The meeting is currently organized by Ham Huang hamhuang@princeton.edu and Dr. Caroline Jahn cjahn@princeton.edu. Please email us if you’d like to subscribe to the mailing list. The meeting is supported by the labs of Drs. Jon Cohen, Yael Niv, Tim Buschman, Ken Norman, Nathaniel Daw, Tom Griffiths, Jordan Taylor, Brenden Lake, and Taylor Webb.
Friday 10:30am - 11:45 am EST @ PSH 101 (typically), and meetings are NO LONGER recorded or zoomed to encourage in-person attendence (unless otherwise requested).
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09/04 | Jake Snell | Revealing the Biases of Artificial Neural Networks by Inferring Prior Distributions |
| 09/11 | Cody Dong | Optimizing the Usefulness of Episodic Memory Retrieval for Prediction |
| 09/18 | Adam Huang | Applying Mathematics of Quantum Theory to Understand Human Cognition |
| 10/02 | Jonathan Tsay | |
| 10/16 | Dhairyya Singh | |
| 11/06 | Melody Li | |
| 11/20 | Kamesh Krishnamurthy | |
| 12/18 | Rochelle Kaper |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01/30 | Camilla van Geen | A computational account of developmental changes in fear learning and extinction |
| 02/06 | Matthew Rosenberg | Mice traverse hidden latent graphs via freely moving virtual reality |
| 02/13 | Javier Masis | Learning expectations shape cognitive control allocation |
| 02/27 | Georgy Antonov | The exploitation of uncertainty for efficient exploration, learning and planning |
| 03/20 | Brenden Lake | More accurate behavioral predictions with hybrid Bayesian-connectionist models |
| 04/03 | Nadine Dijkstra | Keeping apart imagery and perception in a generative brain |
| 04/17 | Adel Ardalan | Composing Representations and Transformation to Enable Flexible and Generalizable Cognition. Or: Tangent Spaces are All You Need |
| 04/24 | Mohan Gupta | Lumping or Splitting: How Context Shapes Motor Sequence Representations in Humans and Recurrent Neural Networks |
| 05/15 | Jonathan Nicholas | Flexible decisions arise from resource-rational episodic memory sampling |
| 05/22 | Declan Campell | From seeing to thinking: evaluating the mechanisms underlying visual reasoning in VLMs |
| 05/29 | Rodrigo Carrasco Davis | Learning and Replay under the Curse of Generalization |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09/19 | Zhu Jian-qiao | Three Ways of Using LLM Embeddings in Cognitive Science |
| 09/26 | Sebastian Musslick | Automated Scientific Discovery of Mind and Brain |
| 10/24 | Matt Nassar | Latent states part two: learning temporal structures and generalizations |
| 10/31 | Marina Dubova | Excess Capacity Learning |
| 11/14 | Ari Kahn | Predictive Models in Planning and Decision Making |
| 11/21 | Ham Huang | Reward inequity disrupts reinforcement learning |
| 12/05 | Ellie Holton | Learning without forgetting: Trade-offs in knowledge structuring for humans and neural networks |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/24 | Mostafa Abdou | Leveraging large language models to estimate clinically relevant psychological constructs from psychotherapy transcripts |
| 2/7 | Qinpu He | Dynamics of neural representations during the learning of a compositional tasks |
| 2/14 | Harrison Ritz | Dynamic neural control of task representations in humans and neural networks |
| 2/21 | Mohan Gupta | I Need a Break: Task Similarity’s Effect on Memory Formation and Fatigue in Motor Skill Learning |
| 03/14 | Branson Byers | Tractability and Goal Selection |
| 03/28 | Nathaniel Daw | Automated discovery of interpretable cognitive models |
| 04/04 | Alex Nguyen | A Computational model of Representational Change in the Hippocampus during Discrimination Learning |
| 05/23 | Maya Malaviya | Efficient Teaching in Continuous Spaces |
| 05/30 | Isabel Berwian | Predicting response to CBT-based interventions with individual learning abilities |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09/20 | Jon Cohen | A Unifying Information Theoretic Principle Underlying Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Function |
| 10/04 | Dylan Rich | dynamic code in the hippocampus for learning and forgetting |
| 10/11 | Mousa Karayanni | Neural correlates of few-shot learning in the Orbitofrontal cortex |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/22 | Oded Bein | Learning and updating structured knowledge |
| 02/19 | Sam Zorowitz | The value of free choice in anxious individuals |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 02/05, 02/12, 02/26 | Qihong Lu, Qiong Zhang, Payam Piray, Sreejan, Carlos, Simon, Flora, Rachel, Mayank, Erin | Metalearning |
| 03/19, 03/26 | Ruairidh Battleday, Taylor Webb, Simon, Bill, Bas | Analogy and compositionality |
| 04/02, 04/09, 04/16 | Mayank, Sashank, Rachit Dubey, Alex Libby, Fred, Tyler, Caroline, Eleni, Camden | Explore v. Exploit, ITC and Control |
| 04/23, 04/30, 05/07 | Laura, Flora, Sebastian, Mayank, Matt Panichello, Tyler, Abby | Constraints on WM and Control |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09/04 | David L. Barack | Information Seeking and Learning in Complex Environments |
| 10/02 | Sashank Pisupati | Maladaptive avoidance: A latent cause perspective |
| 10/30 | Robert Yang | Machine evolution of olfactory systems |
| 11/06 | Sreejan Kumar | Meta-Learning of Compositional Task Distributions in Humans and Machines |
| 11/27 | Mingyu Song | Learning multi-dimensional rules via reinforcement learning and hypothesis testing |
