Adam Sanborn

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Prof. Adam Sanborn giving a talk on Bayesian Brain without Probabilities at Aalto

On Friday, @ainiputkonen.bsky.social defended her dissertation on modeling decision-making in naturalistic settings with Prof. Adam Sanborn as the opponent. It has been a joy to watch her grow and emerge as a rigorous and original researcher. Congrats Aini!

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With Nick Chater, @mmrobinson93.bsky.social‬, Wenjia Joyce Zhao, Jake Spicer, and C. Stella Qian.
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Research Fellow (110542-0525) at University of Warwick Recruiting now: Research Fellow (110542-0525) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

We've received funding from the ESRC to investigate if sampling models can explain perceptual and cognitive tasks in the same way.

One of the postdoc positions is advertised: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/D...


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OECS thematic collections.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social!

Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg

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Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm.

If we've missed any, please let us know!

sampling.warwick.ac....

Delay preference in intertemporal choice: Sooner or later OR faster or slower? Intertemporal choices are conventionally conceived as decisions about whether to be better off sooner or later. As a reflection of this, most experime…

A new approach to intertemporal choice.

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Welcome back to Dr. Jake Spicer, who returns to Warwick Psychology to begin his ESRC New Investigator project, "Investigating Sampling Approaches to Decision Making"

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New paper with Tong Liu and Arndt Broeder, just accepted in Cognition. We test novel qualitative predictions from sampling-based models of probability estimation in an event ranking task. Results provide evidence for the idea that mental sampling underlies probability judgements.

Here's a network lesson on #creativity @yoedkenett.bsky.social and I came up: How to be more creative? Get noisy! Try lots of things. It's the old exploration-exploitation trade-off, and good practice when you don't know what to do. DM for a copy of the paper. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise - Joakim Sundh, Philip Millroth, August Collsiöö, Peter Juslin, 2025 In psychological research, noise is often considered a nuisance that obscures rather than contributes information. This simplification overlooks that noise can ...

Very pleased that the special section I've edited with some colleagues (none of them on Bluesky, unfortunately) on Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise is now published in PPS! Links to all of the articles in the section below.

doi.org/10.1177/1745...

Thanks to the tremendous team of Jian-Qiao Zhu, Jake Spicer, @pleonv.bsky.social, @lcastillo.bsky.social, Johanna Falbén, @yunxiao-li.bsky.social, @aidan-sj-tee.bsky.social, and Nick Chater (4/4)

This noise could be due to the brain approximating probabilistic inference with local sampling.

If so, it could be a feature rather than a bug, as it allows exploration of alternative interpretations of the world. (3/4)

Diagram of different causes of noise in behaviour

It reviews the surprising structure of variability in human behaviour, discussing how much of it could be noise in cognitive computations. (2/4)

"Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?" is now available in Perspectives on Psychological Science
doi.org/10.1177/1745... (1/4)

🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review!

How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning.

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🚨 A new preprint is out!

How does utility influence mental simulations of risky events? 🤔🎲

We tested this across 4 experiments & found that most people simulate probabilities accurately, but biases emerge in key conditions!

If you want to learn more, keep reading!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

New Preprint Out! 🚀🚀
Can people generate a random sequence if given enough time?

Keep reading if
- You make cognitive models with randomness in them
- You like to explore the world, be creative, choose well
- You want protection from clever agents exploiting patterns in your behavior.
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A short intro to MCMC in Cognitive Science in the excellent OECS

In our new preprint, my co-authors and I explore how people’s probability judgments sometimes don’t add up the way they should, and how these violations can help us compare different models of how people make these judgments!

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