Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with the Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton. apply.interfolio.com/139253

Thrilled to share a new preprint on work with Mark Ho and Wei Ji Ma! We propose to abstract planning as an information search problem, and derive a model which produces heuristics for meta-planning, or determining which action to plan for. More in 🧵 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Delighted that our work using MEG to examine which outcomes people represent during risky decision-making and how this relates to choice heuristics is now out Nature Communications rdcu.be/dIrgH w/ Rani Moran Yunzhe Liu Ray Dolan Quentin Huys

At #CogSci2024? I'll be speaking tomorrow (Thursday T.05.02 10:30 am session) on using a resource rational model of working memory to understand developmental changes (paper: escholarship.org/uc/item/1gx0z7…) work with Cameron Rouse Turner Emma McEwen Andreea Miscov Prof. Amanda Seed Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab

New preprint! The first from my postdoc, on work with basvanopheusden Evan Russek and Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab. We use a data set of over two million decisions to show that people employ sophisticated learning algorithms in naturalistic strategic behavior. More in 🧵osf.io/preprints/psya…

⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ PhD alert! Do your PhD with me and use Reinforcement Learning to study how misinformation affects us. Deadline: October 7. Please RT! For more information: findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

Highly recommend this very insightful paper that I was lucky to be able to read an early draft of! Links different aspects of repetitive negative thinking to distinct functions and computations in RL.

Excited to announce Centaur -- the first foundation model of human cognition. Centaur can predict and simulate human behavior in any experiment expressible in natural language. You can readily download the model from Hugging Face and test it yourself: huggingface.co/marcelbinz/Lla…

Extremely excited about this work!

👀🍟Now out in Cognitive Science 😋🤖 We present a new approach that combines cognitive models and neural networks to predict latent preferences. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Very excited to be hosting a workshop at #RLDM2025 this Thursday along with Evan Russek! We have an amazing lineup of speakers, with the goal being to discuss how chess can act as a bridge between human cognition and artificial intelligence ♟️ sites.google.com/nyu.edu/chessr…

Excited to see our Centaur project out in nature. TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.

New review on computational approaches to studying human planning out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! Really enjoyed having the opportunity to write something broader about the field with the help of Evan Russek Marcelo Mattar Wei Ji Ma and Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab cell.com/trends/cogniti…

I’ll be presenting recent work with Evan Russek Lisa Schut Yotam Sagiv Marcelo Mattar Wei Ji Ma and Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab this week at #CogSci2025! Stop by my poster (P3, Saturday 1 PT) to hear about planning, resource rationality, and time pressure Paper: escholarship.org/content/qt75b4…

Haha walking poster stand