We're proud to announce that two of our graduate students received prestigious awards at the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in [REDACTED LOCATION] this summer.
[REDACTED] received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for their presentation "Resource-Rational Models of Uncertainty in Multi-Armed Bandit Tasks." This research, part of [REDACTED]'s PhD dissertation, demonstrates how computational constraints shape human decision-making strategies under uncertainty.
[REDACTED]'s work shows that when people face complex decision problems with limited cognitive resources, they adopt strategies that approximate optimal solutions while remaining computationally tractable. The implications extend beyond basic research to applications in behavioral economics and AI system design.
[REDACTED] won the Best Poster Award in the Language and Communication session for their work on "Predictive Processing in Real-Time Language Comprehension: Evidence from Computational Modeling." This research combines psycholinguistic experiments with neural network models to understand how prediction facilitates language understanding.
[REDACTED]'s findings suggest that predictive mechanisms operate at multiple timescales during language comprehension, from predicting upcoming words to anticipating broader discourse structures. This work has important implications for understanding reading difficulties and developing better language technologies.
Both presentations generated significant interest from the cognitive science community, leading to new collaboration opportunities and invitations to present at other venues. The research exemplifies our lab's commitment to combining rigorous computational modeling with empirical investigation.
[REDACTED] and [REDACTED] will both be presenting updated versions of their work at upcoming conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
Congratulations to [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] for their outstanding achievements and for representing our lab so well on the international stage!
Learn more about our students' research on our People page.