Alicia Chen

I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! My lab works at the intersection of information theory, cognition, language, and AI. Wanna hear more? I asked notebookLM to generate a podcast just for you (but pls take it with a big grain of salt...) youtu.be/9L04S4jvspI

So excited this paper is finally out! 🎉 A wonderful collaborative effort (started in my 1st year of grad school) with @aniladmello @kineticjohnson and @gabrieli_john to study how kids' brains respond to stories about their interests: doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

Still two weeks left to apply to the graduate program here @BerkeleyPsych. My lab (ccs-ucb.github.io) is recruiting through the Cognition area this cycle. More information here: psychology.berkeley.edu/students/gradu…

I’m excited to share that I will join @UWPsych as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2025. 🎇🥳 I feel incredibly fortunate to join such a wonderful department and to have the opportunity to start my own lab!  (1/2)

New work in PNAS Nexus with @mlandauwells and @rebecca_saxe We ask: if two groups hold opposing beliefs, when does debunking by an authority lead to belief convergence and when does polarization persist? Paper: tinyurl.com/mr2e4kvx MIT News: tinyurl.com/3bud9z4f 🧵1/N

I'm recruiting PhD students this year with interest in machine learning, embodied AI, or AI for science! If you are interested in constructing fundamental tools to improve Generative AI and exploring how these tools can be used for intelligent embodied agents and science, consider applying to join our lab at Harvard! Continue reading for details!

@anjie_cao omg i'm so excited to listen!!

@jehosafet Woohoo!! Congrats!!

ahhh it's happening...! first day :)

[Please retweet!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary! Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/psya…

New paper in @BiologicalPsyc1 CNN w/ Amrita & @Franklab_LNCC People can flexibly switch btw resolving policy & epistemic uncertainty (uncertainty about what to do vs about environment) to adaptively learn who can be trusted. But those with anxiety... authors.elsevier.com/a/1jrRu8jVtv5U…

Just published "From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to Dan Everett" edited by Edward Gibson & Moshe Poliak #openaccess #eotms langsci-press.org/catalog/book/4…

@LanguageMIT and I are so pleased about this: mitpress.mit.edu/cognitive-scie… Thanks to @HarvardLibrary @mitlibraries @mitpress for making this happen!

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Young-eun Lee (MIT) The development of social norm enforcement: How do children deliver, evaluate, and learn from punishment? Friday, Sep 20 15:00 UTC+2 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/list…

@hoppermori Gn

GN NikNak xD

Preprint alert! After 4 years, I’m super excited to share work with @TheCharleyWu @gershbrain @cpilab on the rise and fall of technological development in virtual communities in #OneHourOneLife #ohol 🧵👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Have you faced unusual adversity, or do you come from a non-traditional academic background? The Student-run BCS Application Assistance Program offers free advice on grad school applications in one-on-one and group settings. Sign up by November 20: mitbcsaap.notion.site/eebb59ad1af74a…

@jmankewitz Congrats!!

🎉🎉 We won the best student poster prize 🎉🎉 thanks to the #AMLaP organizers for a fantastic conference. I had a blast!!

@hoppermori GM

Hahaha this is so funny

🚨New preprint!🚨Excited to share my 1st PhD project with @BonanZhao @cocosci_lab @natvelali Teaching is a powerful way to pass on "tools for thought" to solve new problems. How well do existing teaching models of teaching capture this process? Link: osf.io/preprints/psya…

1/ Excited to share a new preprint with @anjie_cao (co-first), @rebecca_saxe and @mcxfrank: "A stimulus-computable rational model of habituation in infants and adults" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…