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projecting meaning into the gaps between sentences

September 30, 2026

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A hardcore cognitive-science effort to study the poetics of meaning creation in action... hot off the press at Acta Psychologica.

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Like This and Like That, Things Change

Hot off the press... We have crosstalk when we judge one thing while we're also in the process of processing another. It's an intriguing story, more than twenty years in the making. I once liked a paper by Awh and Jonides, and back in the days in Wellington, I played with it for a while, taking the ideas from spatial attention and applying them to other types of visual-selective attention... Now we picked up the thread, and turned it into a value-based story.

The Limits of Control

We studied the limits of metacognitive control ... a bit of a Jim Jarmusch title, not of course by accident. It's a subtle story, but one I like a lot... about how we can track when we need to do better, during perceptual decision-making, and how we put in an effort to do so, but then not manage to improve performance. It's a double punch: we feel the stress, we try something, and yet it doesn't work. Yikes. We would have been better off not caring. I'll call it one of the little nightmares of goodwill. Maybe I feel like writing a novel about it. Maybe I'm already working on it.

KU Science Salon on 15 November

One talks to the other...

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