Bob Wilson

Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems held at Georgia Tech from Oct. 13–15, 2025. Learn more: ai.gatech.edu/event/twelft...

Hanbo and Huadong's superb work on Think Aloud for risky decision making. Think Aloud data from JUST ONE TRIAL allows us to predict choices on other trials about 5% above chance.

Can Think-Aloud be really useful in understanding human minds? Building on our previous work, we formally propose reopening this old debate, with one of the largest Think-Aloud datasets, "RiskyThought44K," and LLM analysis, showing Think-Aloud can complement to comp cogsci.

This is my favorite thing about analytic solutions for models - perfect correspondence between theory and simulation!

Great turnout for the CoCo #CCN2025 watch party at Georgia Tech. Thanks to @neuranna.bsky.social for leading the charge!

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I also love that you have the guy you won the bidding war against piping up in the comments. Thanks for sharing - this totally made my day!

Not quite. Some students will have only taken one coding class before mine so a bit rough to have them switch languages!

What a great story! I adapted the code for the gif from a different blog post maybe 10 years ago - that I can't find for the life of me now. That uses bitshift to reveal the images, but leads the 1 bit images appearing superimposed. I also stopped the loop too early and missed you off - sorry!

From your blogs it looks like there's even more history to it than I realized!

It's driven by the students - their intro classes are all in Python.

One of the saddest things about switching my classes from Matlab to Python is that I no longer get to teach about the Matlab ghost. Rest in peace little buddy ... along with your dogs, your random numbers and all of your creepy hidden friends

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Excited for our @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social workshop at the intersection of #NeuroAI and Aging. Tomorrow from 9 AM -1 PM in LTEE 3 in Hamilton Building, hope to see you there!

Yay for RLDM! If you signed up to be a mentor in the mentoring program, be on the lookout for an email from me with your mentee assignments.

Proud to play a small role in this null result - from the excellent and thorough @carolinephelps.bsky.social. No effect of chronic or acute pain on working memory in the Sternberg task.

Is the pain of null data taking up slots in your working memory? Or shifting you over optimum arousal on the Yerkes Dodson curve?

Not for me! I've externalized it to this lovely preprint!

Plus, read on for why it might not be the pain that causes deficits in your working memory... 🧵

Are you planning to attend @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 and interested in human and artificial intelligence across the adult lifespan? Come check out our Representational Alignment and Aging Workshop!👇
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I am crying while grading my students' final essays for a course that taught them how to critically evaluate psychological science.

They understood the assignment. 🧵

I love this thread so much! What a fantastic final assignment to have folks critically reflect on being a participant in an experiment. And what a reminder to us all - especially those of us on the computational side - that people aren't machines! Thank you!

AI startup idea 1: an AI that delivers oral exams
AI startup idea 2: an AI that cheats on oral exams
Update 1 to outwit 2
Update 2 to outwit 1

Attending CCN in Amsterdam this August? Come and join our workshop! Details/sign-up info below.

This looks so cool! Why are all the best conferences in Europe this year?!

After a gentle push from @arikahn.bsky.social, I finally got my old cognitive modeling class back online. Very much an intro course, covers DDM, Expected Value Theory, and RL, stopping at simple model fitting and parameter recovery.

Apologies for the Matlab.

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please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

With @debyee.bsky.social, @carolinephelps.bsky.social, Nicholas Blauch, Olivia Calvin, Kelly Chang and free food!

If you're in Atlanta on Friday, you could do worse than come join us for our first annual Postdoc Day hosted by the Center of Excellence for Computational Cognition.

Hear from five up and coming researchers before they get too famous to turn us down!
coco.psych.gatech.edu/coco-postdoc...

Atlanta friends, I want to extend a special invitation to have you join us for a really unique event we're hosting on May 7 called "Wired Lives: Personal Stories of Brain Implants": neuro.gatech.edu/wired-lives-...

Perhaps that’s too much to read into what was, in the end, just a really long zoom call, but it gives me hope.

All of these people, all of this effort, all to try to answer some of the biggest questions in science and beat back some of diseases we most fear. It reminds me that humans are capable of such good.

Even the participants in the studies – donating their time to have their behavior tracked or their blood drawn or their brains scanned or stimulated.