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Anybody can make a science film now! Turn a dense technical paper into a video accessible to a broad audience. I am quite impressed. The paper might be my last on multisensory perception. This project was started in 2008 and took 18 years to get published. Read more: acerbilab.org/one-cause-or...

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One cause or two?

How does your brain know that a sight and a sound belong together? A short film about causal inference in perception, and about the shapes of its two ingredients: the blur of our senses, and our expec...

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was one of the cleanest, most straightforward projects I've ever done, from the hypothesis to the design to the conclusion. Of course still a lot of models, and it was made to look easy just because @jordanlei.bsky.social was so capable!

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW PAPER on backward reasoning in a single-player puzzle game, based on so-called AND-OR trees: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW PREPRINT ON LAB CULTURE: What is it, how is it related to mentorship, and how to document it? With @rademaker.bsky.social and Chris Pfund. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Thinking of applying to US-based Ph.D. programs in neuroscience, psychology, or cognitive science? We’ve got your back! NYU’s Application Support Group is a student-led, free mentorship program offering 1-on-1 support and guidance. Apply now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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NYU Application Support Group Matching Form

Dear Prospective Neuroscience & Psychology PhD Students, We are a group of current NYU Neuroscience & Psychology PhD students who would like to help you with your PhD applications. We want to support...

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In our lab, we use a lot of planning tasks that are deterministic for simplicity. But stochasticity is an important aspect of real-world planning. Jordan Lei measured how the amount of stochasticity in the environment affects how much/deeply people plan: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Much better description than what I gave

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Liu, Shuze @liushuze.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

@weijima.bsky.social, @lacerbi.bsky.social, Trevor, and I have a new preprint on Bayesian models of multisensory perception! We systematically inspect the underexplored degrees of freedom in Bayesian models, squeezing out their best capability in capturing human behavior. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This is an unusual one: the project started in 2009, with Trevor Holland collecting data in an auditory-visual integration paradigm with many conditions within subjects. But modeling it remained challenging over the years until Luigi Acerbi and Shuze Liu took it on. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I guess there has to be a moment to resume some social media activity. Here's a preprint from my PhD student, now postdoc Pei Yuan Zhang. A normative model (Bellman equations) works remarkably well to account for a range of qualitative effects related to procrastination. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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