Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, attention, pupillometry, and working memory. Developer of OpenSesame and other open-source scientific software. Writer of short stories.
We show that eye-movements are selected based on effort minimization - finally final in
@eLife
eLife's digest:
https://elifesciences.org/digests/97760/a-move-you-can-afford
& the 'convincing & important' paper:
https://elifesciences.org/articles/97760
I consider this my coolest project ever!
Thanks a lot to Damian Koevoet, Laura Van Zantwijk, Marnix Naber, @sebastiaan Stefan Van der Stigchel
“Een wereld vol denkers” is non-fiction and will be published Sep 2025 by Uitgeverij Balans. An English translation is not (yet) planned, but expressions of interest will make this much more likely! Illustrations by @theodanes https://www.uitgeverijbalans.nl/boeken/een-wereld-vol-denkers/
Through these kinds of questions, I explore the many different ways of thinking that surround us. This is especially important now that, with the rise of advanced AI, we are dealing for the first time in history with a new form of thinking that we barely understand. How can we deal with that?! 4/5
Is #consciousness something that you either have (like a human adult) or don’t have (like a rock), or can something or someone also have a little bit of consciousness? And if so, does advanced AI have a little bit of consciousness, and how can you even know? 3/5
Can a #bumblebee fear for her life? When a #buttercup follows the sun, can you say that she perceives the sun? And how can it be that #octopuses and sea otters somewhat resemble each other in their behavior, while they are separated by half a billion years of evolution? 2/5
😊🌟✒️ Proud 📖 announcement! ✒️🌟😊 Over the past year, I have been working on “Een wereld vol denkers” (“A world of thinkers”), an exploration of the #thoughts, #feelings, and #consciousness of humans, animals, plants, and artificial #intelligence (AI). 1/5 #popsci #psychology
Wat ik zelf heel leuk vind aan het boek: elk hoofdstuk begint met een anecdote met een toepasselijke illustratie van
@theodanes. Zo hoort de illustratie van de hommel bij dit stukje. (Screenshot van mijn tekstverwerker.) 🌸🐝🌧️ #eenwereldvoldenkers #psychologie #wetenschap
"Een wereld vol denkers" is literaire non-fictie Nederlands geschreven, en verschijnt komende september (2025) bij Uitgeverij Balans. Met prachtige illustraties van @theodanes! https://www.uitgeverijbalans.nl/boeken/een-wereld-vol-denkers/ 5/5
Aan de hand van dit soort vragen en voorbeelden schets ik een beeld van de verschillende vormen van denken en doen waarmee we de wereld delen. Dat is juist nu belangrijk, omdat we met de opkomst van AI te maken hebben met een nieuwe vorm van denken die we nog maar nauwelijks begrijpen. 4/5
Is bewustzijn iets wat je dan wel hebt (zoals een volwassen mens) of niet hebt (zoals een steen), of kan iets of iemand ook een klein beetje bewustzijn hebben? En zo ja, heeft geavanceerde AI dan een klein beetje bewustzijn, en hoe kan je dat eigenlijk weten? 3/5
Ik probeer antwoorden te vinden op talloze fascinerende vragen. Kan een hommel vrezen voor zijn leven? Als een boterbloem gedurende de dag de zon volgt, neemt de boterbloem de zon dan waar? Hoe is het mogelijk dat octopussen en zeeotters in hun gedrag wel wat van elkaar weg hebben? 2/5
😊🌟✒️ Trotse aankondiging! ✒️🌟😊 Het afgelopen jaar heb ik gewerkt aan het boek "Een wereld vol denkers". In dit boek ga ik op onderzoek naar de gedachten, de gevoelens en het bewustzijn van #mensen, #dieren, #planten en kunstmatige intelligentie (#AI). #psychologie #wetenschap 1/5
@naught101 The most important check is whether the AI grader agrees with human graders at least as much as human graders agree with each other. (So this means that in this stage two human graders also look at a subset of the answers.) Students are also allowed to flag answers that they feel were incorrectly graded by the AI. And finally there are some psychometric checks that you can do to verify the quality of an exam, such as how well the response to one question predicts the response on the remaining questions.
Many people are understandably hesitant when it comes to using AI in high-stakes situations. But when done responsibly and transparently, there are enormous benefits. That's our aim with Heymans! 3/3
We did extensive quality checks with complete transparency towards the students. Things went smoothly and we detected few issues. Students were happy and we were able to offer a far better examination than we would have without AI, in which case we would have had to resort to multiple choice. 2/3
Tomorrow I'll visit the #UniversityOfAmsterdam
to talk about #Heymans
, our @universityofgroningen project for using AI to improve the quality of teaching. We recently conducted a first pilot with AI grading of an open-ended exam for a large course with a total of 4,300 written answers. 1/3
A brief primer 👶 for how to run online experiments with #OpenSesame, OSWeb and MindProbe/ JATOS! https://osf.io/4qcmd/ 🌐
With Wouter Kruijne at Bernoulli Institute retreat to talk about Heymans, the #opensource #AI tool for #education that we're developing (and using!) at @universityofgroningen
Join us at the VVSOR symposium on AI in teaching and research! I'll be speaking about Heymans, the AI teaching tool that we are developing at @universityofgroningen Nov 28 in Utrecht, NL 👉https://www.vvsor.nl/social-sciences/events/ai-day/
Interesting interview with Sebastiaan Mathot @sebastiaan, assistant professor at our university's Department of Experimental Psychology. He talks about his journey in developing OpenSesame – an open-source experiment builder.
#interview #openscience #OpenSource #software #psychology #socialsciences
