What makes adaptive decision-making possible?
New preprint connecting cognitive, social, biological, and computational views! w/ Dorst, FeldmanHall, @smfleming.bsky.social, @catehartley.bsky.social, Gottlieb, Lejarraga, MΓΌller-Trede, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, and Rosati
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Posts by Michael Zhu
Deeply honored that our paper was recognized with the #SANS2026 Award!
SANS was an important part of this paper's journey! @jadynpark.bsky.social first presented this work at SANS2023, and again in SANS2025, and we benefited greatly from the feedback and discussion!
Sharing this joy with my labmates and friends from the Bakkour Memory and Decision Lab over a taste of my hometown, and getting excited for #SANS2026!
Grateful for the recognition β excited to see everyone at SANS 2026 in San Diego!! π
So cool! Thereβs another study that examines historical biodiversity by analyzing bird species in Song dynasty paintings: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
New paper with @catehartley.bsky.social
How does the reward structure of the environment influence the specificity with which children, adolescents, and adults learn and remember information?
See preprint π§΅ and paper for our efforts to answer to this!
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And it's worth "plumbing" (pun intended) the depth of our minds! #sans2025 @kevinochsner.bsky.social
π Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science:
How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out π www.nature.com/articles/s41... π§΅π
New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...