Wei Ji Ma

Congratulations to @peiyuan9 for the 2024 Best Dissertation Award from @SocforNeuroecon !! The first paper from her thesis is out (nature.com/articles/s4159…) but stay tuned for more.

Very excited to share a new preprint where we disentangle the component processes of planning affected after damage to mPFC. With @BrainInTheMind @basvanopheusden @weijima01 @jangrohn @_Ili_Ma @thepsychologist @JohnPGrogan1 (1/6) osf.io/preprints/psya…

My former PhD student @Peiyuan9 was profiled in @_TheTransmitter for her documentary "The opposite of dying" (internationally recognized at @sheffdocfest), which she made while doing a PhD on the cognitive mechanisms of procrastination. thetransmitter.org/craft-and-care…

Interested in applying computational approaches to understand developmental changes in learning? I’ll be at #CCN2024 this week and would love to talk to anyone who may be interested in joining my new BU lab next summer as a PhD student or lab manager. Please reach out!

It's good to be back! Here are some sketches from #CogSci2024:

Why do couples look alike? 👩‍❤️‍👨 Back in 1987, researchers (Bob Zajonc, @PaulaNiedenthal et al) suggested that couples who live together grow to look alike over time. But, as the literature evolved, other researchers have cast doubt on the "facial convergence" hypothesis: THREAD🧵

🔔 Preprint alert!🔔"15-month-olds’ understanding of imitation in social and instrumental contexts" 👶 by @ShannonYasuda, @WenjieWLi, Deisy Martinez, @LakeBrenden, and me! osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/6

Lab's first paper on procrastination, by @peiyuan9. Sixteen years after I told Read Montague in my job interview that I wanted to study the topic (and he didn't laugh at me). nature.com/articles/s4159…

An accessible introduction to constructing and interpreting Bayesian models of perceptual decision-making and action. "Bayesian Models of Perception and Action" by @weijima01, @KordingLab, and @dangoldreich is available now 👉🏻 bit.ly/4bgToFp #OpenAccess

Looking for a new paradigm for your next research project? Then look no further: nature.com/articles/s4156… (1/6)

New paper out from the lab! "Sensitivity to the Instrumental Value of Choice Increases Across Development" in Psych Science. @katenuss @perrilane @HanxiaoLu1 @szorowi1 @cate_hartley journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Belated repost. It has been a great pleasure working with Paul, Tim, and Sebastian on this. Consider it an update to the 2014 paper "Changing concepts of working memory". Some of the changing concepts have now settled.

Out now in NHB (finally!), a review of visual working memory from a computational perspective, with @weijima01 @timothyfbrady and Sebastian Schneegans. nature.com/articles/s4156…