Payam Piray

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. here: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

Preprint for "Consolidation of Sequential Planning" with @evanrussek and @NeilBurgess10. We demonstrate the neural representations supporting sequential planning and the effect of memory consolidation upon them: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…. As talk, see also: youtube.com/watch?v=0QcNtz…

📣 I'll be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025. Take a look at the lab website and the FAQ for prospective students: piraylab.com/join Feel free to reach out if you have questions.

It took a while, but this paper with @nathanieldaw is now published in @NatureComms. Reviewers had many good comments, so lots of new stuff here, especially on the computational mechanisms of how people dissociate volatility from stochasticity: nature.com/articles/s4146…

First paper of my PhD out in current biology: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I’ll be recruiting 1-2 graduate students for Fall 2025 to work on visual learning generalization in humans and artificial neural networks. If you’re interested, apply! Check out our lab website (snailab.ca) and reach out if you need more info. RT please.

UC Davis depts of statistics & linguistics invite applications for Assistant Professor position in NLP, focusing on theoretical foundations of large language models: generalization, compositionality, interpretability, reliability, and cognitive modeling recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06756

Really exciting work on how the brain makes social cause inference! It was a blessing to work with Ali et al on this project!

Excited to share our new paper @NeuroCellPress. Using fMRI, TMS and modelling we show that hippocampus infers responsibility when multiple people achieve an outcome together. With Shuyi Luo, @Caro_Harbison @payampiray and Matthew Rushworth. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🧠💻 @USCPsychology seeks tenure-track Assistant Professor in Brain & Cognitive Sciences with a focus on computational language research. Join us at the forefront of AI-driven cognition studies! Apply here: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele…

Excited to announce our latest paper, “Reinforced Multiple Instance Selection for Speaker Attribute Prediction,” published at #NAACL2024! 🚀📄 Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it to the conference because of my US visa. Looks like I’ll be cheering for #RLMIL from afar! 😅

We are hiring a Professional Specialist for a new NIMH Conte Center for Understanding Latent Cause Inference in Health and Illness shared between Princeton and Rutgers (the job is at Princeton, working directly with me, and is partly a position in my lab). More info: /1

stoked to announce i'll be starting my lab at USC jan 2025! rouhanilab.com please RT (here or IRL): i'll be looking for a research specialist/lab manager & grad students (fall 2025); email me! (will also be giving a talk at APS tomorrow) this took entire villages...

Open postdoc position in Armita Golkar’s lab at @Stockholm_Uni on neural dynamics of social (associative) threat learning and regulation. Come join us! su.se/english/about-…

Are you a fan of @payampiray's Linear RL model but not of MATLAB? I coded a barebones version of it in Python! github.com/ArminBaz/Linea…