3 papers from @flowersinria team are presented this week at the @alife2025.bsky.social , leveraging curiosity-driven AI to explore complex behaviors in #Lenia

All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.

Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!

We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.

It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.

Spread the words!

"the computational metaphor" in cognitive science is not a metaphor. computational processes are attributed to the mind/brain in the most dead-literal sense. one can disagree with it but (1) it's not as simple as discarding a metaphor and (2) boy is there a lot of data that has to be explained!

Paper: escholarship.org/uc/item/86c4...

At #CogSci2025 and curious about resource-rational models of social cognition? Come to Nob Hill A at 11:14 tomorrow to hear me talk about work with @tadegquillien.bsky.social where we use the information bottleneck to study stereotype use and the outgroup homogeneity bias!

Just out in Cognitive Psychology
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later

Our new paper with Max Taylor-Davies introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind.

The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵

Very happy that our paper received both the EvoApps best paper and the EvoStar best student paper! Congrats team!!

Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536