Rochelle Kaper
@rochellekaper.bsky.social
phd student @ uc irvine cog sci w/ Megan Peters.
🧠 structure learning, metacognition, perception, comp cog neuro.
https://www.rochellekaper.com/
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🧠 structure learning, metacognition, perception, comp cog neuro.
https://www.rochellekaper.com/
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Rochelle Kaper
@rochellekaper.bsky.social
· Jan 15
super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)
February 18, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)
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An Efficient Computing Theory of Prefrontal Structured Working Memory Representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706126v1
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM
An Efficient Computing Theory of Prefrontal Structured Working Memory Representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706126v1
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Our paper is now out at JNeuro! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli?
We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.
How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli?
We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.
February 17, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Our paper is now out at JNeuro! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli?
We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.
How do we avoid attentional capture by salient stimuli?
We found that inversions of singleton distractor representations support attentional suppression of salient items.
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Applications are officially OPEN! Become a student or a Teaching Assistant in #NeuromatchAcademy or #ClimatematchAcademy
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🤓 Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#ComputationalScience #OnlineLearning #GlobalLearning
➡️ Apply now: portal.neuromatchacademy.org/sign-in Applications close 15 March.
🤓 Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#ComputationalScience #OnlineLearning #GlobalLearning
February 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Applications are officially OPEN! Become a student or a Teaching Assistant in #NeuromatchAcademy or #ClimatematchAcademy
➡️ Apply now: portal.neuromatchacademy.org/sign-in Applications close 15 March.
🤓 Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#ComputationalScience #OnlineLearning #GlobalLearning
➡️ Apply now: portal.neuromatchacademy.org/sign-in Applications close 15 March.
🤓 Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#ComputationalScience #OnlineLearning #GlobalLearning
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My course notes have been updated to discuss how different models can be reframed in terms of a learning update rule (fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn...)
feedback is very welcome, as I was making it up as I was teaching the other day :-)
feedback is very welcome, as I was making it up as I was teaching the other day :-)
February 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
My course notes have been updated to discuss how different models can be reframed in terms of a learning update rule (fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn...)
feedback is very welcome, as I was making it up as I was teaching the other day :-)
feedback is very welcome, as I was making it up as I was teaching the other day :-)
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02403-w
tinyurl.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/
OSF
osf.io
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/
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New paper just published in Cerebral Cortex 🧠
Frontal midline theta synchronization causally supports updating statistical regularities, improving adaptive prediction without boosting simple performance.
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf346
@orspesthy.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Frontal midline theta synchronization causally supports updating statistical regularities, improving adaptive prediction without boosting simple performance.
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf346
@orspesthy.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Frontal theta synchronization facilitates the updating of statistical regularities, evidenced by predictive eye movements
Abstract. Frontal midline theta oscillations are key neural markers for learning, set-shifting, and adaptive behavior, signaling cognitive control and the
doi.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
New paper just published in Cerebral Cortex 🧠
Frontal midline theta synchronization causally supports updating statistical regularities, improving adaptive prediction without boosting simple performance.
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf346
@orspesthy.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
Frontal midline theta synchronization causally supports updating statistical regularities, improving adaptive prediction without boosting simple performance.
doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf346
@orspesthy.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
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📜 Very happy to see our article on domain-general metacognition now published in Psychological Sciences ! Congrats to my co-authors @khat.bsky.social, Renate Rutiku, Michał Wierzchoń, and @krsandberg.bsky.social #skudnet journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Quick thread:
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February 4, 2026 at 8:40 AM
📜 Very happy to see our article on domain-general metacognition now published in Psychological Sciences ! Congrats to my co-authors @khat.bsky.social, Renate Rutiku, Michał Wierzchoń, and @krsandberg.bsky.social #skudnet journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Quick thread:
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Final paper of my PhD 🤗
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.
However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.
However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.
