Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
igcastillejo.bsky.social
Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
@igcastillejo.bsky.social
Psych PhD researcher on Unconscious Working Memory at UAM, visiting student at the MIT 🧠
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Applications will be opening soon for BAMB! 2026

The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026

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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
My first PhD work is now out as a pre-print! 💫

Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social )

We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: https://osf.io/9uzhq
January 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv.

Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
A Unified Framework for Psychometrics in Experimental Psychology: The Standardized Generalized Hierarchical Factor Model: https://osf.io/gv6k7
December 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: https://osf.io/9uzhq
January 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM