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Younes Strittmatter

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PhD student @Princeton.

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Next in the Glushko Dissertation Prize Symposium, Marina Dubova @mdubova.bsky.social presents Cognitive Mechanisms of Discovery, exploring how people generate, evaluate, and refine new ideas and explanations. #CogSci2026
Marina Dubova presents during CogSci 2026, standing beside a clear lectern while holding a presentation remote. Behind her, a slide titled “how can we better learn about the world?” explores how cognitive science can test intuitions about the scientific method. The slide questions ideas such as Occam’s razor, whether good experiments should aim to falsify theories or distinguish between competing models, and features a cartoon ghost wearing a graduation cap at the center.
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Akshay K. Jagadish @akjagadish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Co-let w/ @younesstrittmatter.bsky.social Kudos to the all-start team of @georgekafetzis.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social, @ericschulz.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @suyoghc.bsky.social, and @cocoscilab.bsky.social
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Akshay K. Jagadish @akjagadish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist" Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Very excited to share that my lab will be moving to Princeton (Neuroscience & Psychology) this fall. I'll be recruiting at all levels (more info to come soon), please share / get in touch if you're interested in joining!
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Marina Dubova @mdubova.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So honored to receive the Glushko prize, and just grateful that @cogscisociety.bsky.social is willing to recognize whatever I’m doing as the study of the “mind” :)
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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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
Speaker invitation for journal club by MedARC.
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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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-...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Multimodal Human Sensing and Advanced Behavioral Data Analysis - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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...
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PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasound Neuromodulation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD 'Computational Affective Neuroscience and Neuromodulation' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Younes Strittmatter @younesstrittmatter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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/...
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(PDF) When Collaboration Beats Ability: Mixed-Ability Teams Can Outperform High-Ability Teams Under Coordination Demands
PDF | Collective intelligence describes the capacity of groups to achieve levels of performance that cannot be explained by the abilities of their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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)
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A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - Nature Communications
Multi-step planning is a challenge for LLMs. Here, the authors introduce a brain-inspired Modular Agentic Planner that decomposes planning into specialized LLM modules, improving performance across tasks and highlighting the value of cognitive neuroscience for LLM design.
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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Brenden Lake @brendenlake.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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)
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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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 🧵
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Convergent neural dynamical systems for task control in artificial networks and human brains
The ability to switch between tasks is a core component of human intelligence, yet a mechanistic understanding of this capacity has remained elusive. Long-standing debates over how task switching is i...
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Cody Dong @codydong.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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)
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Samuel Liebana @samuel-liebana.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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!
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Dopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectories
Longitudinal tracking of long-term learning behavior and striatal dopamine reveals that dopamine teaching signals shape individually diverse yet systematic learning trajectories, captured mathematical...
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jsPsych @jspsych.org · 15/05/2025
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. 🥳
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Stefano Sarao Mannelli @stefsm.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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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RL Perceptron: Generalization Dynamics of Policy Learning in High Dimensions
A solvable model for reinforcement learning, the RL perceptron, provides a mathematical framework to analyze learning dynamics, revealing key efficiency factors and a speed-accuracy trade-off that can...
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
👇impressed me
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Marina Dubova @mdubova.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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!
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Stefano Sarao Mannelli @stefsm.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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.
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2025 School on Analytical Connectionism
A 2-week summer course hosted at University College London on analytical tools for probing neural networks and higher-level cognition.
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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...
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jsPsych @jspsych.org · 17/03/2025
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...
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jsPsych Spring 2025
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Younes Strittmatter @younesstrittmatter.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🚀 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:
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SweetBean
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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Just published in JOSS: 'SweetBean: A declarative language for behavioral experiments with human and artificial participants' doi.org/10.21105/joss.07703
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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ever been told to ""sleep on it""? 😴 @alanajaskir.bsky.social’s research shows how snoozing helps your brain learn! #sleepbenefits #replay #hippocampus #academicsky #standupforscience
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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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
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Katja Kleespies @katjakleespies.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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Sleep Resolves Competition Between Explicit and Implicit Memory Systems
Sleep supports stabilization of explicit, declarative memory and benefits implicit, procedural memory. In addition, sleep may change the quality of memory representations. Explicit and implicit learni...
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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...
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Eric Schulz @ericschulz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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.
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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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...
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GitHub - marcelbinz/Psych-201
Contribute to marcelbinz/Psych-201 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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!
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Major depression symptom severity associations with willingness to exert effort and patch foraging strategy | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Major depression symptom severity associations with willingness to exert effort and patch foraging strategy - Volume 54 Issue 15
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Chad C. Williams @chadcwilliams.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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...
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GitHub - chadcwilliams/quickeeg
Contribute to chadcwilliams/quickeeg development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Sebastian Musslick @musslick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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/
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Automated Research Assistant
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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just published in JOSS: 'AutoRA: Automated Research Assistant for Closed-Loop Empirical Research' doi.org/10.21105/joss.06839
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