Maxwell X Chen

Very glad to be a part of this exciting project!

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨
w/ @ranimo.bsky.social 📝 osf.io/preprints/psya…

From partisan news to algorithmically curated content, we constantly receive biased misinformation. With biased input, can our beliefs be accurate?

Turns out, biased misinformation distorts our beliefs! 👇🧵 1/13

Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...

Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7