Artem Kaznatcheev

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From the School of Computer Science and Department of Psychology at McGill University, I marvel at the world through algorithmic lenses. My specific interests are in quantum computing, evolutionary game theory, modern evolutionary synthesis, and theoretical cognitive science. Previously I was at the Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo and a visitor to the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.

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Sep 12	comment	At what point does a complex become pathological? @LitheOhm Some other Jung-related questions that might be of interest: 1, 2, 3. If you are planning to use this site to learn more about your hobby, then consider this advice.
Sep 12	comment	What's being challenged in our mind when playing games? @JoeyGreen At least focus your question on one game (or type of game) for which some research has been done. Here is a random paper to get you started.
Sep 11	comment	Why do some individuals enjoy watching horror movies? This question does not meet our standards of initial research since it is easily answerable by the obvious search query (like 'appeal of horror films'). This SE is for scientific questions about psychology, neuroscience, and other cognitive sciences, as such we expect our questions to be informed and framed in a scientific way when possible.
Sep 10	comment	Why do humans prefer symmetrical arrangement of objects? @JeromyAnglim I am not sure if adding 'evolution' as a tag is an appropriate edit. Although you provided an answer from the evolutionary perspective, it is not clear if that was the only intent of the OP's question. Maybe he meant 'why' in the mechanistic as opposed to teleological sense? Also, do we really need a Platonic 'beauty' tag? Wouldn't something like 'design' (in the sense of interior, fashion, user-experience) serve just as well for this question?
Sep 10	comment	Cultural brain hypothesis and gene-culture co-evolution Milot, et al. (2011) provide evidence of relatively large change in behavior linked to genetics in a Québécois community over a short period of 140 years. Thus, the genetic change affecting behavior on small timescales is definitely possible, just need to exhibit a stronger link to co-evolution with culture.
Sep 3	comment	Does breastfeeding lead to increased intelligence? I don't understand what kind of answer you expect. Do you expect us to read the paper for you and summarize it? Do you want us to do a forward Scholar search? This seems to be a well known paper and, as @JeromyAnglim suggested, it looks like you want us to do your homework for you. I have voted to close as NARQ until you refine this to a specific question that shows that you have carefully read the paper (past the abstract) in question.
Aug 31	comment	What is the average amount of new vocabulary adults retain when learning a second language? What initial research have you already done? Since you are looking at foreign languages, it will depend heavily on how far the language you are learning is from your native tongue. I.e. I can learn Italian easier than I can learn Mandarin.
Aug 30	comment	Is religiousness a genetically heritable feature? @ChuckSherrington There are plenty of measures, take a look at `McGregor, I., Haji, R., Nash, K.A., & Teper, R. (2008). "Religious zeal and the uncertain self." Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 183–188.` This measure is used in Inzlicht et al. (2009; see this answer for more detail) when looking for neural correlates of religiousness.
Aug 25	comment	Computational Model Linking Neural Activity to Behavior Welcome to the site, I would try to constrain your question a little by explaining the level of realism you want in both the neuronal and behavior part of your answer. Otherwise you could get trivial answers like standard back-prop nets used as part of robotic controllers.
Aug 25	comment	Measuring meta-intelligence What initial research have you done on this? What would be "high metacognition" what would be low? Usually if you can't come up with tags for your questions then it is a sign that you haven't framed it well enough by existing knowledge to have a well answerable question.
Aug 23	comment	Do the Jungian Cognitive Functions/ Processes really exist? @ForbiddenOverseer it is still an external link. Try to summarize they key part that is relevant to your question in one or two sentences inside your question instead of always pointing us to outside sources. Remember, the easier you make the question to read in a self-contained manner, the better the answers you will receive.
Aug 22	comment	Why do humans have sex in private? @JavierRodriguezLaguna unfortunately history is incredibly short on an evolutionary time-scale. In which case I think your answer to Piotr would be "culture, not biology". I would definitely agree with this answer, and I think there are plenty of examples to back it up, it is just that none of the answers have taken the time to dig around :P.
Aug 22	comment	Why do humans have sex in private? @JavierRodriguezLaguna yet, human 'endowment' is disproportionately large in comparison to other primates suggesting sexual selection on the trait. However, I am not sure if wikipedia can be an authoritative source on this.
Aug 22	comment	Why do humans have sex in private? @DavidWiner if it is obvious, then humor us by providing a reference. Also, tone is hard to judge from comments, so try to avoid potentially rude statements.
Aug 22	comment	Why do humans have sex in private? can you dig up a reference for the Cook example? Also, the second book you cite seems to have very mixed reception among academics, do you have a more authoritative source?
Aug 22	comment	Why do humans have sex in private? @Stanislaw could you include the relevant quote (which I assume is what Piotr quoted) in your answer to make it self-contained? Also, is there a reason to believe that the website you are linking is an authority on ancient Greek culture? There is a lot of misinformation about such things on the web, we wouldn't want to be a source of further.
Aug 22	comment	Is there a region of cortex which over a period of development becomes the seat of self? A nice video about this.
Aug 16	comment	How can I create computer based psychology experiments using OS X? Welcome to the site! Is it possible to expand your answer to list the names of the 16 other tools the article summarized? For those that are not behind the pay-wall.
Aug 16	comment	What makes people easily subscribe to pseudoscientific theories? note the irony of your last question. You make a teleological statement about evolution -- a common mistake of pseudoscience ;).
Aug 16	comment	Utility or software to visualize Neural Network? @ChuckSherrington I was the one that flagged this for migration. This sort of visualization of the network as a series of edges with weights over them (this is what OP desires, see comment on answer) is a practical concern for CogSci modelers that use neural nets. This is not purely a stats question because unlike modelers, statisticians don't care that much about drawing the connections.