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MichaelZhu
@mikezhu.bsky.social
@uchicago Interested in how humans individually and collectively solve social complexity
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New paper with @catehartley.bsky.social

How does the reward structure of the environment influence the specificity with which children, adolescents, and adults learn and remember information?

See preprint 🧵 and paper for our efforts to answer to this!

#PsychSciSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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And it's worth "plumbing" (pun intended) the depth of our minds! #sans2025 @kevinochsner.bsky.social
“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science:
How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇
April 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age.

Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...

Please share!
Research Specialist 2025 — Crockett Lab
www.crockettlab.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM