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Nora Harhen
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Postdoc at NYU studying learning, memory, and decision making across development

https://noraharhen.github.io/
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fredcallaway.bsky.social
Despite the world being on fire, I can't help but be thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth in Fall '26. I'll be recruiting grad students this upcoming cycle—get in touch if you're interested!
May 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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lauraabusta.bsky.social
I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published
@PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵
Figure 1: Foraging trial diagram. On each trial participants chose to harvest the tree they were at (down arrow key) or travel to a new tree (right arrow key), during the travel they completed an effortful task, after which they arrived at a new patch with a replenished supply of apples. The tree is a green circle and rectangular brown trunk. The apples are red and lined up in a row on the bottom of the screen. There is a warrior avatar with a shield, helmet, and sword who jumps to harvest the apples.
January 26, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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fredcallaway.bsky.social
Happy to belatedly "announce" that our paper on nudging has been published in Psych Review! We understand nudges as changing the "meta-level decision-making problem", influencing people's choices by influencing what they think about it.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
Optimal Nudging for Cognitively Bounded Agents: A Framework for Modeling, Predicting, and Controlling the Effects of Choice Architectures
January 11, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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katenuss.bsky.social
New preprint! Here, we examine how the specificity of learning computations adapts to the reward structure of the environment and influences memory across development.
 
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Read on for more details. 🧵⬇️
osf.io
November 13, 2023 at 4:17 PM
noraharhen.bsky.social
Really excited to share our new paper where we use a reinforcement learning model to demonstrate that rational adaptation to an unpredictable early life environment can produce key characteristics of anhedonia (1/10) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 23, 2023 at 6:56 PM
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dlbarack.bsky.social
New manuscript! Here, we fit 27 different models to behavior in both humans and monkeys to understand what computations drive patch foraging decisions. Comments/questions/criticisms/suggestions definitely welcome!
October 18, 2023 at 2:57 AM
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emilyliquin.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky! I’m recruiting PhD students to help launch the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at U of New Hampshire Psych in Fall 2024!

Check out our lab website at liquinlab.github.io for more info, and feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in applying!

#CogSci #DevPsych #PsychSciSky
ELM Lab @ UNH
liquinlab.github.io
October 16, 2023 at 6:19 PM
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aaronbornstein.bsky.social
New lab paper! Memory precision and age each affect different decision systems. The lab's first foray into cognitive aging, fearlessly lead by
Dr. Sharon Noh. Details in her 🐦🧵 twitter.com/sharon_noh/s... - and out now in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lif...
Scientific Reports - Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lifespan
www.nature.com
October 13, 2023 at 1:23 AM