@elijahtramm.bsky.social
Psychology PhD Student at UW-Madison
Studying the evolution and development of complex cognition like language, number, and logic.
Studying the evolution and development of complex cognition like language, number, and logic.
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Nature research paper: Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex
go.nature.com/4v1FDED
go.nature.com/4v1FDED
Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex - Nature
A drawing-like task designed to study compositional generalization identifies a specific neural population in the ventral premotor cortex in primates that encodes action symbols.
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May 22, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Nature research paper: Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex
go.nature.com/4v1FDED
go.nature.com/4v1FDED
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Opportunities to work with some great coworkers, like @elijahtramm.bsky.social @alessandra-silva.bsky.social & Datu from the @henryvilaszoo.bsky.social
March 16, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Opportunities to work with some great coworkers, like @elijahtramm.bsky.social @alessandra-silva.bsky.social & Datu from the @henryvilaszoo.bsky.social
Come work with us! Dr. Ferrigno is a fantastic scientist and mentor, and working in the lab is a truly unique opportunity!
The Cognitive Origins Lab @uwpsych.bsky.social is hiring! We are looking for a full-time Research Specialist (postbac) to work on non-invasive primate + child cognition research. Full-time, 2 years, starts June 2026. Apply here: wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Madison/j...
Research Specialist
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March 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Come work with us! Dr. Ferrigno is a fantastic scientist and mentor, and working in the lab is a truly unique opportunity!
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Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee that could recognize more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died at the age of 49, Japanese researchers have said.
'Genius' chimpanzee Ai dies in Japan at 49
Aside from mastering Chinese characters and the alphabet, Ai could also identify the Arabic numerals from zero to nine and 11 colors, a primatologist said.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee that could recognize more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died at the age of 49, Japanese researchers have said.
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Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
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NSF changed their eligibility requirements for the GRFP a month before the deadline. Students used to be able to apply in their 1st or 2nd year, now only 1st years can apply - excluding an entire cohort of students with no notice. Yet another way this admin is kneecapping American science
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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September 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NSF changed their eligibility requirements for the GRFP a month before the deadline. Students used to be able to apply in their 1st or 2nd year, now only 1st years can apply - excluding an entire cohort of students with no notice. Yet another way this admin is kneecapping American science
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New work with @samcheyette.bsky.social & Susan Carey testing the memory architecture used when learning/producing center-embedded sequences. Adults don't use Push-Down Stacks as is often assumed, instead they rely on a Queue-like memory architecture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Do Humans Use Push‐Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center‐Embedded Sequences?
Complex sequences are ubiquitous in human mental life, structuring representations within many different cognitive domains—natural language, music, mathematics, and logic, to name a few. However, the....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
New work with @samcheyette.bsky.social & Susan Carey testing the memory architecture used when learning/producing center-embedded sequences. Adults don't use Push-Down Stacks as is often assumed, instead they rely on a Queue-like memory architecture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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September 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Another fun #cogsci2025 in the books! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the CO-Lab grad student posters! Alessanda Silva on Number-Space mappings & @elijahtramm.bsky.social on Hierarchical grammar learning in monkeys (and humans). Posters still available through Cog. Sci. or reach out for a copy.
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Another fun #cogsci2025 in the books! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the CO-Lab grad student posters! Alessanda Silva on Number-Space mappings & @elijahtramm.bsky.social on Hierarchical grammar learning in monkeys (and humans). Posters still available through Cog. Sci. or reach out for a copy.
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The remarkable bonobo that humans named Kanzi has died, age 44. During his life he helped researchers learn much more about the capabilities of his species, and by extension about our shared common ancestors.
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
March 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The remarkable bonobo that humans named Kanzi has died, age 44. During his life he helped researchers learn much more about the capabilities of his species, and by extension about our shared common ancestors.
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...