Associate Professor of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Macquarie University interested in sensorimotor control and motor learning.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined December 2017
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New piece in The Conversation with Mike Richardson and colleagues: AI learns from the products of thought, but misses the process. When we outsource our thinking, we risk losing that process too.
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Interesting set of talks at this year's SAPoLSN "Philosophy Meets the Life Sciences" Workshop at Macquarie University. Glad to be an invited speaker.
Australia’s erosion of peer review | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Between 1985--2023, MIT's faculty grew 9%. Administrative staff grew 189%. 📈 Why? In new @PNASNews paper, we use dynamical system model to show administrative bloat can emerge without empire-building--just from well-intentioned problem-solving gone awry pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
Model organisms promise insights into the human brain only if they’re representative. This new paper argues that convenience-driven choices weaken extrapolation in neuroscience, and highlights growing calls for comparative, evolution-informed approaches. link.springer.com/article/10…
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Our piece arguing that all scientists need to engage with the public if we are to turn back the anti-science tide is out in NatNeuro today: rdcu.be/eKV8Y; @MichaelLouisPl1 @aaronbatista KatiGothard, KarenParker, @doristsao @zivwilliamslab
Brian was a wonderful PhD supervisor and even more importantly a wonderful person. He cared deeply about people, science, and how minds and computation fit in the world. His intellectual contributions will have a lasting impact across many fields. He will be greatly missed.
We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Professor and Dean Emeritus Brian Cantwell Smith, a distinguished scholar and former Dean of the Faculty of Information. We extend our condolences to his family, colleagues, students, and all who knew him.
ALT Brian Cantwell Smith - Professor and Dean Emeritus
The field still doesn't fully understand the impact of uncertainty on motor learning including the factors that modulate its influence. In this recently published paper, we show that practice schedule matters. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Good news! Our review is now open access! Read it and let us know what you think! Sensorimotor Challenges in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Theoretically-Oriented Review - Christopher L. Hewitson, Matthew J. Crossley, John Cartmill, David M. Kaplan, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
So glad this is finally out. New review from our research group on sensorimotor challenges in minimally invasive surgery. In our review, we make sense of a fragmented literature by drawing on concepts and principles from the field of human motor learning.
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New commentary from Wendy Higgins, @Robert_M_Ross, etc. on Goodhart’s “law”: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Proxy failure and poor measurement practices in psychological science | Behavioral and Brain Sciences bit.ly/3Kf2I1f
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The evolution of the nervous system may have followed multiple paths and risen independently in two early lineages of animals, according to a Science study in comb jellies.
Check out that research from last year: scim.ag/6yy #ScienceMagArchives
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People around the world have high levels of trust in scientists, and most want researchers to get more involved in policymaking, finds a global survey with more than 70,000 participants go.nature.com/3SXQ8IF
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1/ Today in Science, we train a neural net from scratch through the eyes and ears of one child. The model learns to map words to visual referents, showing how grounded language learning from just one child's perspective is possible with today's AI tools. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Great work from PhD student Wendy Higgins and team!
1/6: Published today in Clinical Psychology Review…
We examined validity reporting practices for the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) across 1461 studies, which revealed serious concerns about the validity of test scores. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…