Today I will present our work on CorText and how to fuse neural data with LLMs in the MedARC Journal Club! I’m thankful for the invitation and looking forward! 🧠🌸 Join online: 2:15 PM UTC meet.google.com/bof-ikcz-ygh

Hiring! Please share! Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers. Details & applications: www.fens.org/careers/job-... www.fens.org/careers/job-...

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Too many star chefs spoil the broth. In an Overcooked-like task, mixed teams beat uniformly strong players. Fittingly, the project came from an interdisciplinary team: different fields, better recipe. Thanks all! We’ll present at CogSci. See y’all there. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Our new lab for Human & Machine Intelligence is officially open at Princeton University! Consider applying for a PhD or Postdoc position, either through Computer Science or Psychology. You can register interest on our new website lake-lab.github.io (1/2)

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵

My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv... Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)

Does the brain learn by gradient descent? It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD). The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!

That's a wrap on our first ever hackathon! Thanks to all of the wonderful people who attended. Lots of amazing projects and collaborations got started. 🥳

Our paper just came out in PRX! Congrats to Nishil Patel and the rest of the team* TL;DR: We analyse policy learning through the lens of statphys, revealing distinct scaling regimes with sharp transitions. 🔗 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract... *Seb Lee @sebgoldt.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social

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As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments. I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a Cognitive Epistemology Lab at @BerkeleyPsych in Fall 2026!

Less than 10 days to apply to the last edition of the Analytical Connectionism summer school! Deadline: April 18th 🚨 Apply here www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025/ Where? London, UK. When? Aug 25-Sep 5.

Also on grammatical islands: backgroundedness & single event status explain variation in acceptability of single extraction of 2nd conjuncts: ?? What does she [[drink gin] and [eat _]]? What did she [[run to the store ]and [buy_]]? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo0np... @relbelluck.bsky.social

GPT-4 behaves just like people on a complex set of 'island' stimuli: Backgroundedness jdgmts on base sentences predict independent acceptability jdgmts on Qs & RCs but not jdgmts on the base sentences themselves Causal manipulation works too @supantho.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ktvd...

We're hosting a hackathon in May! This is aimed at jsPsych users who want to learn how to contribute to open source software and extend jsPsych. It's free, and we'll cover travel expenses. Learn more and sign up here: jspsych.github.io/hackathon/sp...

🚀 I'm excited to share: *SweetBean* is now published! It’s a ❗super simple❗ Python package for writing behavioral experiments. Bonus feature: Use them with LLMs as synthetic participants, too. 👉 Try it out:

Just published in JOSS: 'SweetBean: A declarative language for behavioral experiments with human and artificial participants' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07703

Ever been told to ""sleep on it""? 😴 @alanajaskir.bsky.social’s research shows how snoozing helps your brain learn! #sleepbenefits #replay #hippocampus #academicsky #standupforscience

Dopamine helps you move AND think! Michael studies how dopamine neurons shape our behavior and what happens when they are damaged in Parkinson's disease. #science #stem #academicsky #dopamine #parkinsons

Does sleep affect the relationship between representations formed in different memory systems? Check out our new preprint on how sleep resolves the competition between explicit and implicit memory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new Python toolbox called HSSM simplifies working with Hierarchical Sequential Sampling Models (HSSMs) to understand how we accumulate evidence and make choices. Built on PyMC, Bambi, & ArviZ. Check it out! #cognitivescience #python #decisionmaking edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...

In our latest article, published in @pnas.org and led by @marcelbinz.bsky.social and Stephan Alaniz, we got together four diverse groups of scientists to reflect on how LLMs should affect science. From treating them like co-authors to using other tools instead, many interesting arguments emerged.

We are currently building the largest, cross-domain data set of human behavior as part of an open collaborative project. Contributions of any form are welcome, but especially experiments with meta-data from developmental, cross-cultural, or clinical studies. More details: github.com/marcelbinz/P...

Hey 🦋 fam! Check out this great summary of our study by @psypost.bsky.social, out now in Psychological Medicine doi.org/10.1017/S003... w Deanna Barch, Johanne Solis, Temitope Oshinowo, Ivan Grahek, Anna Konova, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social & Jon Cohen. Thanks to funders @njacts.bsky.social & NJHF!

I wrote a quick Python package, QuickEEG, to simplify processing EEG data. The core functionality is there but I need to build the documentation and specific use-case functionality. Would there be any interest if I develop this into a full fledged package? github.com/chadcwilliam...

Excited to have our Automated Research Assistant (AutoRA) published. While initially developed for the behavioral sciences, AutoRA is designed as a general framework for closed-loop scientific discovery. Visit the doc to construct your own closed-loop studies: autoresearch.github.io/autora/

Just published in JOSS: 'AutoRA: Automated Research Assistant for Closed-Loop Empirical Research' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06839