Ham @hamhuang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Ellie is fun, friendly, and extremely smart and astute. I have been getting tones of scientific insights and emotional support from her just as her colleague in the department. Can’t imagine how much the positivity would scale up if you were her mentee. Highly recommend applying to work with her!! 220
Ham @hamhuang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Interested in Automated model discovery and two people collaborating on visual memory? Please find my poster at session F 08/06 1:45-3:30 pm. Poster number F58 #CCN26 020
Ham @hamhuang.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I will be presenting a poster at society for philosophy and psychology meeting 2026 at 06/19 6pm. The title is: toward a computational cognitive science of collectives. Looking forward to seeing you there! For details please check out my personal website: huangham.github.iohuangham.github.ioHam HuangA highly-customizable Hugo academic resume theme powered by Wowchemy website builder. 040
Reposted by Hamellaqiawenliu.bsky.social @ellaqiawenliu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026New paper out in Psych bull & review! With @glupyan.bsky.social It’s a big-picture review on cross-domain mapping: how people connect things across senses and concepts, and why (weak) synesthesia and metaphor might all be part of the same story. link.springer.com/article/10.3...link.springer.comThe unity of sense and mind: A review of cross-domain mapping - Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewIf the sound of a trombone had a taste, would it be bitter? In what way is solving a puzzle like navigating a relationship? People consistently map information across sensory modalities and conceptual... 053
Reposted by HamAdele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Very cool work by Qiawen (Ella) Liu, Paridon, @glupyan.bsky.social: e.g., Is white hot or cold? LMs consider 'white' cold because it's mediated by 'snow' Ablate the mediators, and you eliminate the associations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comLearning about color from language - Communications PsychologyBlind people show similar associations between adjectives (e.g. cold) and colours (e.g. blue) as sighted people; word embedding models trained on corpora of written and spoken language learn these ass... 1133
Reposted by HamLiu, Shuze @liushuze.bsky.social · 19/08/2025@gershbrain.bsky.social and I have a new paper in PLOS Comp Bio! We study how two cognitive constraints—action consideration set size & policy complexity—interact in context-dependent decision making, and how humans exploit their synergy to reduce behavioral suboptimality. osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 12611
Reposted by HamSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If you work on artificial or natural intelligence and are finishing your PhD, consider applying for a Kempner research fellowship at Harvard: kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/kempner-inst...kempnerinstitute.harvard.eduKempner Research Fellowship - Kempner InstituteThe Kempner brings leading, early-stage postdoctoral scientists to Harvard to work on projects that advance the fundamental understanding of intelligence. 04731
Reposted by HamCommunications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 18/08/2025People learn from rewards differently when outcomes are shared with others. Learning slows when receiving smaller reward shares, and social stereotypes about partners further impair learning with cognitive demands. @hamhuang.bsky.social @annajenkins.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comSocial inequity disrupts reward-based learning - Communications PsychologyPeople learn from rewards differently when outcomes are shared with others. Learning slows when receiving smaller reward shares, and social stereotypes about partners further impair learning when cogn... 062
Ham @hamhuang.bsky.social · 16/08/2025🚨New paper!🚨My new work with @annajenkins.bsky.social is published @commspsychol.nature.com ! Social inequity shapes people’s ability to learn from rewards during reinforcement learning! www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comSocial inequity disrupts reward-based learning - Communications PsychologyPeople learn from rewards differently when outcomes are shared with others. Learning slows when receiving smaller reward shares, and social stereotypes about partners further impair learning when cogn... 751
Reposted by HamVélez Lab at UCSD @velezcolab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025The CoLab is headed to #CogSci2025!! 🥳 Here's where to find us! 0339
Reposted by HamRobert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025"We introduce Collaborative Rational Speech Act (CRSA), an information-theoretic (IT) extension of RSA that models multi-turn dialog by optimizing a gain function adapted from rate-distortion theory." arxiv.org/abs/2507.14063arxiv.orgCollaborative Rational Speech Act: Pragmatic Reasoning for Multi-Turn DialogAs AI systems take on collaborative roles, they must reason about shared goals and beliefs-not just generate fluent language. The Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework offers a principled approach to pr... 0135
Ham @hamhuang.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Excited to see the work during my undergrad times finally come out! Learned so much from working with Sam and Anne on this project. 0122
Reposted by HamVélez Lab at UCSD @velezcolab.bsky.social · 16/06/2025We are so excited to welcome our summer RA's to the lab! Looking forward to a productive summer💫 @bellafascendini.bsky.social @hamhuang.bsky.social @creppy-r.bsky.social 051