| 12/04 | Sebastian Musslick | Autonomous empirical research |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10/09 and 10/16 | Sashank Pisupati, Erin Grant, Neil Garrett, Sean Allen, Ruairidh Battleday, Isabel Berwian, Fred Callaway, Bas van Opheusden, Caroline Jahn, Sina Tafazoli | Latent cause inference, instrumental conditioning, task learning and planning |
| 10/23 | Qihong Lu, Andre Beukers, Qiong Zhang | Encoding strategies / segmentation for episodic memory |
| 11/20 | Andre Beukers, Taylor Webb, Paul Krueger | Division of labor / Interactions between working memory and episodic memory |
| 12/11 and 12/18 | Zack, Simon N. Segert, Steven M. Frankland, Ishita Dasgupta, Michael Chang, Mark Ho, Isabel Berwian | Learning of “basis sets” / “symmetry functions” useful for generalization / extrapolation |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01/17 | Ari Kahn | Inferring Structure from Sequences |
| 01/31 | Nina Rouhani | Reward prediction errors enhance memory and segment past experiences |
| 02/07 | Payam Piray | A common model explaining flexible decision making, grid fields and cognitive control |
| 02/21 | Yeon Soon Shin | Quantifying the latent-cause inference process |
| 02/28 | Ishita Dasgupta | Learning causal reasoning |
| 03/06 | Rachit Dubey | Aha! moments as a form of meta-cognitive prediction errors |
| 03/13 | Mark Ho | Meta-Reasoning about Partial Plans |
| 03/27 | Mayank Agrawal | The Temporal Structure of Cognitive Control Costs: A Normative Account of Mental Fatigue and Boredom |
| 04/17 | Maëlle Gueguen | Cortical dynamics of outcome processing during reinforcement learning: Insights from invasive electrophysiology in humans |
| 04/24 | Thiago Tarraf Varella | Phase transitions in vocal development are driven by energy-information balance |
| 05/15 | Qiong Zhang | A resource-rational analysis of human memory search |
| 05/22 | Bob Wilson | Information and randomization in exploration and exploitation |
| 05/29 | Daniel B. Bennett | A model of mood as integrated advantage |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | Qihong Lu | Learning to use episodic memory |
| 10/25 | Karan Grewal | Chaining and the Historical Extensions of Adjective Use |
| 11/01 | Matt Panichello | Neural mechanisms of selection in visual working memory |
| 11/08 | James Antony | March madness: an fMRI study of continuously updated surprise and suspense during basketball-watching |
| 11/15 | Marius Cătălin Iordan | Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine Learning Analysis of Large-Scale Text Corpora |
| 12/06 | Marcelo G Mattar | Memory mechanisms predict sampling biases in sequential decision tasks |
| 12/13 | Payam Piray | A common model explaining flexible decision making, grid fields and cognitive control |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01/29 | Angela Radulescu and Daniel Bennett | Individual differences in attention allocation during value construction |
| 02/15 | Yunshu Fan | Neural mechanisms underlying reward-biased visual decisions |
| 02/22 | Sebastian Musslick | On the Rational Bounds of Cognitive Control |
| 03/01 | Ishita Dasgupta | Amortized inference in humans and machines: An algorithmic account of ecological rationality |
| 03/15 | Daniel Takahashi | Functional ultrasound imaging of a vocal communication circuit |
| 03/29 | Sebastian Musslick, Anastasia Bizyaeva | Stability-Flexibility Dilemma in Cognitive Control: A Dynamical System Perspective |
| 04/05 | Richard Zemel | Controlling the Black Box: Learning Manipulable and Fair Representations |
| 04/12 | Laura Bustamante | Motivation for cognitive and physical effort in depression |
| 04/19 | Randy O’Reilly | Predictive Learning of Goals and Motor Plans |
| 04/26 | Andre Beukers | Modeling Working and Episodic Memory: Prospective Memory and the N-back Task |
| 05/03 | Taylor Webb, Steven Frankland | Extracting and Utilizing Abstract, Structured Representations for Analogy |
| 05/10 | Camden MacDowell | Dynamic motifs capture brain-wide patterns of neural activity |
| 05/17 | T.S. Jayram | Controlling Attention To Solve Working Memory Tasks Using a Memory-Augmented Neural Network |
| 06/07 | Sara Aronowitz | Learning through Simulation |
| 06/14 | Jennifer Bussell | Orbitofrontal representations of information in mice desiring to know |
| 07/26 | Kiyohito Iigaya | The value of what’s to come: Neural mechanisms coupling prediction error and reward anticipation |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09/14 | Robert Hawkins | Coordinating on shared meaning in communication |
| 09/21 | Alex Libby | Sustained and Dynamic Representations Support Contextual Sensory Processing |
| 09/28 | N.A. | PDP symposium: https://pdpsymposium.princeton.edu/ |
| 10/12 | Matt Nassar | Learning outside of the vacuum: exploring the interactions between learning and memory |
| 10/19 | Rachit Dubey | Understanding curiosity and exploration in human and reinforcement learning agents |
| 10/19 | Fred Callaway | Attention allocation in decision making as optimal sequential sampling |
| 11/09 | Andre Beuker | On the interactions between knowledge & learning |
| 11/16 | Thomas Langlois | Visual Memory Biases Reflect Encoding Precision not Categorical Perception |
| 11/16 | William D. Thompson | Semantic Alignment Across Languages |
| 11/30 | Jon Cohen | Expected Value of Control: Theoretical Constructs and Methods |
| 12/07 | Bas Rokers | The Neural Basis of a Common Deficit in 3D Motion Perception |