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Ari Kahn

@arikahn.bsky.social

Postdoc at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Planning in complex environments, RL and network science. https://www.aekahn.com

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Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE) Duties & Responsibilities:Publishing peer-reviewed scholarly works.Maintaining an active research program.Obtaining extramural funding.Teaching un...

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply!

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

04.12.2025 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Children leverage predictive representations for flexible, value-guided choice By harnessing a mental model of how the world works, learners can make flexible choices in changing environments. However, while children and adolesceโ€ฆ

New paper out in cognition with @arikahn.bsky.social, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social, Cate Hartley, and @katenuss.bsky.social !!

We show that children ๐Ÿ‘ถ use predictive representations (e.g. SR) to guide their choices, providing an account of how they can make flexible choices in a changing world

15.10.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Excited to see everyone at #RLDM2025!

Iโ€™ll be presenting a poster โ€œTrial-by-trial landing of successor representations in human behaviorโ€ on Friday (Poster session 3, #52), work with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and @danisbassett.bsky.social

11.06.2025 10:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations - Nature Human Behaviour Trach and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations.

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the great @jetrach.bsky.social!

"Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

02.06.2025 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I am hiring for RA, PhD, and postdoc positions. Come work with me on how we use simplified models of the world to plan in complex environments!

University of Arizona is located in Tucson with incredible access to the outdoors.

If you are interested, reach out to me! (2/2)

05.06.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I'm thrilled to announce that I will start as an Assistant Professor in Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona in Jan 2026! My lab will investigate human planning and decision making through a combination of computational models, behavior, and fMRI (1/2)

05.06.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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New preprint ๐Ÿ“ - 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? ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ‘ถ๐Ÿ”Ž

osf.io/preprints/ps...

06.03.2025 12:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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