Living outside the model organism reality-distortion field
@CousinAmygdala@mastodon.social
Jul 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The hippocampus does NOTHING.
It is the appendix of the brain. advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/29/e…
"If the hippocampus is critical for [transitive inference] & the formation of ordered representations, selective hippocampal lesions should impair monkeys’ ability to infer the relation of the nonadjacent pairs and should abolish the [symbolic distance effect]."
THEY DIDN'T
Jun 18, 2020 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
So @ImHardcory and @EPoe187 have retracted their article. This is a start, but the methodological and data quality issues they cite are jus the tip of the iceberg. The data certainly didn’t limit the racist conclusions they drew from it.
I am sure they will enjoy and reap the benefits of martyrdom within the conservative circles they frequent but neither has any place in #academia. Hopefully @NYUStern will do the right thing. Pretty pathetic of @PsychScience to not be proactive & force this decision themselves.
