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Happy to share that this work is finally out in collaboration with Nathaniel Daw and Jordan Taylor ! If you are interested in RL and visuomotor learning, have a look! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

A team of Princeton University and Rutgers University researchers, led by PNI's Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social, received a $16M National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant to study how disorders like depression and anxiety may stem from how the brain interprets the world via "latent cause inference." Full story: pni.princeton.edu/news/2024/prin…

you too can experience imaginary restaurants just by flying through newark airport terminal C, where they there are dozens of tantalizing bespoke restaurant concepts that were clearly designed by a genius team reading your dreams, yet the food and service are uniformly abominable

Excited to share a new project! 🎉🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… How do we navigate between brain states when we switch tasks? Are dynamics driven by control, or passive decay of the prev task? To answer, we compare high-dim linear dynamical systems fit to EEG and RNNs🌀 ⏬

It took a while, but this paper with Nathaniel Daw is now published in Nature Communications. Reviewers had many good comments, so lots of new stuff here, especially on the computational mechanisms of how people dissociate volatility from stochasticity: nature.com/articles/s4146…

New preprint with Dani S. Bassett and Nathaniel Daw! How do humans learn predictive representations? We propose a trial-by-trial learning rule that incorporates trace updating to learn the SR. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2xLNA

When I first saw this paper I legit said "that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard." When I much later confessed this to Aaron Courville my wife legit punched me for being so rude but of course by then the joke was that the joke was on me! (Whole thread is great.)

I’m really sad that my dear friend Felix Hill is no longer with us. He had many friends and colleagues all over the world - to try to ensure we reach them, his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix

Devastatingly, we have lost a bright light in our field. Felix Hill was not only a deeply insightful thinker -- he was also a generous, thoughtful mentor to many researchers. He majorly changed my life, and I can't express how much I owe to him. Even now, Felix still has so much

In a dynamic reinforcement learning task, human players adaptively employ a mix of decision strategies, including model-based learning but also the successor representation. Nathaniel Daw Ari Kahn nature.com/articles/s4427…

New pre-print out of our lab, "Children leverage predictive representations for flexible, value-guided choice," from former lab members Alice Zhang Kate Nussenbaum and collaborators Nathaniel Daw Ari Kahn! Catherine Hartley osf.io/preprints/psya…

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. here: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

one of the most intriguing projects i've been involved in: automated scientific discovery in an area (human/animal RL) I've been working on forever. can an LLM do the job of my grad students? if it is backed up by super smart scientists incl Pablo Samuel Castro Kevin Miller Kim Stachenfeld (neurokim.bsky.social)

announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students. sign up: insead.edu/events/neuroec…

if you're at #COSYNE2025 today, come by poster 3-090 to talk to Kim Stachenfeld (neurokim.bsky.social) Kevin Miller and me about this work. see you then!

deborah talmi Deborah Talmi has a cool postdoc position with rik henson and emily holmes at cambridge (I also collaborate), working on computational modeling and analysis of emotional memory. apply by april 21 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/

omg this is so borges, so much better than a reading list of actual books.

How do you make a decision in a situation you’ve never encountered? Your brain may use your memories to do much of the thinking long before you have to make the choice. Read more by Daphna Shohamy Jonathan Nicholas Nathaniel Daw in Nature Communications zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/memories-can-s… #memory

thrilled that we'll be presenting this paper as a spotlight at #ICML2025 . come by our poster in vancouver to chat with us about the use of LLMs for advancing neuroscience! here's the camera-ready version: openreview.net/forum?id=dhRXG…