4E Cognition and Computational corpus linguistics consultant. Embeddings ≠ Meaning
Wisconsin, USA
Joined October 2010
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Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
During COVID, behavioral scientists studied why some people weren't worried enough and didn't comply enough. But some of those "problematic" people were pretty reasonable. We ask what behavioral scientists missed, why, and how we can do better next time:
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
Getting citations right:
(1) There’s no central repository of bibliographic data. Google Scholar is terrible, I used it in my first ever paper, and got an angry email from a Professor. Apparently the GS record scanned the front page of his paper and added the editors in,
Sad news to hear my colleague Irene Mittelberg passed last week. She was a very creative and brilliant gesture researcher linguistlist.org/issues/36/3…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years thetransmitter.org/funding/n…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
A Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries finds that decision-makers willfully ignore inconvenient information. Learning about the negative consequences of their choices increases prosociality, especially among guilt-prone individuals. @JF_Schul
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I have a new post about gaslighting and what it means raybecker.substack.com/p/tho…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
Looking for @theabcdstudy fMRI timeseries data? It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @DrDamienFair and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/do…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
We have put up all slide decks on the tutorial website: llm-guardrails-security.gith… 🥳🥳🥳 Although I was only able to deliver the tutorial remotely due to visa constraints, I was really thrilled to learn that our tutorial received a quite full room of audience for the entire 3.5 hr! We were very happy to receive comments from the audience like "I didn't even get bored or distracted listen to the whole 3 hours because it was so engaging."
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
We’re rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they’ll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage.
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Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
An international team of researchers has proposed an overall definition of questionable research practices (QRPs) and published a comprehensive list of them—as well as ways to detect and prevent them. @nagyt #PsychScience
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Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering.
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
Call for Submissions! Behavioral Medicine: Special Issue on Terminated Grants.
Submit by June 30 at 5PM ET. Learn more here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, @GrattonCaterina et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect.
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I was inspired by the The Daily Show's segment on Monday to write this post relating some work that I did a few years ago with Sabina Tabacaru (@SabinaTabacaru) on the meaning of the phrase "raising eyebrows" . May 12th definitely raised some eyebrows open.substack.com/pub/raybec…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
Cooked a new paper 😎
Full text coming along
Here’s a sneak peak
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
There's a PhD opening in Shervin's (@neuroprinciples) new lab at TU Dresden! I think this is one of the best opportunities to work on computational cogsci/neuro. Find out more: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Ray Becker (@raybecker.bsky.social) retweeted
A recent paper led by amazing Demet, in collaboration with Aslı Özyürek! @DemetOzer11 @ozyurek_a
Here is our new OA article published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review w/my amazing collaborators @ozyurek_a @GoksunTilbe. We showed that spatial WM is particularly critical for processing gestures that complement speech (i.e. demonstratives in speech).
doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-0…
