Shreya Rajagopal
shreya-rajagopal.bsky.social
Shreya Rajagopal
@shreya-rajagopal.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscience Ph.D., University of Michigan
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience| Computational Psychiatry
Love all things art, writing for fun, and cooking comically elaborate meals
Reposted by Shreya Rajagopal
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Finding this a year too late, but an absolutely fantastic visual intro to what's under the hood in transformers by @3blue1brown.com!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZo...
Transformers (how LLMs work) explained visually | DL5
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
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June 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Excited to share my first-author paper with Dr. Thad Polk in @commsbio.nature.com introducing a neurally constrained, memory engram-based mechanistic model of the fear circuit to explain context-dependent relapse of extinguished fear(ConFER), and present clinically relevant hypotheses! #compneuro
A neurally constrained computational model of context-dependent fear extinction recall and relapse - Communications Biology
A neurally-constrained, computational model of cued fear conditioning proposes potential mechanisms underlying the context-dependent relapse of fear following fear extinction, and suggests that counte...
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May 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Recently defended my dissertation titled 'A Neurally Constrained Computational Model of Context-Dependent Fear Extinction and Relapse' at @umich.edu with Dr. Thad Polk as chair, and an incredible committee comprising of @natalie-t.bsky.social, Dr. Richard Lewis and Dr. Elizabeth Duval!
May 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM