Ke "Kay" Fang
@kefang.bsky.social
PhD student Stanford Psych w/ @rdhawkins.bsky.social | Prev NYU MA 24'
🧐How do distributed individual minds support emergent collective-level behaviors and patterns?
https://kefangpsych.github.io/
🧐How do distributed individual minds support emergent collective-level behaviors and patterns?
https://kefangpsych.github.io/
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How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
COSMOS🧑🚀 + TOKYO⛩️🏯 = ✨THE BEST WORKSHOP EVER!!!✨
Thanks @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for organizing everything 💙
Thanks @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for organizing everything 💙
Mentorship sessions are one of my favorite parts of #COSMOS2025 Discussing science and academic careers, while exploring what Tokyo has to offer! With @liang-lee.bsky.social @mohsen-raoufi.bsky.social @wasita.bsky.social @shannonyasuda.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @davidschultner.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
COSMOS🧑🚀 + TOKYO⛩️🏯 = ✨THE BEST WORKSHOP EVER!!!✨
Thanks @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for organizing everything 💙
Thanks @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for organizing everything 💙
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🚨New paper out w/ @gershbrain.bsky.social & @fierycushman.bsky.social from my time @Harvard!
Humans are capable of sophisticated theory of mind, but when do we use it?
We formalize & document a new cognitive shortcut: belief neglect — inferring others' preferences, as if their beliefs are correct🧵
Humans are capable of sophisticated theory of mind, but when do we use it?
We formalize & document a new cognitive shortcut: belief neglect — inferring others' preferences, as if their beliefs are correct🧵
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
🚨New paper out w/ @gershbrain.bsky.social & @fierycushman.bsky.social from my time @Harvard!
Humans are capable of sophisticated theory of mind, but when do we use it?
We formalize & document a new cognitive shortcut: belief neglect — inferring others' preferences, as if their beliefs are correct🧵
Humans are capable of sophisticated theory of mind, but when do we use it?
We formalize & document a new cognitive shortcut: belief neglect — inferring others' preferences, as if their beliefs are correct🧵
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
*Sharing for our department’s trainees*
🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology?
✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered!
📝 Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025
🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology?
✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered!
📝 Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
*Sharing for our department’s trainees*
🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology?
✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered!
📝 Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025
🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology?
✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered!
📝 Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025
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So pleased and proud to share this work.
I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour.
Why so much struggle? See thread.
1/17
I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour.
Why so much struggle? See thread.
1/17
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social
Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire.
Our computational cognitive model explains why!
Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7
News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu
🧵
with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social
Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire.
Our computational cognitive model explains why!
Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7
News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu
🧵
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
tinyurl.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
So pleased and proud to share this work.
I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour.
Why so much struggle? See thread.
1/17
I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour.
Why so much struggle? See thread.
1/17
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looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨
August 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
Excited to be sharing my latest work with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social at #CogSci2025!
Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience?
📃 cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2...
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Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience?
📃 cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Excited to be sharing my latest work with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social at #CogSci2025!
Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience?
📃 cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2...
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Learning usually occurs when we encounter new data. But we also have the capacity to reflect on our past experiences. What can we learn from simulating past experience?
📃 cicl.stanford.edu/papers/yang2...
1/
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Proud of the work from hmc-lab.com & collaborators @ #CogSci2025 this year, but sad I cant be there myself
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Proud of the work from hmc-lab.com & collaborators @ #CogSci2025 this year, but sad I cant be there myself
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
@hanqizhou.bsky.social @davidnagy.bsky.social @alexthewitty.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @brendenlake.bsky.social @kefang.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
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Excited to share that our paper is now out in Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social (dlvr.it/TM9zJ8).
Our perception isn't a perfect mirror of the world. It's often biased by our expectations and beliefs. How do these biases unfold over time, and what shapes their trajectory? A summary thread. (1/13)
Our perception isn't a perfect mirror of the world. It's often biased by our expectations and beliefs. How do these biases unfold over time, and what shapes their trajectory? A summary thread. (1/13)
Attractor dynamics of working memory explain a concurrent evolution of stimulus-specific and decision-consistent biases in visual estimation
People exhibit biases when perceiving features of the world, shaped by both external
stimuli and prior decisions. By tracking behavioral, neural, and mechanistic markers
of stimulus- and decision-rela...
dlvr.it
July 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Excited to share that our paper is now out in Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social (dlvr.it/TM9zJ8).
Our perception isn't a perfect mirror of the world. It's often biased by our expectations and beliefs. How do these biases unfold over time, and what shapes their trajectory? A summary thread. (1/13)
Our perception isn't a perfect mirror of the world. It's often biased by our expectations and beliefs. How do these biases unfold over time, and what shapes their trajectory? A summary thread. (1/13)
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
Excited to share our new work at #CogSci2025!
We explore how people plan deceptive actions, and how detectives try to see through the ruse and infer what really happened based on the traces left behind. 🕵️♀️
Paper: osf.io/preprints/osf/vqgz5_v1
Code: github.com/cicl-stanford/recursive_deception
1/
We explore how people plan deceptive actions, and how detectives try to see through the ruse and infer what really happened based on the traces left behind. 🕵️♀️
Paper: osf.io/preprints/osf/vqgz5_v1
Code: github.com/cicl-stanford/recursive_deception
1/
July 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Excited to share our new work at #CogSci2025!
We explore how people plan deceptive actions, and how detectives try to see through the ruse and infer what really happened based on the traces left behind. 🕵️♀️
Paper: osf.io/preprints/osf/vqgz5_v1
Code: github.com/cicl-stanford/recursive_deception
1/
We explore how people plan deceptive actions, and how detectives try to see through the ruse and infer what really happened based on the traces left behind. 🕵️♀️
Paper: osf.io/preprints/osf/vqgz5_v1
Code: github.com/cicl-stanford/recursive_deception
1/
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Looking forward to #cogsci2025 next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Looking forward to #cogsci2025 next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
🎤 "Your #CogSci presentation was quite good this year."
