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I am incredibly excited to announce that this work has been accepted to #NEURIPS2022 (and flagged for an award!)

1 week left to apply! If you're a neuro postdoc with interesting science and impactful community building stories to share, we want to fly you out to sunny LA to tell us about it!

In addition to talking about exploration and exploitation, I'll also be showcasing the large discrepancy between faculty profile pictures and reality. phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1…

Excited to share our new work which identifies a correspondence between diffusion models and serial reproduction, a classic paradigm in cognitive science similar to the telephone game! We use this to provide a new understanding of why diffusion models work so well. 1/n

New preprint psyarxiv.com/8j9zx/ We examined how chess players spent limited time available for thinking in over 12 million online games and found this tracks value of applying planning computations. w/ Dan Acosta-Kane (co-lead) basvanopheusden Marcelo Mattar Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab

Very excited for this!

Sashank Pisupati & Yael Niv ask, “How do biological systems learn continuously throughout their lives, adapting to change while retaining old knowledge, and how can these principles be applied to AI?” Sashank Pisupati Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social Free access until 12/22 bit.ly/3sU73y1

✨Preprint✨ w/ Mark Ho, Fred Callaway, Nathaniel Daw, & Tom Griffiths: arxiv.org/abs/2211.03890 TLDR: How do people decompose goals into subgoals? We ran a large-scale experiment to test how the computational cost of planning drives subgoal choice. More in 🧵

Here at the Society for Neuroscience #SfN conference (my first time!) to share some early work on how our feelings influence whether we consider something to be ‘worth our effort’. Come say hi at Poster Board QQ11 👋

This may be the best paper I’ve ever read

Check out our new paper: Du, Y.K., McAvan, A.S., Zheng, J., Ekstrom, A.D. (2023). Spatial memory distortions for the shapes of walked paths occur in violation of physically experienced geometry. PLoS ONE, 18(2), e0281739. doi.org/10.1371/journa… journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

“Feedback should be more work for the recipient than the donor.” Dylan Wiliam A point usually lost in education. If there’s no opportunity to respond to the feedback, what was the point of giving it in the first place?

Dopaminergic prediction errors in the rat ventral tegmental area (VTA) must access and update multiple independent predictive streams nature.com/articles/s4159…

I'm excited to share that my paper on resource-rational task decomposition has been published in PLOS Computational Biology! 🎉🥳 TLDR: People break large tasks down into smaller ones by balancing efficiency and the computational cost of planning. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

I’m thrilled to share the results from my (first) research paper! Grateful to work on an interesting problem, a unique dataset, and with great collaborates. Check it out:

🚨In press🚨We synthesize neural and behavioral work to ask how predictions and prediction errors lead to memory integration and separation. Super fun collab with this dream team Camille Gasser (first co-author) Tarek Amer ענת מריל @LilaDavachi! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Snapshots from today’s poster session at #CogSci2024