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| 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 |