David Colaço
@davidcolaco.bsky.social
Philosopher of science/neuroscience/cog science. DFG Postdoc at LMU Munich, MCMP. I make pizza. He/Him
https://sites.google.com/site/colacodavidj/
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The minimal cognition workshop begins now:
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The minimal cognition workshop begins now:
Here is the abstract:
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Here is the abstract:
Next week is the Workshop on Minimal Cognition at the University of Valencia.
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Next week is the Workshop on Minimal Cognition at the University of Valencia.
I will be speaking at TU Berlin's "Relating explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience" this February:
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I will be speaking at TU Berlin's "Relating explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience" this February:
Here is the abstract:
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here is the abstract:
In Hannover for my talk on conceptual conflict
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In Hannover for my talk on conceptual conflict
Going back through my book chapter on sensational scientific claims.
Here is a choice quote from McConnell (the cannibal memory person), published in Esquire:
Here is a choice quote from McConnell (the cannibal memory person), published in Esquire:
January 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Going back through my book chapter on sensational scientific claims.
Here is a choice quote from McConnell (the cannibal memory person), published in Esquire:
Here is a choice quote from McConnell (the cannibal memory person), published in Esquire:
My paper, " On consistently assessing alleged mnemonic systems (Or, why isn’t immune memory “really” memory?)," has been accepted for publication in The Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
Here is the abstract:
Here is the abstract:
January 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My paper, " On consistently assessing alleged mnemonic systems (Or, why isn’t immune memory “really” memory?)," has been accepted for publication in The Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
Here is the abstract:
Here is the abstract:
For scholars who get popular press buzz that comes across to the scholar as a misrepresentation of their work, I petition that you start posting this image with no additional explanation:
January 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
For scholars who get popular press buzz that comes across to the scholar as a misrepresentation of their work, I petition that you start posting this image with no additional explanation:
Guess what year this popular press article is from:
January 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Guess what year this popular press article is from:
Here is the abstract:
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Here is the abstract:
Drawing on the recent study of non-neuronal memory (see post below), I note a passage from one chapter of my book project, in which I discuss research on memory transfer via heart transplants (research that I suspect will be brought up again in light of this study):
November 11, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Drawing on the recent study of non-neuronal memory (see post below), I note a passage from one chapter of my book project, in which I discuss research on memory transfer via heart transplants (research that I suspect will be brought up again in light of this study):
The first image, taken from the Washington Post in 1961, for my talk at ESPP today:
July 2, 2024 at 10:59 AM
The first image, taken from the Washington Post in 1961, for my talk at ESPP today:
Some of the international memory reading group attendees together at IPM4
June 28, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Some of the international memory reading group attendees together at IPM4
Reading Hebb talk about memory transfer is quite something
May 14, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Reading Hebb talk about memory transfer is quite something
Thanks to @thebusyowl.bsky.social for this photo of me talking about memory transfer via cannibalism and the idea of sensational scientific claims.
March 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Thanks to @thebusyowl.bsky.social for this photo of me talking about memory transfer via cannibalism and the idea of sensational scientific claims.
The Worm Runner's Digest only gets weirder once researchers attempt to study memory transfer in rats. I am surprised and perplexed by the sheer number of these cartoons in a peer-reviewed academic journal (I don't know whether to put scare quotes, and if so, where)
February 19, 2024 at 10:44 PM
The Worm Runner's Digest only gets weirder once researchers attempt to study memory transfer in rats. I am surprised and perplexed by the sheer number of these cartoons in a peer-reviewed academic journal (I don't know whether to put scare quotes, and if so, where)
Report of Angela Davis speaking out against the work of James McConnell, 1974
February 13, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Report of Angela Davis speaking out against the work of James McConnell, 1974
McConnell wrote an article for a music publication about getting sent a pipe bomb from the Unabomber:
February 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
McConnell wrote an article for a music publication about getting sent a pipe bomb from the Unabomber:
I have now acquired some of the behaviorism spoof articles that B.F. Skinner published in the Worm Runner's Digest. This image is a taste:
February 9, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I have now acquired some of the behaviorism spoof articles that B.F. Skinner published in the Worm Runner's Digest. This image is a taste:
Talking about memory errors in Taipei yesterday
December 30, 2023 at 12:01 AM
Talking about memory errors in Taipei yesterday
My paper "When remediating one artifact results in another: Control, confounders, and correction" has been accepted for publication in HPLS. Here is the abstract:
December 21, 2023 at 3:24 PM
My paper "When remediating one artifact results in another: Control, confounders, and correction" has been accepted for publication in HPLS. Here is the abstract:
@sarahrobins.bsky.social and I have had our paper "Why have 'revolutionary' tools found purchase in memory science?" accepted for publication in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. Here is the abstract:
December 15, 2023 at 1:54 PM
@sarahrobins.bsky.social and I have had our paper "Why have 'revolutionary' tools found purchase in memory science?" accepted for publication in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences. Here is the abstract:
Check out my talk, "Searching for cognitive errors in unconventional systems," this Friday:
November 21, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Check out my talk, "Searching for cognitive errors in unconventional systems," this Friday: