Alice Zhang
@licezhang.bsky.social
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phd student in psychology at oxford uni. she/her
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Nico Schuck
6 months ago
Does Sleeping on a idea work? Nice to see our work led by the amazing
@anikaloewe.bsky.social
and
@maritpetzka.bsky.social
featured together with other studies in the WaPo:
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
Our preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Does sleeping on an idea work? Hereโs what science says.
Scientists are finding experimental evidence that the transition between wakefulness and sleep is a portal for creative thought.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/03/13/sleep-creativity-naps-science/
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Anne Urai ๐ฅ
6 months ago
I think about this a lot. Thanks
@behrenstimb.bsky.social
for the wonderfully 90s-vibe blog full of wisdom!
users.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~behrens/Sta...
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my paper with max,
@maxkw.bsky.social
, tuomas, and
@fierycushman.bsky.social
out in cognition at long last
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We explain why humans and successful AI planners both fail on a certain kind of problem that we might describe as requiring insight or creativity
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Similar failures of consideration arise in human and machine planning
Humans are remarkably efficient at decision making, even in โopen-endedโ problems where the set of possible actions is too large for exhaustive evaluaโฆ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725000484
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Nome
6 months ago
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
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Kate Nussenbaum
7 months ago
New preprint ๐ - another fun collaboration with
@arikahn.bsky.social
,
@licezhang.bsky.social
,
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social
,
@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
We ask: Why do children and adults often derive different representations of their environments from the same experiences? ๐ง ๐ถ๐
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/amvth_v1
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preprint from the time i spent at
@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
๐ - we were puzzled by past findings suggesting that children learn about the structure of the world, but don't use this knowledge to flexibly guide their decision-making as much as adults do.
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https://psyarxiv.com/y3dzn
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