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🇹🇭 phd candidate w/ @lukejchang.bsky.social in the computational social affective neuroscience lab (cosanlab.com) at @DartmouthPBS.bsky.social i study social interactions & communication wasita.space
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new paper out with @ashleycleung.bsky.social and dan yurovsky in child development! 📄🔓: doi.org/10.1111/cdev... brief 🧵 below on our findings!

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

submitted 109 days ago • 71 comments

We are looking for a postdoc at the Translational Lab (translational-lab.com) at Emory! Pls 🔄 We focus on: * when & why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety * developing potent and scalable interventions A range of projects are possible w/in this scope. Informal inquiries welcome

submitted 291 days ago • 1 comment

New research from SFI’s Simon DeDeo and Claire Bergey using LLMs delves into the dynamics of conversation. 🧠 Discoveries from the CANDOR corpus reveal insights into information density, cognitive load, and the role of backchannels. Read more here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2403.08890

submitted 350 days ago • 0 comments

Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...

submitted 359 days ago • 1 comment

New paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2.

submitted 416 days ago • 1 comment

My first bsky post! New paper in Perspectives with my fantastic colleagues on why we need to better understand social interaction & how new tools are accelerating that progress.👇

submitted 438 days ago • 0 comments

📢Postdoc alert!📢 Come work with me as a Guarini Dean’s Postdoc Fellow at Dartmouth! This 2-year fellowship supports scholars whose research addresses questions about intergroup dynamics in social interactions and relationships. Apply by Feb 1! Position begins this summer apply.interfolio.com/137922

submitted 441 days ago • 0 comments

I’m pleased to announce our preprint 😃 – Toward a More Biologically Plausible Neural Network Model of Latent Cause Inference. URL: arxiv.org/abs/2312.08519 (1/N)

submitted 441 days ago • 16 comments

I'm hiring a lab manager! The Social Identity in Dialogue (SID) Lab at Dartmouth is seeking a full-time lab manager interested in the social psychological study of interracial interactions, relationships, and conversations about race. Pref. apply by Jan 9 searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/71464

submitted 456 days ago • 0 comments

*NEW* "Common ground in cooperative communication" led by @XiaoranHao and Yash Jhaveri has been accepted to @NeurIPSConf! #NeurIPS2023 We introduce the first mathematical definition of common ground, show it generalizes previous models, and derive a connection to the new cVAE!

submitted 496 days ago • 1 comment

Why do people process language differently from each other? In a new paper, @esfinn.bsky.social and I show that the “concreteness” of word meanings plays a central role in shaping our unique experiences of natural language. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below! 1/9

submitted 532 days ago • 1 comment

Pymer4 0.8.1 now has support for arm-based macs (m1, m2, etc) and Python versions up to 3.11! Sorry for the delay on this folks 😅 eshinjolly.com/pymer4/new.h...

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A short piece from Luke Chang, Jeremy Manning, Matt van der Meer, and me about the motivation behind, our experiences with, and the future of Method In Neuroscience at Dartmouth (MIND): https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/08/vox-populi-keeping-next-generation-mind

submitted 548 days ago • 0 comments

It's happening! There will be a Computational Preconference at #SPSP2024! Keep watching the convention website (and here) for details on schedule, speakers, and how you can apply to present in the data blitz! We're excited to see you in San Diego! https://spsp.org/events/annual-convention

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