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Posts by Ari Kahn

Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE) Duties & Responsibilities:Publishing peer-reviewed scholarly works.Maintaining an active research program.Obtaining extramural funding.Teaching un...

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply!

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Children leverage predictive representations for flexible, value-guided choice By harnessing a mental model of how the world works, learners can make flexible choices in changing environments. However, while children and adolesce…

New paper out in cognition with @arikahn.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, Cate Hartley, and @katenuss.bsky.social !!

We show that children 👶 use predictive representations (e.g. SR) to guide their choices, providing an account of how they can make flexible choices in a changing world

6 months ago 46 12 1 1
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Excited to see everyone at #RLDM2025!

I’ll be presenting a poster “Trial-by-trial landing of successor representations in human behavior” on Friday (Poster session 3, #52), work with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and @danisbassett.bsky.social

10 months ago 16 2 0 0
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Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations - Nature Human Behaviour Trach and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations.

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the great @jetrach.bsky.social!

"Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10 months ago 84 34 2 1

I am hiring for RA, PhD, and postdoc positions. Come work with me on how we use simplified models of the world to plan in complex environments!

University of Arizona is located in Tucson with incredible access to the outdoors.

If you are interested, reach out to me! (2/2)

10 months ago 8 4 0 1
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I'm thrilled to announce that I will start as an Assistant Professor in Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona in Jan 2026! My lab will investigate human planning and decision making through a combination of computational models, behavior, and fMRI (1/2)

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New preprint 📝 - another fun collaboration with @arikahn.bsky.social, @licezhang.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social

We ask: Why do children and adults often derive different representations of their environments from the same experiences? 🧠👶🔎

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