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New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNAS
Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉

tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM