Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Director Institute Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, human brain and mind, attention, predictive processing, action, consciousness, meditation
www.heleenslagter.com
Heleen Slagter
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What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]
Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.)
yalereview.org/article/mela...
Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.
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We have a fantastic team, highly interdisciplinary, witty, creative and fun 😎🌟
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Happy to share my @heinekenprizes.bsky.social
Young Scientist Award in the Social Sciences! Thanks to @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenpsychology.bsky.social for the nomination.
More on my research and dreams for the future of academia 👇
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉)
📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
yalereview.org
The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human-like linguistic and ...
How do people make choices, and what happens in our brains when we do? Anne Urai investigates how our brains process information and use it to make decisions. In applying the resulting insights to cur...
Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers
valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance,
differences in temporal dynamics a...
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