Wei Ji Ma
@weijima.bsky.social
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Computational cognitive scientist at NYU. Founder of Growing up in Science.
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In our lab, we use a lot of planning tasks that are deterministic for simplicity. But stochasticity is an important aspect of real-world planning. Jordan Lei measured how the amount of stochasticity in the environment affects how much/deeply people plan: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Much better description than what I gave
@weijima.bsky.social, @lacerbi.bsky.social, Trevor, and I have a new preprint on Bayesian models of multisensory perception!

We systematically inspect the underexplored degrees of freedom in Bayesian models, squeezing out their best capability in capturing human behavior.

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@weijima.bsky.social, @lacerbi.bsky.social, Trevor, and I have a new preprint on Bayesian models of multisensory perception!

We systematically inspect the underexplored degrees of freedom in Bayesian models, squeezing out their best capability in capturing human behavior.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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This is an unusual one: the project started in 2009, with Trevor Holland collecting data in an auditory-visual integration paradigm with many conditions within subjects. But modeling it remained challenging over the years until Luigi Acerbi and Shuze Liu took it on. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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I guess there has to be a moment to resume some social media activity.

Here's a preprint from my PhD student, now postdoc Pei Yuan Zhang. A normative model (Bellman equations) works remarkably well to account for a range of qualitative effects related to procrastination. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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