#cogsci2026 — Public Fediverse posts

the next talk in the symposium on (In)efficiency in communication and language was by Helena Miton who spoke about efficiency in visual communication systems - ranging from writing systems through to heraldry (!)

this work has, for example, found that across 27 different writing systems from all over the world, Zipf's law holds- that is, the most frequent characters are also the simplest

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027723001610

heraldry bucks this trend!
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220793

#cogsci2026 #linguistics #philosophy

the next talk in the symposium on (In)efficiency in communication and language was by Helena Miton who spoke about efficiency in visual communication systems - ranging from writing systems through to heraldry (!)

this work has, for example, found that across 27 different writing systems from all over the world, Zipf's law holds- that is, the most frequent characters are also the simplest

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027723001610

heraldry bucks this trend!
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220793

#cogsci2026 #linguistics #philosophy

second #cogsci2026 talk for me is Melissa Berthet on efficiency in nonhuman animal communication systems in a symposium on '(In)efficiency in communication and language'

the bulk of the talk was on attempts to decode the meanings of Titi monkey calls, in particular what call combinations mean

here an example of that work:

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.aav3991

#linguistics #philosophy #cogsci

second #cogsci2026 talk for me is Melissa Berthet on efficiency in nonhuman animal communication systems in a symposium on '(In)efficiency in communication and language'

the bulk of the talk was on attempts to decode the meanings of Titi monkey calls, in particular what call combinations mean

here an example of that work:

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.aav3991

#linguistics #philosophy #cogsci

first talk today #cogsci2026 Judith Fan’s Gleitman Prize lecture - it was a beautiful overview of her work trying to understand the way humans build and use cognitive tools

here a recent, publicly available talk by Judith Fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3XJT9YKpM

https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/

first talk today #cogsci2026 Judith Fan’s Gleitman Prize lecture - it was a beautiful overview of her work trying to understand the way humans build and use cognitive tools

here a recent, publicly available talk by Judith Fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3XJT9YKpM

https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/

Workshop day for the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, this year in Rio…

took part in a really interesting workshop on rational belief revision and rational polarisation

https://rational-revision.github.io/#schedule

#cogsci2026

Workshop day for the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, this year in Rio…

took part in a really interesting workshop on rational belief revision and rational polarisation

https://rational-revision.github.io/#schedule

#cogsci2026