I'm excited to announce that this work has been accepted at NeurIPS Conference 🥳 We hope to spark cross-disciplinary conversations on goal selection in biological and artificial agents. Check it out at openreview.net/forum?id=GbqzN… Cédric Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Anne Collins Inria Flowers team Collins Lab

Stop by NeurIPS Conference poster #3909 11 am - 2 pm today if you want to wish me a happy birthday, hear about goal selection in RL, or both! Cédric Anne Collins Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Collins Lab Inria Flowers team

1/ If you want to know how to generate diverse and challenging Programming Puzzles stop by our NeurIPS Conference poster #3010 (East Exhibit Hall A-C, 4:30-7:30 pm) Cédric Gaia Molinaro 🦋 gaiamolinaro.bsky.social Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Laetitia Teodorescu

Sarah Oh and I have a new preprint! Developing a new experimental protocol to reveal habit formation separately from cognitive control, in a 1h lab experiment. Naturally disengaging control to reveal habits osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science

Check out this work today at 10 am ICLR 2026! Learn what's wrong with evaluating #LLMs after a single interaction, and how cultural attraction theory can help us do better. Poster #288 Jérémy Perez Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Maxime Derex Grgur Kovač Cédric Corentin LEGER Clément Moulin-Frier

As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments, to pursue the questions I find most important and meaningful. I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a

Generative AI is a cultural transmission technology: it plays a growing role in generation, selection and transmission of ideas/opinions in human society 🧠🔄🌐 And yet we understand very little of this dynamics at this point 🤔❓ A step forward is our #ICLR2025 paper !👇

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, (2) Biological Basis of Behavior. Official job ads coming soon... Send qs for 1 to I Mauss/S Chen, 2 to L Wilbrecht

Berkeley Psych is hiring! **TWO** tenure-track assistant professor positions are now open, focused on: (1) Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 (2) Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Retweet and spread the word!

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!

📢 New preprint! How do humans learn from arbitrary, abstract goals? We show that, when goal spaces can be compressed, costly working-memory processes give way to internalized reward functions, enabling efficient goal-dependent RL. Anne Collins Collins Lab arxiv.org/abs/2509.06810

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances ! We report a novel phenomenon in motor control: your current movement is repelled away from your previous one. Modeling suggests this repulsion reflects efficient coding in motor planning.