Overheard near the water cooler on the Web Tubes:
reading some great grad student papers which review existing studies in #DH and #culturalanalytics and they are finding a lot wanting on the theoretical end. Something the field needs to do more deeply: more theoretically grounded empiricism.
— Andrew Piper (@_akpiper) April 30, 2022
Deep in the library, among the spiders and potions:
Huth, Alexander G.; de Heer, Wendy A.; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Theunissen, Frédéric E.; Gallant, Jack L. (2016). Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex. Nature, 532(7600), 453–458. doi:10.1038/nature17637
— Bill Benzon, aka The Danish Space Laser (@bbenzon) May 5, 2022
Later, over lunch:
Haven't read it yet. Just looking at the pictures. But I'd guess that they haven't looked at distributions in the narratives themselves.
— Bill Benzon, aka The Danish Space Laser (@bbenzon) May 5, 2022
May I offer a suggestion?
I had that in mind here (pp. 21 ff.): 2/X https://t.co/SIYl8FG85r
— Bill Benzon, aka The Danish Space Laser (@bbenzon) May 5, 2022
And here (notice the email exchange with neuroscientist Walter Freeman on 5 & 6): 3/3https://t.co/TkhWkGov3g
— Bill Benzon, aka The Danish Space Laser (@bbenzon) May 5, 2022
