Younes Strittmatter
@younesstrittmatter.bsky.social
PhD student @Princeton.
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Next in the Glushko Dissertation Prize Symposium, Marina Dubova @mdubova.bsky.social presents Cognitive Mechanisms of Discovery, exploring how people generate, evaluate, and refine new ideas and explanations. #CogSci2026
July 25, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Next in the Glushko Dissertation Prize Symposium, Marina Dubova @mdubova.bsky.social presents Cognitive Mechanisms of Discovery, exploring how people generate, evaluate, and refine new ideas and explanations. #CogSci2026
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Co-let w/ @younesstrittmatter.bsky.social
Kudos to the all-start team of @georgekafetzis.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social, @ericschulz.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @suyoghc.bsky.social, and @cocoscilab.bsky.social
Kudos to the all-start team of @georgekafetzis.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social, @ericschulz.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @suyoghc.bsky.social, and @cocoscilab.bsky.social
1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist"
Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵
Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵
June 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Co-let w/ @younesstrittmatter.bsky.social
Kudos to the all-start team of @georgekafetzis.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social, @ericschulz.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @suyoghc.bsky.social, and @cocoscilab.bsky.social
Kudos to the all-start team of @georgekafetzis.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social, @ericschulz.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @suyoghc.bsky.social, and @cocoscilab.bsky.social
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1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist"
Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵
Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵
June 26, 2026 at 8:49 PM
1/ 🚨 New preprint: "Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist"
Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵
Introducing AutoCog 🤖 — a fully autonomous AI system that runs the entire scientific discovery cycle in cognitive science to surface novel theories of human behavior 🧵
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Very excited to share that my lab will be moving to Princeton (Neuroscience & Psychology) this fall. I'll be recruiting at all levels (more info to come soon), please share / get in touch if you're interested in joining!
June 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Very excited to share that my lab will be moving to Princeton (Neuroscience & Psychology) this fall. I'll be recruiting at all levels (more info to come soon), please share / get in touch if you're interested in joining!
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So honored to receive the Glushko prize, and just grateful that @cogscisociety.bsky.social is willing to recognize whatever I’m doing as the study of the “mind” :)
SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social) has received a 2026 Glushko Dissertation Prize from the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation.
The prize recognizes recent Ph.D. dissertations for groundbreaking work in cognitive science.
The prize recognizes recent Ph.D. dissertations for groundbreaking work in cognitive science.
Marina Dubova receives Dissertation Prize
The Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation have awarded SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova a 2026 Glushko Dissertation Prize. The prize recognizes up to five rece...
www.santafe.edu
May 29, 2026 at 2:22 AM
So honored to receive the Glushko prize, and just grateful that @cogscisociety.bsky.social is willing to recognize whatever I’m doing as the study of the “mind” :)
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Today I will present our work on CorText and how to fuse neural data with LLMs in the MedARC Journal Club! I’m thankful for the invitation and looking forward! 🧠🌸
Join online:
2:15 PM UTC
meet.google.com/bof-ikcz-ygh
Join online:
2:15 PM UTC
meet.google.com/bof-ikcz-ygh
May 19, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Today I will present our work on CorText and how to fuse neural data with LLMs in the MedARC Journal Club! I’m thankful for the invitation and looking forward! 🧠🌸
Join online:
2:15 PM UTC
meet.google.com/bof-ikcz-ygh
Join online:
2:15 PM UTC
meet.google.com/bof-ikcz-ygh
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Hiring! Please share!
Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers.
Details & applications:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers.
Details & applications:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Multimodal Human Sensing and Advanced Behavioral Data Analysis - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
www.fens.org
May 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Hiring! Please share!
Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers.
Details & applications:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers.
Details & applications:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social
>Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
>Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasound Neuromodulation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD 'Computational Affective Neuroscience and Neuromodulation' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
May 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social
>Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
>Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Too many star chefs spoil the broth.
In an Overcooked-like task, mixed teams beat uniformly strong players.
Fittingly, the project came from an interdisciplinary team: different fields, better recipe. Thanks all!
We’ll present at CogSci. See y’all there.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In an Overcooked-like task, mixed teams beat uniformly strong players.
Fittingly, the project came from an interdisciplinary team: different fields, better recipe. Thanks all!
