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Basile Garcia
@bsgarcia.bsky.social
Cognitive Science postdoc. University of Geneva. Ex-HRL team (DEC, ENS, Paris)
human behavior/reinforcement learning/decision-making/computational modeling
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Very happy to share our latest work on metacognition with M. Rouault, A. McWilliams, F. Chartier, @kndiaye.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social where we identify contributors to self-performance estimates across memory and perception domains 👇
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October 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Thought experiments such as the Blockhead and Super-Super Spartans are often taken as “definitive” arguments against behavior-based inference of cognitive processes.
In our review -with @thecharleywu.bsky.social- we argue they may not be as definitive as originally thought.
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🎉 Excited to present a poster at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam!
📍 Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm

We show that experiential value neglect (Garcia et al., 2023) is robust to changes in how options and outcomes are represented. Also, people show reduced sensitivity to losses, especially in comparative decision-making.
August 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🔥Our paper PhyloLM got accepted at ICLR 2025 !🔥
In this work we show how easy it can be to infer relationship between LLMs by constructing trees and to predict their performances and behavior at a very low cost with @stepalminteri.bsky.social and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social ! Here is a brief recap ⬇️
April 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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April 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Below the thread about a thoroughly updated version of our human-machine / moral psychology paper where we show the complex nature of anti-/ pro-AI biases in evaluating and detecting machine vs. artificial judgements. Study lead by @bsgarcia.bsky.social in collaboration with Crystal Qian
How does thinking something is AI-generated influence agreement—and vice versa?🧠
In our latest preprint (@stepalminteri.bsky.social, Crystal Qian), ~230 people judged justifications from GPT-3.5 and humans across moral dilemmas. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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April 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
How does thinking something is AI-generated influence agreement—and vice versa?🧠
In our latest preprint (@stepalminteri.bsky.social, Crystal Qian), ~230 people judged justifications from GPT-3.5 and humans across moral dilemmas. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Our first fMRI in a while where we investigate the neural bases or multi-step Reinforcement Learning and found a clear functional dissociation between the parietal and the peri-hippocampal cortex. More info by Fabien, below
🚨 New preprint on bioRxiv!

We investigated how the brain supports forward planning & structure learning during multi-step decision-making using fMRI 🧠

With A. Salvador, S. Hamroun, @mael-lebreton.bsky.social & @stepalminteri.bsky.social

📄 Preprint: submit.biorxiv.org/submission/p...
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April 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🚨 New preprint on bioRxiv!

We investigated how the brain supports forward planning & structure learning during multi-step decision-making using fMRI 🧠

With A. Salvador, S. Hamroun, @mael-lebreton.bsky.social & @stepalminteri.bsky.social

📄 Preprint: submit.biorxiv.org/submission/p...
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April 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM