In 2011, my interests in cognitive neuroscience converged on one stubborn intuition: it made no sense that how the brain learns and how it pays attention should be two fundamentally different processes.
New preprint w/ @fredcallaway.bsky.social! How does the brain decide which computations to run? We combine rational meta-reasoning with a meta-learning algorithm to build a recurrent network that learns to select computations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Narrowing Boundaries: Mental Fatigue Reduces the Amount of Evidence that People Use when Making Decisions under Risk: https://osf.io/x5zys
#PuG crowd: interested in cognitive control? Come to our symposium “Cognitive Control: Domain-General, Domain-Specific, or Neither?” happening on Friday at 2 pm (room: HS07). We have a fantastic line-up: @annalschubert.bsky.social, Linda Bräutigam, @sarahdepue.bsky.social, Daxun Zhu, and myself. 👇