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How does a marmoset know which vocalizations are his own?
How can an individual correctly determine that the perceived sounds are indeed self-produced, rather than coming from an external source?
Jul 7, 20245 min read
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Variational Autoencoders, UMAP and birdsong
Using the paper Goffinet et al., 2021 and birdsong data, I explain how Variational Autoencoders and UMAP works.
Feb 3, 20241 min read
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Talking to a crow will be possible in 50 years
“The Dr. Dolittle Challenge - can you build an AI that communicates with animals”? Corvids, neuroscience, and multimodal AI, can handle it.
Aug 10, 20238 min read
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Brain-body size divergence in birds: An evolutionary, morphological and ecological case
Named after Edward Cope, Cope’s rule states that species in mammalian clades tend to increase in size over the Cenozoic era (Hone and Benton
Jan 16, 202313 min read
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Understanding religious violence beyond the 'modernity-religion' dichotomy
When trying to understand religious violence, Western media often adopts a substantive and private conceptualization of religion.
Dec 1, 20227 min read
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The evolution of the posterior cingulate cortex: Landmarks, autobiographical memories, and self
Many have pointed out that the neuronal dynamics in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex enabling spatial navigation, may also facilitate...
Oct 26, 202234 min read
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Getting to know AI
‘Select all squares with traffic lights’ is a common online prompt to prove that you’re not a robot. It is also a typical task in machine...
May 9, 20223 min read
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Shooting your shot: Using reinforcement learning approaches to study place learning
Would you be able to find a café after just one previous visit? The answer for human and non-human animals is yes: they have the ability...
Feb 9, 20223 min read
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Foucault, social media and climate change deniers: Disciplining abnormality through internet memes
Internet memes about climate change deniers are typically seen as harmless. Yet, when understanding the denialist critique of climate...
Mar 1, 202118 min read
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What is real and what is observable are not the same
Let's imagine the following thought experiment. A primary school child finds out that besides all the other colours she is aware of,...
Feb 27, 202110 min read
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Drop-outs: Not just a Problem in Schools
Are drop-out rates in therapy the new “elephant in the room”? No, it’s probably worse; the elephant has been standing there for decades....
Nov 5, 20205 min read
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