Alison Preston
@prestonlab.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist @UTAustin I study how children, adolescents, and adults learn and reason about the world preston.clm.utexas.edu
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It was great fun working with @alexanderhuth.bsky.social and @mujianing.bsky.social on these theoretical ideas. We are excited for everyone to check out the preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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alexanderhuth.bsky.social
New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.
biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Efficient uniform sampling explains non-uniform memory of narrative stories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667952v1