Assistant Professor at @CityUHongKong. Essentially, a "mysterian," but trying to understand what all this is about for the fun of it 🇪🇸🇹🇷🇬🇧🇭🇰
Joined May 2011
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"What is the use of knowing about everything else when you do not know yet who you are?" - Ramana Maharshi
📢 New paper out!
What happens to bilingual language control when our attention is divided?
Our results suggest that cognitive load doesn’t simply make control worse—it changes how bilinguals manage their languages.
Open access 🔓 link.springer.com/article/10… 👇🧵
⚡ When they could choose the language themselves, they adapted differently: they used the L2 when it was readily available, but fell back on the L1 when it was not.
In short:
➡️ No choice = prepare in advance
➡️ Choice = adapt on the fly
Intelligence is the extent to which we progress towards our life goals (relative to our circumstances)
Beauty is not objective–(this is my own statement)
By four months of age, babies look longer at patterns that adults judge to be beautiful. This suggests that, like our love of faces, the aesthetic sense may be built into the human mind from the start.
stevestewartwilliams.com/p/a…
What role does culture play in how we understand emotions? 🤔In our new study, we show that a society's attitudes towards the future shape how emotion concepts are organized semantically—across 15 languages. 📢Open Access paper here: nature.com/articles/s41599-0…
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Critically, the effect holds after controlling for language family, script, and religion. None of these confounds explains our results.
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AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk?
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…