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Vadim Axelrod

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PI at Bar-Ilan University (Cognitive Neuroscience) https://www.axelrodlab.org/

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Thank you! @college-de-france.fr archive, permitting to watch your lectures recorded 15 years ago, is truly outstanding.

04.08.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear Stan, if you record it (and upload afterwards), it could be awesome for people around the globe...

23.07.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm very sorry to hear that, Jonathan. Wishing you a speedy and full recovery!

19.07.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, well deserved!

01.07.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Completely burned-down labs...

15.06.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a good question...
Those individuals have probably completed the VVIQ more than once in their lives. However, if the test-retest reliability of the VVIQ is good, then it’s probably not a major issue.

14.06.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When they decrease the font size, it seems as though the people who design this stuff are too young to take into account that vision deteriorates with age β€” and many researchers aren’t that young...

14.06.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From our perspective, it's obviously great that there are people willing to participate for free.. I’ve run some experiments on MTurk, where money is the only incentive. So, at Aphantasia Network has access to a large sample size, though the participants there are not entirely naΓ―ve.

14.06.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aphantasia Network Β· Image Free Thinking A place to discover and learn about aphantasia

There were 35,467 participants from aphantasia.com. The authors do not mention whether the participants were paid, so does this mean that people on the site are willing to take part in experiments just for fun...

14.06.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In Israel, April-September there is not single day without sun...

11.06.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!

04.06.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It may also learn from your own requests. I now asked it to give me references on one of research themes I interacted with it previously. The refs and biblio details were correct. When I did the same request from account which had not made cognitive requests previously, the references were wrong.

29.05.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once they solve hallucinations with references, it will be difficult (or even impossible) to know whether the scientific writing was generated by a human or not. So, the way it works now offer some advantages πŸ˜€

28.05.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

First reference by Addis, Schacter et al., from 2019 also does not seem to exist. Donna Addis & Daniel Schacter pursued this line of research about a decade earlier...

27.05.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The hardest cut: Penfield and the fight for his sister In 1935, world renowned neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield published three remarkable case studies describing the psychological effects of frontal lobe surgery. They remain a fascinating insight into the…

"The experience had a profound impact on Penfield, who was inspired to found the Montreal Institute of Neurology, then, as now, one of the world’s leading centres for brain treatment and research."
mindhacks.com/2007/06/28/t...

17.05.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so sorry for everything you're going through these days...
Good luck with the appeal!

24.04.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why would researchers submit there their papers? It looks like a lack of solidarity with a team of very respectful people who resigned. At the end, it's our common goal to have publication fees meaningful. I personally do not submit and I do not think will agree to review there.

26.02.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Men was put in orbit by USSR thanks to Nazi's developed V2 (German scientists were imprisoned and worked for USSR after the WW2).

14.02.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I see that virtual registration is not available.
Any chance that it will be reopened ?

21.01.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think an appeal might have chances if you can prove that the reviewer was wrong or/and biased.

14.01.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To give good instructions to AI you also probably better know how to program yourself. Beyond code writing per se, it is important that students know good coding practices, for example to use the debugger (I was surprised how many do not). And all this assuming that the AI code is 100% correct.

13.01.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Data analysis does end with initial code writing - even if AI writes the code, you still need to work with this code later. E.g, you probably will prefer to make some changes yourself. So, you would like students to know how to do that correctly.

13.01.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting, thanks for this information!

22.12.2024 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I see, thank you a lot for the information. Prolific is believed to be better than mTurk. But one should still be very cautious...

22.12.2024 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which software do you use to collect such data? I assume that it supports accepting responses via speech. Is the file recorded locally and then uploaded or recorded on the fly within the website page? Thanks!

22.12.2024 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just wonder how do you know that they used chatbots? How long were the answers, required & those they gave ?

22.12.2024 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for pointing out!

21.12.2024 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was the data 3T or 7T - I could not understand from the paper. Do you? Originally, NORDIC was devised for high-field fMRI.

21.12.2024 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A high resolution 7-Tesla resting-state fMRI test-retest dataset with cognitive and physiological measures Here we present a test-retest dataset of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data acquired at rest. 22 participants were scanned during two sessions spaced one week apart. Each session includ...

Here they had two scan one week apart:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

In HCP 7T they also had two scans, but their timing it not clear (in 3T, I think they were on consecutive days). Anyway, you can verify this in the HCP mail list.
www.humanconnectome.org/hcp-protocol...

14.12.2024 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But incremental paper can also contain nonsense. How would you tackle with that? Even today, the journals like MDPI, substantially increased the number of published papers. One never knows whether the paper their can be trusted - at least one needs to read it closely. You propose to expand this..

13.12.2024 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0