Paul Sharp
@paul_b_sharp
Assistant Professor @BarIlanU || Computational Cognitive Science & Psychiatry
To celebrate the new year, reposting our paper that develops a computational theory for why we plan forward or backward in time @NatureHumBehav using predictive representations (SR/PR). paper: rdcu.be/dNWDV blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/people-e…
New preprint! 🤖🧠 The cost of thinking is similar between large reasoning models and humans 👉 osf.io/preprints/psya… w/ Ferdinando D'Elia, @AndrewLampinen, and @ev_fedorenko (1/6)
We also have 🚨2 open PostDoc 🚨 positions for those with strong coding and math backgrounds. See official ad below. Competitive funding for at least 3 years with the option to extend. #cognitivescience #postdoc #computationalneuroscience
🚨 Fully Funded PhD positions Gonda Brain Institute, Sharp Lab We will explore how people build & deploy world models efficiently for planning & deciding. We will also investigate how world model construal & use is biased in anxiety. Deadline: 1 Sept 2025. Please share!
The @CO3lab at @Cornell is hiring a lab manager. Focus: Computational music cognition Skills: Python, R, machine learning, strong work ethic Role: Run global experiments, develop experiments, grow as a researcher. I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025—feel free to reach out!
🚨 Thrilled the lab has won the Bereshit ISF grant. We will pursue neurocomputational models of how we plan efficiently using MEG VR and online tasks. This ~1 million USD grant will fund many positions - ads out soon! Sharplabbiu.github.io @BarIlanU @GondaBrain
Thrilled to share 🎉 I’ve received my first solo grant 🤗 A 5-year 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 grant to study how #sexualviolence shapes perception & behavior around #socialtouch 💔🫂🧠 Grateful to ISF for the chance to do this important work.
Centaur may have learned a shortcut that explains away psychological tasks. @PsychBoyH Link to preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…
New review on computational approaches to studying human planning out now in @TrendsCognSci! Really enjoyed having the opportunity to write something broader about the field with the help of @evanrussek @marcelomattar @weijima01 and @cocosci_lab cell.com/trends/cogniti…
When Shada Khatib, an Arab Israeli student, was killed by an Iranian missile, Israelis’ responses showed the strength of Arab-Jewish bonds—and the forces that threaten them, writes Fania Oz-Salzberger. wsj.com/world/middle-e… via @WSJ
🚨New paper Alert! So many people ask AI for emotional support – but is it like support from a human? Our new paper published in @NatureHumBehav explores whether people value #AI - generated #empathy as much as human empathy, in 9 preregistered studies with 6,282 participants.🧵
Yale Philosophy offers a course on “Formal Philosophical Methods” — a broad introduction to probability, logic, formal semantics, etc. Instructor Calum McNamara has now made all materials for the course (78 pages) freely available static1.squarespace.com/static/6255ffe…
Looks interesting!
Our new paper led by Rotem Simhon: fancy cameras and algorithms show that people's faces contains information concerning the specific emotions they feel even when human observers can't detect them, and this isn't just about valence\arousal. Read it here: rdcu.be/esh6o
Now that we’re out, I can speak freely about some of the things I’ve learned having accidentally found myself in a war zone, hunkering down with Israelis and other tourists in Tel Aviv shelters: - I appear to have underestimated the power of trauma bonding - Israelis’…
As the saying went, From the river to the sea / What we need is therapy. And that includes just about every Jew and Palestinian in the region.