Sam Gershman

@gershbrain

Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University

Cambridge, MA gershmanlab.com/index.html Joined July 2016

58 Following 17K Followers 2.7K Posts

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain Nov 5, 2024

I love this project, which feels like it opens many doors.

Tomer Ullman @TomerUllman Nov 5, 2024

Looking for a distraction (for some reason)?

May I interest you in this cool new paper on "Blending simulation and abstraction for physical reasoning"?

(by Sosa, Gershman, and me)

paper link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

OSF: osf.io/preprints/psya…

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain Oct 30, 2024

Great opportunity here!!

Jay Hennig @jehosafet Oct 28, 2024

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me on problems related to meta-learning and probabilistic representation learning in the brain.

Perks:
i) the amazing research community at @bcm_neurosci and @RiceNeuro.
ii) Houston food is DELICIOUS (and cheap)

jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoctor…
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain Oct 19, 2024

@yyyxiang has a new paper with me and @kevin_dorst showing that you don't find a gambler's fallacy in probability judgments (by you do in point predictions):
osf.io/preprints/psya…
This dissociation suggests that the gambler's fallacy doesn't arise from probabilistic reasoning.

Sam Gershman @gershbrain Oct 19, 2024

I think my point here has been misunderstood by most commentators. Obviously I agree that ephys is a more direct measure of spiking activity. Let me try to clarify...

Sam Gershman @gershbrain Oct 17, 2024

Papers that report neuronal recordings sometimes say that they provide "direct" evidence for neural encoding of something, in contrast to "indirect" methods such as non-invasive brain imaging. I don't really understand this. What makes one "direct" and the other "indirect"?
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain Oct 17, 2024

Papers that report neuronal recordings sometimes say that they provide "direct" evidence for neural encoding of something, in contrast to "indirect" methods such as non-invasive brain imaging. I don't really understand this. What makes one "direct" and the other "indirect"?