How flattered or offended will you be? The answer may depend on whether you speak British or American English 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Our new #CogSci2025 paper reveals systematic differences in how different cultures interpret the same words.
How flattered or offended will you be? The answer may depend on whether you speak British or American English 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Our new #CogSci2025 paper reveals systematic differences in how different cultures interpret the same words.
July 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
🎤 "Your #CogSci presentation was quite good this year."
How flattered or offended will you be? The answer may depend on whether you speak British or American English 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Our new #CogSci2025 paper reveals systematic differences in how different cultures interpret the same words.
How flattered or offended will you be? The answer may depend on whether you speak British or American English 🇺🇸🇬🇧. Our new #CogSci2025 paper reveals systematic differences in how different cultures interpret the same words.
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
🚨New paper! We know models learn distinct in-context learning strategies, but *why*? Why generalize instead of memorize to lower loss? And why is generalization transient?
Our work explains this & *predicts Transformer behavior throughout training* without its weights! 🧵
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Our work explains this & *predicts Transformer behavior throughout training* without its weights! 🧵
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June 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🚨New paper! We know models learn distinct in-context learning strategies, but *why*? Why generalize instead of memorize to lower loss? And why is generalization transient?
Our work explains this & *predicts Transformer behavior throughout training* without its weights! 🧵
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Our work explains this & *predicts Transformer behavior throughout training* without its weights! 🧵
1/
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
So excited to see this paper with @ckaicher.bsky.social and @cantlonlab.bsky.social finally out!
Intersection of spatial and numerical cognition in the developing brain
Abstract. Early mathematical development is thought to depend on visuospatial processing, yet neural evidence for this relationship in young children has b
academic.oup.com
June 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So excited to see this paper with @ckaicher.bsky.social and @cantlonlab.bsky.social finally out!
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆
There are two open positions:
1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition.
2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety.
sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
There are two open positions:
1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition.
2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety.
sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
Sydney Levine - Open Positions
Summer Research Position
I am seeking a part-time or full-time researcher for the summer (starting asap) to bring a project to completion. The project asks the question: do people around the world u...
sites.google.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆
There are two open positions:
1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition.
2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety.
sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
There are two open positions:
1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition.
2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety.
sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
I’m pleased to share our new review article, “Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory”, written with Haopei Yang (HY), Alice Xue, and Anthony Wagner, now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science. 🚀🧠 A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory - Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner, 2025
The ability to learn from and remember experiences (episodic memory) depends on multiple neurocognitive systems. In this article, we highlight recent advances i...
doi.org
June 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m pleased to share our new review article, “Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory”, written with Haopei Yang (HY), Alice Xue, and Anthony Wagner, now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science. 🚀🧠 A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
May 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
Essential tools for writing better code: Version control - Chapter 2, Part 1 of Better Code, Better Science
Essential tools for writing better code: Version control
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 2, Part 1
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Essential tools for writing better code: Version control - Chapter 2, Part 1 of Better Code, Better Science
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
I've decided to start my own Substack, called Neural Strategies: russpoldrack.substack.com/p/introducin... - I will soon start releasing content from a new open-source book I'm developing, tentatively titled "Better Code, Better Science". Subscribe to receive each new section as soon as I post it!
Introducing the Neural Strategies Substack
Allow me to (re)introduce myself
russpoldrack.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I've decided to start my own Substack, called Neural Strategies: russpoldrack.substack.com/p/introducin... - I will soon start releasing content from a new open-source book I'm developing, tentatively titled "Better Code, Better Science". Subscribe to receive each new section as soon as I post it!
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
Reserve your free tickets to SFI's upcoming Community Lecture! lensic.org/events/blais...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ presents 'Computing, Life, and Intelligence' at the Lensic on 🗓️ May 20, 7:30pm MT in-person or online.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ presents 'Computing, Life, and Intelligence' at the Lensic on 🗓️ May 20, 7:30pm MT in-person or online.
May 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reserve your free tickets to SFI's upcoming Community Lecture! lensic.org/events/blais...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ presents 'Computing, Life, and Intelligence' at the Lensic on 🗓️ May 20, 7:30pm MT in-person or online.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ presents 'Computing, Life, and Intelligence' at the Lensic on 🗓️ May 20, 7:30pm MT in-person or online.
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
🚨 New @psychinquiry Issue 36:1 just dropped!
Target article: Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @dalbarra.bsky.social.
Why don’t beliefs always drive actions? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...
Target article: Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @dalbarra.bsky.social.
Why don’t beliefs always drive actions? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...
May 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨 New @psychinquiry Issue 36:1 just dropped!
Target article: Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @dalbarra.bsky.social.
Why don’t beliefs always drive actions? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...
Target article: Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @dalbarra.bsky.social.
Why don’t beliefs always drive actions? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...
Reposted by Ke "Kay" Fang
I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation.
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
April 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation.
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620
See more details below:
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Now out in JPSP ‼️
"Inference from social evaluation" with Zach Davis, Kelsey Allen, @maxkw.bsky.social, and @julianje.bsky.social
📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Inference from social evaluation" with Zach Davis, Kelsey Allen, @maxkw.bsky.social, and @julianje.bsky.social
📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Now out in JPSP ‼️
"Inference from social evaluation" with Zach Davis, Kelsey Allen, @maxkw.bsky.social, and @julianje.bsky.social
📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Inference from social evaluation" with Zach Davis, Kelsey Allen, @maxkw.bsky.social, and @julianje.bsky.social
📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...