Sam Gershman
@gershbrain
Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
What are the most compelling real-world applications of cognitive science? I'm looking for empirical papers (not opinions/reviews).
I love this project, which feels like it opens many doors.
Looking for a distraction (for some reason)? May I interest you in this cool new paper on "Blending simulation and abstraction for physical reasoning"? (by Sosa, Gershman, and me) paper link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… OSF: osf.io/preprints/psya…
Great opportunity here!!
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me on problems related to meta-learning and probabilistic representation learning in the brain. Perks: i) the amazing research community at @bcm_neurosci and @RiceNeuro. ii) Houston food is DELICIOUS (and cheap) jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoctor…
we've finally updated our 2⃣ year old preprint on action chunking as (conditional) policy compression! this was a lesson in perseverance and not giving up on your ideas...work with @gershbrain & @AnnHuang42 ✨ (1/3) osf.io/preprints/psya…
I advised a physics student and I kept worrying that the physics police would burst in to take her away because she wasn’t doing “real” physics. But I realized that if it’s interesting to physicists, it’s physics.
I feel like the critique that the physics Nobel is going to computer science misunderstands the culture of physics. They aren’t ceding the prize to cs, they’re claiming it as a branch of physics
[Please retweet!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary! Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/psya…
If you're interested in the future of scholarly publishing, check out this panel discussion (open to the public): libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/13285829