⭐ 2021 Dean's Undergraduate Excellence Awardee⭐ Kaiqi (Cathy) Zhang applies her mathematical knowledge to cognitive science. She will focus on exploring the effectiveness of educational strategies, unpacking the ways in which students learn and remember. Congratulations!

Why count backwards by 7 when this is the true test of attention and cognition 🤦🏻‍♂️

It is that time of year again!!! #Gingerbread #brains #HappyHolidays #neuroscience

If you have a robust skincare routine you have demonstrated aptitude in many core skills of data science. I will not be taking criticism of this idea. Girls who have developed personalized skincare routines know more about multivariate causal inference than many engineers.

One of my favorite things about pediatrics is looking at imaging. Like have you ever seen a baby's hand x ray? That shit is adorable.

Me at poster sessions

Boys who betray me? I eat them for breakfast.

My 2023 academic resolution is to read all papers I download 🤣🤣

My friend (An Wu, Komiyama lab, UCSD, tiny little Asian girl with so much energy) who went to Cosyne (Montreal) was missing after the old Montreal fire. Shout out to any cosyne participants who might have seen her in the recent two days. #cosyne23 CosyneMeeting

Friends, we need your help. An Wu, a postdoc from UCSD is missing post-Cosyne. We're trying to locate her. We're worried she may have been staying at a building that had a bad fire this week. If you have any information about where An was staying or last seen please contact me.

An's passing has been confirmed this morning. The situation suggests that she passed without suffering. To those who have reached out with kind thoughts, thank you.

Excited to share our preprint “Choosing the right frame: How context preferences facilitate subsequent choice” with Wouter Kool! We develop a novel paradigm to show that people have context preferences and that these preferences affect downstream choices. psyarxiv.com/7p9en/

Gave my first ever lecture in a big scary lecture hall 🧠🎤 It sure felt different to prepare your own slides than to lead review sessions for just 40 people.

It's been a while, but our lab has an Society for Neuroscience (SfN) presentation! Ata Karagoz will talk about how he uses behavioral and neural RSA to measure the construction of cognitive maps. Joint work with Zach Reagh.

Come say hi to the CDML at #psynom23! Check out posters by thea zalabak, Lauren Treiman, davideghez.bsky.social, Cathy Zhang, and Wouter Kool at Poster Session I today at 6pm, Poster Session II tomorrow at 12pm, and Poster Session III tomorrow at 6pm! Psychonomic Society

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this postdoc position is available again. Come work together with me, Todd Braver, and Julie Bugg on the cognitive neuroscience of attentional control. Funded by DoD MURI.

I just attended a great conference, but can’t help feeling disillusioned when I see certain organizing decisions, originally intended to promote diversity, going off to a strange direction. (1/7)