We’ll present at CogSci. See y’all there.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) When Collaboration Beats Ability: Mixed-Ability Teams Can Outperform High-Ability Teams Under Coordination Demands
PDF | Collective intelligence describes the capacity of groups to achieve levels of performance that cannot be explained by the abilities of their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
www.researchgate.net
April 22, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Too many star chefs spoil the broth.
In an Overcooked-like task, mixed teams beat uniformly strong players.
Fittingly, the project came from an interdisciplinary team: different fields, better recipe. Thanks all!
We’ll present at CogSci. See y’all there.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In an Overcooked-like task, mixed teams beat uniformly strong players.
Fittingly, the project came from an interdisciplinary team: different fields, better recipe. Thanks all!
We’ll present at CogSci. See y’all there.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)
A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - Nature Communications
Multi-step planning is a challenge for LLMs. Here, the authors introduce a brain-inspired Modular Agentic Planner that decomposes planning into specialized LLM modules, improving performance across tasks and highlighting the value of cognitive neuroscience for LLM design.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)
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UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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Our new lab for Human & Machine Intelligence is officially open at Princeton University!
Consider applying for a PhD or Postdoc position, either through Computer Science or Psychology. You can register interest on our new website lake-lab.github.io (1/2)
Consider applying for a PhD or Postdoc position, either through Computer Science or Psychology. You can register interest on our new website lake-lab.github.io (1/2)
September 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our new lab for Human & Machine Intelligence is officially open at Princeton University!
Consider applying for a PhD or Postdoc position, either through Computer Science or Psychology. You can register interest on our new website lake-lab.github.io (1/2)
Consider applying for a PhD or Postdoc position, either through Computer Science or Psychology. You can register interest on our new website lake-lab.github.io (1/2)
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We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication.
At first, what we found was very confusing!
But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736
🧵
At first, what we found was very confusing!
But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736
🧵
July 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication.
At first, what we found was very confusing!
But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736
🧵
At first, what we found was very confusing!
But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736
🧵
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My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv...
Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv...
Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)
authors.elsevier.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv...
Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv...
Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)
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Does the brain learn by gradient descent?
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
Dopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectories
Longitudinal tracking of long-term learning behavior and striatal dopamine reveals
that dopamine teaching signals shape individually diverse yet systematic learning
trajectories, captured mathematical...
www.cell.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Does the brain learn by gradient descent?
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
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That's a wrap on our first ever hackathon! Thanks to all of the wonderful people who attended. Lots of amazing projects and collaborations got started. 🥳
May 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
That's a wrap on our first ever hackathon! Thanks to all of the wonderful people who attended. Lots of amazing projects and collaborations got started. 🥳
Reposted by Younes Strittmatter
Our paper just came out in PRX!
Congrats to Nishil Patel and the rest of the team*
TL;DR: We analyse policy learning through the lens of statphys, revealing distinct scaling regimes with sharp transitions.
🔗 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
*Seb Lee @sebgoldt.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social
Congrats to Nishil Patel and the rest of the team*
TL;DR: We analyse policy learning through the lens of statphys, revealing distinct scaling regimes with sharp transitions.
🔗 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
*Seb Lee @sebgoldt.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social
RL Perceptron: Generalization Dynamics of Policy Learning in High Dimensions
A solvable model for reinforcement learning, the RL perceptron, provides a mathematical framework to analyze learning dynamics, revealing key efficiency factors and a speed-accuracy trade-off that can...
journals.aps.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our paper just came out in PRX!
Congrats to Nishil Patel and the rest of the team*
TL;DR: We analyse policy learning through the lens of statphys, revealing distinct scaling regimes with sharp transitions.
🔗 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
*Seb Lee @sebgoldt.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social
Congrats to Nishil Patel and the rest of the team*
TL;DR: We analyse policy learning through the lens of statphys, revealing distinct scaling regimes with sharp transitions.
🔗 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
*Seb Lee @sebgoldt.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social
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As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments.
I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a Cognitive Epistemology Lab at @BerkeleyPsych in Fall 2026!
I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a Cognitive Epistemology Lab at @BerkeleyPsych in Fall 2026!
April 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments.
