Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Björn Lindström
Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets arxiv.org/abs/2602.09997
Come to my talks at CogSci and IC2S2 if you want to hear more about this project!
Funded by @erc.europa.eu and @kawresearch.bsky.social
Two poster presentations from my group at #sbdm2026 in Paris. Magdalena Soukupová on the social learning mechanisms of human goal selection and @pierreledenmat.bsky.social on (lack of) mentalizing in social learning.
Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!
Lucas Gautheron
Björn Lindström
Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard!
DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments
From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Björn Lindström
Björn Lindström
LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so.
We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Awesome results from @fluketc.bsky.social @dudman.bsky.social and team, both for dopamine field and for all that train animals in tasks www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous:
Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals🧪
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a wide variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday behaviors.
