How did adolescents outperform both children and young adults in our new study? We fitted a dual learning rate, counterfactual RL model; a Bayesian Inference model; and PCA; and found 3 different explanations. Which one is right? Collins Lab Anne Collins doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.…

Our paper is now accepted at eLife - the journal ! excellent work by Maria Eckstein, Linda Wilbert and other colleagues, helping us get a more nuanced understanding of what we can learn from RL models of behavior

Very excited to be talking about surprise tomorrow at the #BernsteinConference in Berlin! Thank you Alireza Makhzani and Franziska Brändle for organizing!

Say hi to the current members of the CCN Lab!

Many years of work, published! Congratulations Maria Eckstein Sarah Master L Wilbrecht Collins Lab and collaborators not on twitter! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

Unsure if science people are still on twitter (?), but if so: New preprint with Nassar Lab ,Anne Collins, Beth Baribault, Alex He, Elena Festa and Ed Walsh about age-related changes in reinforcement learning and working memory! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Anne Collins Lab says I should lay off the working memory and let my reinforcement learning system(s) do the work... and throw in more dual-tasking. Maybe then I wouldn't be such a slow learner! Actually, she says a lot more (and with more prudence). braininspired.co/podcast/154/

Our new paper is out! Milena Rmus, with @ar__zou and Anne Collins, explores how choice type impacts human reinforcement learning: doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a…

We will be hiring a new lab manager for Collins Lab to start this summer! Interested candidates should email [email protected] with their CV and a short cover letter, and we will follow up with additional information when available. More here: ccn.berkeley.edu/pages/contact-…

I am looking to recruit a postdoc for my lab Collins Lab at UC Berkeley ccn.berkeley.edu. This is an NIH funded position, for a methods oriented project - we are looking for applicants with strong quantitative skills. Please forward to potential applicants!

If you're doing hierarchical bayesian modeling for cognitive models, Beth Baribault Beth's new paper is a must read! Highlighting all the most recent best practices, includes a new @matlab toolbox for visualization psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-57…

The value we place on an option depends on the context and available alternatives. But why does getting $1 when the possibilities were 0 or 1 feel much better than when the possibilities were 1 or 10? 🧵👇 1/7

I am looking to hire a postdoc with strong fMRI expertise for an NIH funded project at Collins Lab. More info here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04096 Please RT and pass along to potential applicants.

We have an opening postdoc position with a strong fMRI background at Collins Lab where we study flexible decision-making and learning in humans using behavioral paradigms and computational approaches. Get in touch if this sounds interesting! More info at aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04096

The notion that goals are central to human cognition is intuitive, yet learning and decision-making researchers have often overlooked the topic. In this Trends in Cognitive Sciences article, Anne Collins and I propose it’s time to start studying goals in their own right authors.elsevier.com/a/1hjzw4sIRvPN…

New paper with Anne Collins introducing a modeling framework for noise fluctuations in decision-making. It can be applied to identify lapses of attention, limit the impact of noisy trials on model fit, and avoid excluding some “noisy” subjects. (1/4) authors.elsevier.com/c/1igK253naxrQ1

We are hiring a full-time lab manager for Collins Lab to start this summer! Check out our website for information about how to apply: ccn.berkeley.edu/pages/contact-…

The last paper of my time in Collins Lab is now out, with Anne Collins, Jimmy Xia and Ti-Fen Pan! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

How do we decide which goals to pursue? Here, we introduce the notion of *latent learning progress* to explain human goal selection and inspire advances in the development of autotelic machines. osf.io/preprints/psya… Anne Collins Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Cédric Collins Lab Inria Flowers team 🧵

I finally finished writing my fun RL project during sabbatical in France. I first presented on this a year ago, but I'm still puzzled by the results, and what they mean for human reinforcement learning! Feedback welcome! osf.io/preprints/psya…