Patrick Cooper
@neurocoops.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist at CSIRO
Current: Human-AI collaboration 🤖🤝😀
Previous: cognitive control and theta oscillations, non-instrumental information, curiosity, EEG
Other: Mind controlled video games 🧠👾🕹
He/Him
Current: Human-AI collaboration 🤖🤝😀
Previous: cognitive control and theta oscillations, non-instrumental information, curiosity, EEG
Other: Mind controlled video games 🧠👾🕹
He/Him
🧪🤖Our latest paper: Towards a Criteria-Based Approach to Selecting Human-AI Interaction Mode is now out.
We made a handy rubric to help decisions around adding AI to your work. AI isn’t always the solution but if it is, thinking about how your workflow changes is vital!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hfm....
We made a handy rubric to help decisions around adding AI to your work. AI isn’t always the solution but if it is, thinking about how your workflow changes is vital!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hfm....
Towards a Criteria‐Based Approach to Selecting Human‐AI Interaction Mode
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are now prevalent in many knowledge work industries. As AI becomes more capable and interactive, there is a growing need for guidance on how to employ AI most effec...
dx.doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
🧪🤖Our latest paper: Towards a Criteria-Based Approach to Selecting Human-AI Interaction Mode is now out.
We made a handy rubric to help decisions around adding AI to your work. AI isn’t always the solution but if it is, thinking about how your workflow changes is vital!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hfm....
We made a handy rubric to help decisions around adding AI to your work. AI isn’t always the solution but if it is, thinking about how your workflow changes is vital!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hfm....
I completed my first game jam on Sunday. Two weeks to make a game from scratch around the theme of “replicate.”
If you have s&box (or want to download it) you can check it out: sbox.game/veggiepatty/...
If you have s&box (or want to download it) you can check it out: sbox.game/veggiepatty/...
July 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I completed my first game jam on Sunday. Two weeks to make a game from scratch around the theme of “replicate.”
If you have s&box (or want to download it) you can check it out: sbox.game/veggiepatty/...
If you have s&box (or want to download it) you can check it out: sbox.game/veggiepatty/...
Good luck to all the DECRA applicants, hoping you get some helpful comments today!
June 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Good luck to all the DECRA applicants, hoping you get some helpful comments today!
Gentle error messages have nothing on R
April 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Gentle error messages have nothing on R
This is such a great package!
🧵 1/5 Excited to share our latest @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🧪 #paper:
UnfoldSim.jl
New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond!
📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo...
With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe
UnfoldSim.jl
New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond!
📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo...
With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe
March 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is such a great package!
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
I am I'm this picture and I don't like it
March 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I am I'm this picture and I don't like it
We’ve just had our work on assessing how trust in AI support develops accepted as late-breaking work at CHI25. DOI is still to go live but you can check it out here in the meantime:
camps.aptaracorp.com/ACM_PMS/PMS/...
(I’ll update the thread when the DOI is live).
camps.aptaracorp.com/ACM_PMS/PMS/...
(I’ll update the thread when the DOI is live).
Trust in AI is dynamically updated based on users' expectations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719870
CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, April 2025
camps.aptaracorp.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
We’ve just had our work on assessing how trust in AI support develops accepted as late-breaking work at CHI25. DOI is still to go live but you can check it out here in the meantime:
camps.aptaracorp.com/ACM_PMS/PMS/...
(I’ll update the thread when the DOI is live).
camps.aptaracorp.com/ACM_PMS/PMS/...
(I’ll update the thread when the DOI is live).
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
🧠 💡 PhD scholarships available! 💡🧠
The CogNeuro group at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is on the hunt for talented students to work on face and object perception using EEG and neural decoding. Learn more here 👇 and get in touch!
Project 1: shorturl.at/0NwQl
Project 2: shorturl.at/yTdqG
The CogNeuro group at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is on the hunt for talented students to work on face and object perception using EEG and neural decoding. Learn more here 👇 and get in touch!
Project 1: shorturl.at/0NwQl
Project 2: shorturl.at/yTdqG
February 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🧠 💡 PhD scholarships available! 💡🧠
The CogNeuro group at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is on the hunt for talented students to work on face and object perception using EEG and neural decoding. Learn more here 👇 and get in touch!
Project 1: shorturl.at/0NwQl
Project 2: shorturl.at/yTdqG
The CogNeuro group at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is on the hunt for talented students to work on face and object perception using EEG and neural decoding. Learn more here 👇 and get in touch!
Project 1: shorturl.at/0NwQl
Project 2: shorturl.at/yTdqG
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
Ever wonder how well frontier models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Flash & Pro, GPT-4o, o1-mini & o1-preview) play Atari, chess, or tic-tac-toe?
We present LMAct, an in-context imitation learning benchmark with long multimodal demonstrations (arxiv.org/abs/2412.01441).
🧵 1/N
We present LMAct, an in-context imitation learning benchmark with long multimodal demonstrations (arxiv.org/abs/2412.01441).
🧵 1/N
December 3, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Ever wonder how well frontier models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Flash & Pro, GPT-4o, o1-mini & o1-preview) play Atari, chess, or tic-tac-toe?
We present LMAct, an in-context imitation learning benchmark with long multimodal demonstrations (arxiv.org/abs/2412.01441).
🧵 1/N
We present LMAct, an in-context imitation learning benchmark with long multimodal demonstrations (arxiv.org/abs/2412.01441).
