Yichen Li
@yichenli.bsky.social
PhD student @Harvard Psychology: computational cognitive science
Reposted by Yichen Li
Officially out in the current issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Officially out in the current issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Reposted by Yichen Li
Excited to have this out! This was a fun project that started with YingQiao and I discussing whether VLMs can do mental simulation of physics like people do, and it culminated in a new method where we prompted image generation models to simulate a series of images frame-by-frame.
new pre-print,
"Chain of Time: In-Context Physical Simulation with Image Generation Models"
(by Wang, Bigelow, Li, and me)
arxiv.org/abs/2511.00110
"Chain of Time: In-Context Physical Simulation with Image Generation Models"
(by Wang, Bigelow, Li, and me)
arxiv.org/abs/2511.00110
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Excited to have this out! This was a fun project that started with YingQiao and I discussing whether VLMs can do mental simulation of physics like people do, and it culminated in a new method where we prompted image generation models to simulate a series of images frame-by-frame.
Reposted by Yichen Li
there's a lot of interest in making AI more "human like" --
but what about the flip side? when real humans seem like robots/puppets/NPCs?
nnnnnewwww pre-print:
"The Development Of Sensitivity To Automatic Behavior"
(by Bass, Bonawitz, & me)
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
but what about the flip side? when real humans seem like robots/puppets/NPCs?
nnnnnewwww pre-print:
"The Development Of Sensitivity To Automatic Behavior"
(by Bass, Bonawitz, & me)
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
there's a lot of interest in making AI more "human like" --
but what about the flip side? when real humans seem like robots/puppets/NPCs?
nnnnnewwww pre-print:
"The Development Of Sensitivity To Automatic Behavior"
(by Bass, Bonawitz, & me)
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
but what about the flip side? when real humans seem like robots/puppets/NPCs?
nnnnnewwww pre-print:
"The Development Of Sensitivity To Automatic Behavior"
(by Bass, Bonawitz, & me)
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reposted by Yichen Li
New preprint!
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
New preprint!
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary