survey on family of predictive representations defined by the successor representation accepted to neural computation! some updated signposting to ease reading. enjoy :) arxiv.org/pdf/2402.06590

Our attention waxes and wanes over time. How does this influence the way our memories are organized? Pupil size at encoding, an index of attention, predicts the temporal structure of subsequent memory Super proud of Manasi Jayakumar (she/her) for this work! 👀 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Glad that this paper is out Scientific Reports where we combined Bayesian nonparametrics & vector representations of context to learn shared & context-specific information; and we used the model to account for human data on schema learning and event cognition! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Go work with Dr. Spiers, who has consistently been doing fantastic and inspiring work!

For folks who aren't able to attend in-person, we are excited to be able to stream all talks this year on our youtube channel: youtube.com/@cogcompneuro Papers can be found here: 2024.ccneuro.org/poster-session… Please share!

Proud to have the entire FINN Lab at #CCN2024! Here's where you can catch us: First up, Katie O'Nell @katieoneuro has a talk in tomorrow morning's session (Thurs 9:30am) about a new way to quantify what makes conversation good (hint: think pink 🩷🎀💅)

Check out Lauren's awesome work in PNASNews on how humans change their behavior when they are training AI. Our university wrote a nice article covering this work, with some awkward quotes from yours truly. artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/huma…

Social psych friends: do you know of--or have and are willing to share--any dataset(s) of open-ended conversations with survey outcome measures (e.g., enjoyment, connectedness)? Dyads preferred, but >2 speakers also fine. Like the 🔥 CANDOR dataset (even if smaller). Thanks!!

Having just gotten to meet with Melanie at SFI, I think this is a fantastic opportunity! She is excellent, SFI is amazing, go do some brilliant work!

Does encoding the present compete with predicting the future? In 3 behavioral studies, we find that encoding and prediction are coupled, not competitive! Proud of Craig Poskanzer & Hannah Tarder-Stoll for leading this work w/ Raheema Javid & Edoardo Spolaore! osf.io/preprints/psya…

Excited to share this project! Across 3 experiments, we find consistent evidence that encoding and prediction are coupled-- not competitive. See our preprint or come to my poster at SFN (PSTR305.12) to see some follow-up modeling work!

I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior, rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)

Go work with Rob, a fantastic scientist and human being!

Now out in Nature Communications (lead: Xinming Xu)! How do conversations shape how (and what) people guess about the unknown past and future (e.g., in other people's lives)? Paper/code/data: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Attending #SfN24? Postdoc Ivan Grahek will be presenting his talk “Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a computational account”. Details below👇: ➡️ Room N228, Saturday October 5th at 1pm ➡️SFN '24 NANO07 - VBDM Across Model Systems Symposium

The last year of my PhD was maybe not the best time to get into dwarf fortress.

Why did Factorio have to release an awesome expansion this year... Factorio, Dwarf Fortress, or Dissertation. Tough choices.

I'm extremely excited to launch the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician in January 2025 (job ad soon). Reach out to chat!

Re-upping: Postdoc position (two-to-three years) at Santa Fe Institute on cogsci-inspired AI approaches to multimodal reasoning. Start date flexible: target is Summer / Fall 2025. PhD in AI, ML, CogSci, or related area (by start date) Apply by Nov. 22. santafe.edu/about/jobs/pos…

Lots of folks talking about scaling LLM inference over this last year Internally, I’ve been developing and using a library that makes this extremely easy, and I decided to open-source it Meet the decoding library: github.com/benlipkin/deco… 1/7