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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
osf.io/preprints/ps...

5 days ago 50 18 0 2

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!

3 days ago 40 6 2 0

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!

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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us. On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

3 weeks ago 1726 515 109 265

Grateful for the recognition β€” excited to see everyone at SANS 2026 in San Diego!! πŸ™Œ

3 weeks ago 7 2 1 0
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Bird diversity in historical paintings of the Song dynasty (960–1279) Click on the article title to read more.

So cool! There’s another study that examines historical biodiversity by analyzing bird species in Song dynasty paintings: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

11 months ago 2 0 0 0

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 🧡 and paper for our efforts to answer to this!

#PsychSciSky

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

11 months ago 54 12 0 0
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And it's worth "plumbing" (pun intended) the depth of our minds! #sans2025 @kevinochsner.bsky.social

11 months ago 26 4 0 0
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πŸ™Œ 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 πŸ‘‰ www.nature.com/articles/s41... πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

11 months ago 176 55 8 3
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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...

1 year ago 62 27 1 3