Kristine Zheng
@kristinezheng.bsky.social
📤 72
📥 73
📝 11
computational cognitive science @ stanford | prev: mit she/her kristinezheng.github.io
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Linas Nasvytis
about 2 months ago
1\ Can you make this Roman-numeral equation true by moving exactly one matchstick?
2
23
6
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Justin Yang
about 2 months ago
Thrilled to be sharing my latest work at
#CogSci2026
! Many of the spaces we move through, from kitchens to airports, were designed with specific uses in mind. How do people create such environments, and how do users figure out what they were designed for? 📃
osf.io/preprints/ps...
2
50
12
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Sam McDougle
about 2 months ago
Thrilled to have this preprint out, from the amazing Zekun Sun! "Motor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns" In brief, across 8 experiments we found evidence of a causal role for abstract representations in motor learning
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1
83
27
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Judy Fan
3 months ago
The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (
cogtoolslab.github.io
) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27. Full-Time Lab Manager:
forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km...
. IRiSS Predoc Researcher:
iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-...
. Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!
loading . . .
about the lab – cognitive tools lab
https://cogtoolslab.github.io/
2
52
44
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Irmak Ergin
3 months ago
Excited to share our new publication, “Measuring Naturalistic Speech Comprehension in Real Time”! ➡️
rdcu.be/fa3hk
#psynomBRM
w/
@kriesjill.bsky.social
, Shiven Gupta, Maria Papworth Burrel, &
@lauragwilliams.bsky.social
🧵1/11
loading . . .
Measuring naturalistic speech comprehension in real time
https://rdcu.be/fa3hk
1
30
13
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Tobias Gerstenberg
3 months ago
The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (
cicl.stanford.edu
) and the position (
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏
2
64
36
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Judy Fan
4 months ago
New paper out in Current Directions in Psychological Science making the case for studying generative behaviors in humans and machines:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
. (version without a paywall:
cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/fan_cdps...
)
loading . . .
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214261416790
1
30
4
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Aaron Hertzmann
3 months ago
If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper,
@judithfan.bsky.social
and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them.
aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d...
1/
loading . . .
Why Drawing is Hard: Visual Limitations and the Skills to Overcome Them
If asked to draw a picture of a tree or a person in front of them, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Thirty years ago, two psychologists pointed out that this should be surprising. They reasoned ...
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/drawing-skills.html
2
106
42
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Tobias Gerstenberg
4 months ago
Congratulations
@judithfan.bsky.social
on winning the Lila R. Gleitman Prize for early-career contributions to Cognitive Science 🥳 Amazing!!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-pri...
4
73
10
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Nature Reviews Psychology
7 months ago
How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world Perspective by Shari Liu, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Joseph Outa & Minjae J. Kim Web:
go.nature.com/3Xwo40J
PDF:
rdcu.be/eSMfa
0
13
5
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Nick Sousanis
11 months ago
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
add a skeleton here at some point
18
797
355
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Yang Xiang
10 months ago
Now out in Cognition, work with the great
@gershbrain.bsky.social
@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling! 📃
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...
add a skeleton here at some point
1
36
14
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Tobias Gerstenberg
10 months ago
🚨 NEW PREPRINT: Multimodal inference through mental simulation. We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation. Paper:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code:
github.com/cicl-stanfor...
3
52
16
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Tobias Gerstenberg
11 months ago
Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at
#cogsci2025
on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.
1
65
15
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Abdul-Rahim Deeb
11 months ago
If you're heading to
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World” 📅 August 1 • 9 AM 📍 Salon 2 With
@thiskevinsmith.bsky.social
@shariliu.bsky.social
@judithfan.bsky.social
@ardeeb.bsky.social
— See you there!
#CogSci2025
1
16
7
Linking student psychological orientation, engagement & learning in intro college-level data science New work at
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
w/
@erikbrockbank.bsky.social
@shawnschwartz.bsky.social
, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck &
@judithfan.bsky.social
poster 8/1 @ 10:30
tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25
11 months ago
1
20
7
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Verona Teo
11 months ago
Excited to share our new work at
#CogSci2025
! We explore how people plan deceptive actions, and how detectives try to see through the ruse and infer what really happened based on the traces left behind. 🕵️♀️ Paper:
osf.io/preprints/osf/vqgz5_v1
Code:
github.com/cicl-stanford/recursive_deception
1/
1
24
7
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Justin Yang
11 months ago
Excited to be sharing my latest work with
@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
at
#CogSci2025
! Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience? 📃
cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2...
1/
1
27
9
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Erik Brockbank
11 months ago
"36 Questions That Lead To Love" was the most viewed article in NYT Modern Love. Excited to share new results investigating these and other “deep questions” with
@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
@judithfan.bsky.social
&
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
Preprint:
tinyurl.com/bdfx5smk
Code:
tinyurl.com/3v6pws4s
1
27
9
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Yuka Machino
12 months ago
🎤 "Your
#CogSci
presentation was quite good this year." How flattered or offended will you be? The answer may depend on whether you speak British or American English 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Our new
#CogSci2025
paper reveals systematic differences in how different cultures interpret the same words.
4
73
20
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
RT Pramod
about 1 year ago
Thrilled to announce our new publication titled 'Decoding predicted future states from the brain's physics engine' with
@emiecz.bsky.social
, Cyn X. Fang,
@nancykanwisher.bsky.social
,
@joshtenenbaum.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
(1/n)
loading . . .
Decoding predicted future states from the brain’s “physics engine”
Using fMRI in humans, this study provides evidence for future state prediction in brain regions involved in physical reasoning.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adr7429
1
50
22
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Junyi Chu
about 1 year ago
Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)
2
57
23
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Shawn Schwartz
about 1 year ago
I’m pleased to share our new review article, “Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory”, written with Haopei Yang (HY), Alice Xue, and Anthony Wagner, now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science. 🚀🧠 A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
loading . . .
Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory - Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner, 2025
The ability to learn from and remember experiences (episodic memory) depends on multiple neurocognitive systems. In this article, we highlight recent advances i...
https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
1
17
10
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
tal boger
about 1 year ago
Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In
@nathumbehav.nature.com
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I take an experimental approach to style perception!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
2
81
32
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Erik Brockbank
over 1 year ago
Whoops I apparently have no idea how graphics work, please enjoy this hilarious inverted SVG situation and head to
project-nightingale.stanford.edu
to see the *real* graphic
loading . . .
Project Nightingale
https://project-nightingale.stanford.edu/
0
6
1
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Erik Brockbank
over 1 year ago
Hello bluesky world :) excited to share a new paper on data visualization literacy 📈 🧠 w/
@judithfan.bsky.social
,
@arnavverma.bsky.social
, Holly Huey, Hannah Lloyd,
@lacepadilla.bsky.social
! 📝 preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
💻 code:
github.com/cogtoolslab/...
loading . . .
OSF
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kac4z_v1
4
26
8
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
M.J. Crockett
over 1 year ago
My new piece in
@theguardian.com
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
loading . . .
AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/28/ai-empathy-humans
22
452
205
reposted by
Kristine Zheng
Dorsa Amir
over 1 year ago
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
33
1092
501
you reached the end!!
feeds!
log in