@rhezab.bsky.social will present poster B-20 “How does social learning affect trapped learners” at Poster Session 3 on Saturday at 1:00 PM.

@susanbenear.bsky.social will present poster B-12 “The effects of real-world novelty exposure on episodic memory specificity across development” at Poster Session 2 on Friday at 10:30 AM.

Two lab members will be presenting posters at @cogscisociety.bsky.social in San Fran this week! Come say hi!! See thread for details.

At @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social last week, current and former members of our lab presented their research - here are a few highlights from @alanajaskir.bsky.social, @noraharhen.bsky.social and @susanbenear.bsky.social! Posters from @licezhang.bsky.social and Noam Goldway not pictured.

Great talk today by our PI @catehartley.bsky.social and Michael Littman for Session 1 ("Developmental mechanisms and exploration") at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social on the ingredients needed for AGI, supported by both cognitive and computational evidence. See photo for conclusion! 🧠🤖

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...

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!

I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026!
I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory!
RT appreciated!
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Two Hartley Lab undergraduate research assistants gave great talks today at the NYU Undergraduate Research Conference on research they've conducted in the lab!! 👏 Congratulations to Yvette Ma and Sophia Nielsen!

Saturday 5/3, 8:30-10:00 AM, Auditorium 2, our PI @catehartley.bsky.social will speak along with @apmackey.bsky.social as part of the duo address "Development of cognition, learning, and brain plasticity"! tinyurl.com/srcdhartley

Friday 5/2, 1:20-2:50 PM, Room 208A, as part of the symposium "From Stress to Strategy: How Childhood Adversity Shapes Learning and Exploration", postdoc @noraharhen.bsky.social will present "Early life environments shape reinforcement learning strategies across development"! tinyurl.com/srcdharhen

⭐️Two talks from our lab will be taking place at the SRCD conference in Minneapolis this week on Friday 5/2 and Saturday 5/3!⭐️ @srcdorg.bsky.social See thread for details!

This kind of talk is why I go to conferences. How mine blowing and inspiring. Cate Hartley is my new academic aspirational goal @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social #sans2025

Great talk today by our PI @catehartley.bsky.social (a newly minted Full Professor!! 🎉) in our very own NYU psychology department on "Causes and consequences of exploration across development" 📍📱🗺️🚶

New preprint 📝 - another fun collaboration with @arikahn.bsky.social, @licezhang.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social

We ask: Why do children and adults often derive different representations of their environments from the same experiences? 🧠👶🔎

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨New pre-print out from our lab!!🚨 "Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference" by @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono, @catehartley.bsky.social, and
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social. Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

psyarxiv.com/y3dzn preprint from the time i spent at @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social 💜 - we were puzzled by past findings suggesting that children learn about the structure of the world, but don't use this knowledge to flexibly guide their decision-making as much as adults do.