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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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Congrats for opening the lab!

02.10.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Birthday to you !

29.09.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But people with spatial neglect do have problems imagining in a specific visual field (e.g., an experiment with Piazza del Duomo, Bisiach and Luzzatti, 1978).

17.09.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, if the replication is done in non-English-speaking countries, not all languages may have equivalent terms for β€œsmashed,” β€œhit,” or β€œbumped...

09.09.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you give an example of a bug the LLM found? Did you have to first explain what the code was intended to do?

29.08.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so sorry for your loss, Anil. You wrote so warmly about your mother in your book.

22.08.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks. Yeah… for now, LLMs are undoubtedly limited. I’d say it’s not about thinking for you. In some cases where I benefited, it was about getting hints (e.g., a direction of thought I hadn’t considered before). Just one more way to challenge yourself.

19.08.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Asking an LLM to critique your research ideas or to search for confounds in the planned experiment, might also occasionally be helpful.

18.08.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed, Figs. 1 and 2 are insightful. We are using social animations, and it was illuminating to learn the extent the activation patterns vary across the paradigms.

17.08.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Psychology - YouTube

Maybe this playlist I encountered would be useful for you:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

16.08.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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‘ 2    πŸ” 2    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‘ 1    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