Weiji Ma

Weiji Ma

@weijima.bsky.social

Computational cognitive scientist at NYU. Founder of Growing up in Science.

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Weiji Ma
@weijima.bsky.social

Anybody can make a science film now! Turn a dense technical paper into a video accessible to a broad audience. I am quite impressed. The paper might be my last on multisensory perception. This project was started in 2008 and took 18 years to get published. Read more: acerbilab.org/one-cause-or...

acerbilab.orgOne cause or two?How does your brain know that a sight and a sound belong together? A short film about causal inference in perception, and about the shapes of its two ingredients: the blur of our senses, and our expec...
Luigi Acerbi@lacerbi.bsky.social

1/ A short film about how your brain solves the "one thing or two?" problem, based on our recent paper with Shuze Liu, Trevor Holland and @weijima.bsky.social in PLoS Comp Biol.

Weiji Ma
@weijima.bsky.social

This was one of the cleanest, most straightforward projects I've ever done, from the hypothesis to the design to the conclusion. Of course still a lot of models, and it was made to look easy just because @jordanlei.bsky.social was so capable!

Jordan Lei@jordanlei.bsky.social

Our paper is out in Nature Communications! In our messy, noisy world, do you find planning difficult/less worthwhile? It's not just you. As we increased the stochasticity in a planning environment, we found that people spent less effort planning: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogsci #planning

nature.comEnvironmental stochasticity reduces human planning effort - Nature CommunicationsThe real world is stochastic, making it difficult to know when planning is worthwhile. Here the authors show that as stochasticity increases, people spend less effort planning and adopt simpler, less ...
Weiji Ma
@weijima.bsky.social

Don't you sometimes wish you had an undo button on your important decisions? A new paper from the lab starts examining what drives undo decisions in a multi-step planning task. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comDecision reversals in sequential decision-making - Communications PsychologyPeople often make sequences of decisions to reach a goal. In such situations, when decisions can be undone, people act faster and undo to correct errors. Undoing is driven by both retrospective and pr...
Weiji Ma
@weijima.bsky.social

Thinking of applying to US-based Ph.D. programs in neuroscience, psychology, or cognitive science? We’ve got your back! NYU’s Application Support Group is a student-led, free mentorship program offering 1-on-1 support and guidance. Apply now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.comNYU Application Support Group Matching FormDear Prospective Neuroscience & Psychology PhD Students, We are a group of current NYU Neuroscience & Psychology PhD students who would like to help you with your PhD applications. We want to support...
Weiji Ma
@weijima.bsky.social

Much better description than what I gave

Liu, Shuze@liushuze.bsky.social

@weijima.bsky.social, @lacerbi.bsky.social, Trevor, and I have a new preprint on Bayesian models of multisensory perception! We systematically inspect the underexplored degrees of freedom in Bayesian models, squeezing out their best capability in capturing human behavior. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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