🧵 1/N
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
Why do I think these instances are interesting? To me, these are not just random instances that LLMs are sometimes wrong (like people), these are *diagnostic* that LLMs do not have a world model and are not “reasoning”, it exposes the basic architecture. Why? 1/n
thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"
(more examples below)
(more examples below)
December 1, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Why do I think these instances are interesting? To me, these are not just random instances that LLMs are sometimes wrong (like people), these are *diagnostic* that LLMs do not have a world model and are not “reasoning”, it exposes the basic architecture. Why? 1/n
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet…
📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition.
Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov
📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition.
Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 11:30 PM
🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet…
📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition.
Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov
📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition.
Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
The craziest paper I have ever done is this thought experiment with Albert Gidon and Matt Larkum.
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment
The authors of this Essay examine whether action potentials cause consciousness in a three-step thought experiment that assumes technology is advanced enough to fully manipulate our brains.
journals.plos.org
November 20, 2024 at 12:41 PM
The craziest paper I have ever done is this thought experiment with Albert Gidon and Matt Larkum.
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
New in NHB: We systematically replicated 26 of 41 PNAS social science studies that used MTurk. The approach provides a proof-of-concept for using decision markets to select findings to replicate.
Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Examining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market - Nature Human Behaviour
This study finds that decision markets can be a useful tool for selecting studies for replication. For a sample of 26 online experiments published in PNAS selected by a decision market, the authors fi...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:59 AM
New in NHB: We systematically replicated 26 of 41 PNAS social science studies that used MTurk. The approach provides a proof-of-concept for using decision markets to select findings to replicate.
Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Replication effect sizes were 45% of original effect sizes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
Anthropic posts something a lot of social scientists studying AI have been thinking - you need to apply basic statistical methods to AI evaluations!
A solid attempt to lay out how to do better tests with basic methodology. https://buff.ly/3OijwX0
A solid attempt to lay out how to do better tests with basic methodology. https://buff.ly/3OijwX0
November 19, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Anthropic posts something a lot of social scientists studying AI have been thinking - you need to apply basic statistical methods to AI evaluations!
A solid attempt to lay out how to do better tests with basic methodology. https://buff.ly/3OijwX0
A solid attempt to lay out how to do better tests with basic methodology. https://buff.ly/3OijwX0
Our latest work, up as a preprint to enjoy.
We gave LLMs tasks adapted from experimental psychology to see how they contribute to teamwork.
We found LLMs were reasonable at monitoring tasks but were poor at tasks requiring planning and strategising.
We gave LLMs tasks adapted from experimental psychology to see how they contribute to teamwork.
We found LLMs were reasonable at monitoring tasks but were poor at tasks requiring planning and strategising.
How well do Large Language Models perform as team members? Testing teamwork capabilities of LLMs: http://osf.io/qyfrw/
November 15, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Our latest work, up as a preprint to enjoy.
We gave LLMs tasks adapted from experimental psychology to see how they contribute to teamwork.
We found LLMs were reasonable at monitoring tasks but were poor at tasks requiring planning and strategising.
We gave LLMs tasks adapted from experimental psychology to see how they contribute to teamwork.
We found LLMs were reasonable at monitoring tasks but were poor at tasks requiring planning and strategising.
Our latest paper: "Users do not trust recommendations from a large language model more than AI-sourced snippets” www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Frontiers | Users do not trust recommendations from a large language model more than AI-sourced snippets
BackgroundThe ability of large language models to generate general purpose natural language represents a significant step forward in creating systems able to...
www.frontiersin.org
October 8, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Our latest paper: "Users do not trust recommendations from a large language model more than AI-sourced snippets” www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Looking up some cognitive task analysis figures this morning and kept finding those slides with the blue background and yellow text.
Took me down a rabbit hole about why these things were everywhere. Someone else had the same idea.
en.rattibha.com/thread/12942...
Took me down a rabbit hole about why these things were everywhere. Someone else had the same idea.
en.rattibha.com/thread/12942...
May 8, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Looking up some cognitive task analysis figures this morning and kept finding those slides with the blue background and yellow text.
Took me down a rabbit hole about why these things were everywhere. Someone else had the same idea.
en.rattibha.com/thread/12942...
Took me down a rabbit hole about why these things were everywhere. Someone else had the same idea.
en.rattibha.com/thread/12942...
Reposted by Patrick Cooper
New preprint! Mind the blank: behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of absent-mindedness
With Esteban Munoz Musat, @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
With Esteban Munoz Musat, @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
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https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.11.579845v1…
February 12, 2024 at 10:09 PM
New preprint! Mind the blank: behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of absent-mindedness
With Esteban Munoz Musat, @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
With Esteban Munoz Musat, @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
Emerging researcher @bellabower.bsky.social giving a fantastic overview of her work on how room characteristics influence brain and behaviour!
November 28, 2023 at 7:51 AM
Emerging researcher @bellabower.bsky.social giving a fantastic overview of her work on how room characteristics influence brain and behaviour!
Dan F @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social had “results so nice he found them twice” finding null effects for visual ERPs scaling with probability.
November 28, 2023 at 3:43 AM
Dan F @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social had “results so nice he found them twice” finding null effects for visual ERPs scaling with probability.
Julian Matthews @quining.bsky.social suggesting a reframing of some classic metacognitive effects as motivation related! #ACNS2023
November 28, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Julian Matthews @quining.bsky.social suggesting a reframing of some classic metacognitive effects as motivation related! #ACNS2023