Misspecified models create the appearance of adaptive control during value-based choice - Communications Psychology
In a new computational analysis of previous work, this study shows that a control-free mechanism better accounts for value-based decisions than an account that assumes top-down control invigorating th...
www.nature.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Final paper of my PhD 🤗
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.
However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.
However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Join us 7-15 Feb for Python for Computational Science Week!
🐍 Strengthen your Python skills at your own pace with light support on Reddit.
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🐍 Strengthen your Python skills at your own pace with light support on Reddit.
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#PythonWeek
February 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Join us 7-15 Feb for Python for Computational Science Week!
🐍 Strengthen your Python skills at your own pace with light support on Reddit.
🤓 Perfect for students applying to our July courses or potential TAs looking to practice.
➡️ Take the pledge: airtable.com/appIQSZMZ0Jx...
#PythonWeek
🐍 Strengthen your Python skills at your own pace with light support on Reddit.
🤓 Perfect for students applying to our July courses or potential TAs looking to practice.
➡️ Take the pledge: airtable.com/appIQSZMZ0Jx...
#PythonWeek
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"Forward and backward prediction in learning and perception"
@predictivebrain.bsky.social @clarepress.bsky.social
nice to see our work situated within a broader research program on differences between learning & perceptual predictions
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@predictivebrain.bsky.social @clarepress.bsky.social
nice to see our work situated within a broader research program on differences between learning & perceptual predictions
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Forward and backward prediction in learning and perception
Predictive processing frameworks have emphasized the role of forward prediction as a critical ingredient for learning and perceptual inference. We ant…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:07 AM
"Forward and backward prediction in learning and perception"
@predictivebrain.bsky.social @clarepress.bsky.social
nice to see our work situated within a broader research program on differences between learning & perceptual predictions
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@predictivebrain.bsky.social @clarepress.bsky.social
nice to see our work situated within a broader research program on differences between learning & perceptual predictions
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
People
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics: https://osf.io/x5atk
January 15, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics: https://osf.io/x5atk
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Massive kudos to @rochellekaper.bsky.social for incredible work putting together a super complex design, gorgeous analyses, and excellent writing. Clever, insightful, and brilliant all around! All materials and analyses shared openly too – see link for details!
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Massive kudos to @rochellekaper.bsky.social for incredible work putting together a super complex design, gorgeous analyses, and excellent writing. Clever, insightful, and brilliant all around! All materials and analyses shared openly too – see link for details!
super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 AM
super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
A normative account of human temporal structure learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698785v1
January 11, 2026 at 8:15 AM
A normative account of human temporal structure learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698785v1
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For 15(!) years I’ve been teaching introductory #MRI to grad students, and struggled to find a textbook for a wide variety of backgrounds. I'm happy to share an online textbook I created, fully open source (including code for generating figures and plots shown):
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
Introduction to Principles of MRI — Principles of MRI
larsonlab.github.io
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
For 15(!) years I’ve been teaching introductory #MRI to grad students, and struggled to find a textbook for a wide variety of backgrounds. I'm happy to share an online textbook I created, fully open source (including code for generating figures and plots shown):
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Meta-learning is expressed through altered prefrontal cortical dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.01.697272v1
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Meta-learning is expressed through altered prefrontal cortical dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.01.697272v1
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
Bringing scientific insight to the causes of individual events
www.socsci.uci.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
Reposted by Rochelle Kaper
Happy to share this new paper from the lab led by Angus Chapman, now out in PLoS Biology! It presents an integrated spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision. @afchapman.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A dynamic spatiotemporal normalization model captures perceptual and neural effects of spatial and temporal context
The effects of spatial and temporal context on sensory systems have mostly been studied independently of each other. This study shows that the modulation of visual perception and neural activity by th...
journals.plos.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy to share this new paper from the lab led by Angus Chapman, now out in PLoS Biology! It presents an integrated spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision. @afchapman.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
is it considered character building when you have to cut your finished 2500 word proposal to 1000🥶
December 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
is it considered character building when you have to cut your finished 2500 word proposal to 1000🥶