New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜
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Bella Fascendini
Профиль VivelyPhD student at Princeton🐯 | https://bellafascendini.github.io/
Congrats,Tom!! 🎉@cocoscilab.bsky.social
Princeton UniversityFour faculty members will receive 2026 Graduate Mentoring Awards for their exceptional guidance of graduate students: Edward Baring, Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social), Jerelle Joseph (@jerelleaj.bsky.social) and Jamie Rankin: https://bit.ly/4dmoXQR Congratulations!
Registration deadline tomorrow! Come join our workshop! 😃✨
Bella FascendiniAre you attending @cogdevsoc.bsky.social 2026? Come join us for an afternoon pre-conference workshop on motivation in development! We'll bring together developmental, educational, and computational perspectives to ask: Can we build a unified account of motivation across the lifespan? ✨
Congrats, Alex!!! 🥳
Dr. Alexandra WittOver the moon to announce that, as of last Friday, I’m officially #PhDone! I’d like to thank everyone who supported me along the way, including, but not limited to, my amazing supervisor @thecharleywu.bsky.social, and all members (past or present) of the HMC lab and the @velezcolab.bsky.social 🎓
Congrats, Rachit!! Super well deserved! 🥳
Rachit DubeyHonored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!! Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today! The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/
Honored to contribute a Journal Club piece to @natrevpsychol.nature.com! I explore Robert White's seminal "competence motivation" framework (1959) and why it remains relevant over 60 years later—from why toddlers insist on doing things themselves to designing intrinsically motivated AI. 🤖
Nature Reviews Psychology‘Motivation reconsidered’ reconsidered Journal Club by Bella Fascendini go.nature.com/3IwYftH
One of the most brilliant scientists in CogSci + one of the best institutions to study CogSci. 💫 Apply!!
Bonan Zhao (赵博囡)My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!
Excited to present at @CogSci2025 tomorrow at 1pm in Salon 6! Looking forward to presenting alongside incredible cognitive scientists @cvales.bsky.social, @elainewang.bsky.social, and @junyi.bsky.social ✨
Vélez Lab at UCSDThe CoLab is headed to #CogSci2025!! 🥳 Here's where to find us!
Come check out my lab mate Ham Huang’s cool work and cape! 😎
Cognitive Science SocietyBecause nothing says “ready to present” like literally wearing your findings at #CogSci2025 Ham Huang leveled up from poster session to superhero mode! 🦸
Congrats, @emiecz.bsky.social !! Super, super cool work! 🍞
Elizabeth MieczkowskiSo excited our paper is now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! Huge thanks to our editor and reviewers 🧠 Their thoughtful suggestions inspired Experiments 3 & 4, including a striking inverse correlation between idleness judgments and speed-up predictions
So exited to work with such a fun bunch this summer! 🙌 Welcome to the lab! 🥳
Vélez Lab at UCSDWe are so excited to welcome our summer RA's to the lab! Looking forward to a productive summer💫 @bellafascendini.bsky.social @hamhuang.bsky.social @creppy-r.bsky.social
This is so cool!!
Tristan YatesWhy do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I had a great time and learned so much last year! Highly recommend!
Lei Zhang | 张磊🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!