Reposted by Milena RmusEric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich. 13327
Reposted by Milena RmusFranziska Brändle @frabraendle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025What influences whether people have fun with a task? Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports! rdcu.be/eI069 Paper summary below 1/4rdcu.beLeveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video gamesScientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games 15917
Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Also happy to announce that our Automated scientific minimization of regret paper got accepted to the AI4Science workshop at #NeurIPS - arxiv.org/abs/2505.17661 with @marcelbinz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social & @ericschulz.bsky.socialarxiv.orgAutomated scientific minimization of regretWe introduce automated scientific minimization of regret (ASMR) -- a framework for automated computational cognitive science. Building on the principles of scientific regret minimization, ASMR leverag... 061
Reposted by Milena RmusAlireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.” Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior. #cogsci #neuroskyence 010438
Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Happy to announce our paper got accepted to #NeurIPS! @akjagadish.bsky.social @marvinmathony.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social & Tobi Ludwig arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879arxiv.orgGenerating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language ModelsComputational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data.... 1235
Reposted by Milena RmusMarcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Excited to see our Centaur project out in @nature.com. TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language. 64312
Reposted by Milena RmusSamuel Liebana @samuel-liebana.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Does 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!cell.comDopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectoriesLongitudinal tracking of long-term learning behavior and striatal dopamine reveals that dopamine teaching signals shape individually diverse yet systematic learning trajectories, captured mathematical... 37418
Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!arxiv.orgGenerating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language ModelsComputational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data.... 0167
Reposted by Milena RmusRachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨 Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change. Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left. 👇1/n 524587
Reposted by Milena RmusMarcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich. Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible. More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf Feel free to share broadly!hcai-munich.com 165
Reposted by Milena RmusThe Onion @theonion.com · 08/04/2025Nestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 Billiontheonion.comNestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 BillionVEVEY, SWITZERLAND—With the food conglomerate saying the acquisition made sense given its longstanding strategic partnership with the pathogen, Nestlé released a statement Friday confirming it had pur... 455048427
Reposted by Milena RmusMarvin Mathony @marvinmathony.bsky.social · 23/03/2025very happy to be presenting this at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Milena RmusThe Onion @theonion.com · 01/03/2025Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building theonion.com/son-of-... 526507598
Reposted by Milena RmusMirko Thalmann @mirkothm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Every experience is unique 🌟 light shifts, angles change, yet we recognize objects effortlessly. How do our minds do this? And (how) do they differ from machines? In our new preprint with @ericschulz.bsky.social, we review human generalization and compare it to machine generalization: osf.io/k6ect 087
Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · 26/02/2025About a month late posting this, but here's a new project with @ericschulz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social, @marvinmathony.bsky.social and Tobias Ludwig We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM! arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879arxiv.orgTowards Automation of Cognitive Modeling using Large Language ModelsComputational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data.... 0218
Reposted by Milena RmusAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️ 251106184756
Reposted by Milena Rmusannecollins.bsky.social @annecollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Check out our new work from Jennifer Senta, with Sonia Bishop, looking at how physiological anxiety relates to impairments in both working memory and reinforcement learning processes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgDual process impairments in reinforcement learning and working memory systems underlie learning deficits in physiological anxietyAnxiety has been robustly linked to deficits in frontal executive function including working memory (WM) and attentional control processes. However, although anxiety has also been associated with impa... 2164
Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Not one, but TWO cool preprints by Jennifer Senta! First preprint (with Anne Collins, Peter Dayan and Sonia Bishop) has a really cool use of modeling aimed at dissociating mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety-related phenotypes: osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 142
Reposted by Milena RmusEric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025In 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. 1136
Reposted by Milena RmusNature is Amazing @amazingnatural.bsky.social · 19/12/2024What do you suppose they are talking about? 209815
Reposted by Milena RmusPete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Hi new followers! 👋 My lab has lots of projects underway studying why *mental behavior* goes off the rails — leading to thinking patterns like rumination and worry 🌀 — and how we can make it more effective. * Sketch of our approach: tinyurl.com/r3tvmbn9 * Lab website: www.translational-lab.comtranslational-lab.comHomeThe Translational Lab focuses on when and why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety disorders and on developing potent and scalable interventions to improve it. We leverage careful expe... 53110
Milena Rmus @milenamr7.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I don't use this app to post contemplative things, but... since the application deadlines for graduate school are approaching (some might have already passed?) here are some musings that have been churning in my noggin for years now that I would like to dump somewhere 120
Reposted by Milena RmusAlireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024🚨Preprint alert🚨 In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology: **What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/7osf.ioOSF 23614
Reposted by Milena Rmusaaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 13/10/2023New lab paper! Memory precision and age each affect different decision systems. The lab's first foray into cognitive aging, fearlessly lead by Dr. Sharon Noh. Details in her 🐦🧵 twitter.com/sharon_noh/s... - and out now in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMemory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lif...Scientific Reports - Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lifespan 02713