Yang Xiang
yangxiang.bsky.social
Yang Xiang
@yangxiang.bsky.social
Psych PhD student @Harvard
Reposted by Yang Xiang
This is one of the most outstanding examples of circuit understanding I've seen in a long time. The unification of theory and experiment is beautiful.

When Malcolm presented this in my lab, the audience was cheering at the end, and one person shouted (non-ironically) "You did it!"
🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling!
📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...
September 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Our latest on the cognitive science of LLMs! To be presented @CogSci‬2025 🎉

LLMs are increasingly involved in human collaborations. How do LLMs assign responsibility and reward to collaborators? Is it similar to how humans do it? 🤖🧑

📃 gershmanlab.com/pubs/XiangBi... (1/4)
July 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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🎈 Out now: 🎈

"The capacity limits of moving objects in the imagination"

(by Balaban & me)

of interest to people thinking about the imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, capacity limits, and more

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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@gershbrain.bsky.social, @yangxiang.bsky.social, and I have a new project out in preprint form!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Here are the main takeaways: (1/6)
OSF
osf.io
March 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Really excited about this project, and thanks so much to my wonderful collaborators @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social for making this happen! Some main takeaways in thread 🧵 (1/5)
It was such a pleasure to work on this project with Yang and Sam! 🙏

The paper develops a signaling theory of self-handicapping, tests it in two novel experiments, and shows how it explains some earlier findings, too.
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 AM