I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a Cognitive Epistemology Lab at @BerkeleyPsych in Fall 2026!
I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a Cognitive Epistemology Lab at @BerkeleyPsych in Fall 2026!
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Less than 10 days to apply to the last edition of the Analytical Connectionism summer school!
Deadline: April 18th 🚨
Apply here www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025/
Where? London, UK. When? Aug 25-Sep 5.
Deadline: April 18th 🚨
Apply here www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025/
Where? London, UK. When? Aug 25-Sep 5.
April 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Less than 10 days to apply to the last edition of the Analytical Connectionism summer school!
Deadline: April 18th 🚨
Apply here www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025/
Where? London, UK. When? Aug 25-Sep 5.
Deadline: April 18th 🚨
Apply here www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025/
Where? London, UK. When? Aug 25-Sep 5.
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Also on grammatical islands: backgroundedness & single event status explain variation in acceptability of single extraction of 2nd conjuncts:
?? What does she [[drink gin] and [eat _]]?
What did she [[run to the store ]and [buy_]]?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo0np...
@relbelluck.bsky.social
?? What does she [[drink gin] and [eat _]]?
What did she [[run to the store ]and [buy_]]?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo0np...
@relbelluck.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Also on grammatical islands: backgroundedness & single event status explain variation in acceptability of single extraction of 2nd conjuncts:
?? What does she [[drink gin] and [eat _]]?
What did she [[run to the store ]and [buy_]]?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo0np...
@relbelluck.bsky.social
?? What does she [[drink gin] and [eat _]]?
What did she [[run to the store ]and [buy_]]?
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo0np...
@relbelluck.bsky.social
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GPT-4 behaves just like people on a complex set of 'island' stimuli:
Backgroundedness jdgmts on base sentences predict independent acceptability jdgmts on Qs & RCs but not jdgmts on the base sentences themselves
Causal manipulation works too
@supantho.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ktvd...
Backgroundedness jdgmts on base sentences predict independent acceptability jdgmts on Qs & RCs but not jdgmts on the base sentences themselves
Causal manipulation works too
@supantho.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ktvd...
April 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
GPT-4 behaves just like people on a complex set of 'island' stimuli:
Backgroundedness jdgmts on base sentences predict independent acceptability jdgmts on Qs & RCs but not jdgmts on the base sentences themselves
Causal manipulation works too
@supantho.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ktvd...
Backgroundedness jdgmts on base sentences predict independent acceptability jdgmts on Qs & RCs but not jdgmts on the base sentences themselves
Causal manipulation works too
@supantho.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ktvd...
Reposted by Younes Strittmatter
We're hosting a hackathon in May! This is aimed at jsPsych users who want to learn how to contribute to open source software and extend jsPsych. It's free, and we'll cover travel expenses. Learn more and sign up here:
jspsych.github.io/hackathon/sp...
jspsych.github.io/hackathon/sp...
jsPsych Spring 2025
jspsych.github.io
March 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We're hosting a hackathon in May! This is aimed at jsPsych users who want to learn how to contribute to open source software and extend jsPsych. It's free, and we'll cover travel expenses. Learn more and sign up here:
jspsych.github.io/hackathon/sp...
jspsych.github.io/hackathon/sp...
🚀 I'm excited to share: *SweetBean* is now published!
It’s a ❗super simple❗ Python package for writing behavioral experiments.
Bonus feature: Use them with LLMs as synthetic participants, too.
👉 Try it out:
It’s a ❗super simple❗ Python package for writing behavioral experiments.
Bonus feature: Use them with LLMs as synthetic participants, too.
👉 Try it out:
March 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
🚀 I'm excited to share: *SweetBean* is now published!
It’s a ❗super simple❗ Python package for writing behavioral experiments.
Bonus feature: Use them with LLMs as synthetic participants, too.
👉 Try it out:
It’s a ❗super simple❗ Python package for writing behavioral experiments.
Bonus feature: Use them with LLMs as synthetic participants, too.
👉 Try it out:
Reposted by Younes Strittmatter
Just published in JOSS: 'SweetBean: A declarative language for behavioral experiments with human and artificial participants' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07703
March 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just published in JOSS: 'SweetBean: A declarative language for behavioral experiments with human and artificial participants' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07703