Diyi’s lab website: cs.stanford.edu/~diyiy/group...

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NEW EPISODE OUT🎙️🤖!!
In this episode, Su @sudkrc.bsky.social chats with Dr. Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social @stanfordnlp.bsky.social @stanfordhai.bsky.social on socially aware language technologies and her recent work "Social Skill Training with LLMs"
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A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence - Nature Neuroscience The authors measured high-resolution fMRI activity from eight individuals who saw and memorized thousands of annotated natural images over 1 year. This massive dataset enables new paths of inquiry in ...

Discussed Papers in Podcast:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kendrick’s website: cvnlab.net

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150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider Stanford Psychology Podcast · Episode

HELLO Bluesky! First post here to share our NEWEST episode! This week, Elizabeth @imelizabeth.bsky.social chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay on the groundbreaking Natural Scenes Dataset and discusses the behind-the-scenes considerations that went into its creation.

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