Samuel J Gershman
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Bari B, Gershman S
Comput Psychiatr
. 2025 Feb;
9(1):63-75.
PMID: 39959564
Anxiety is intimately related to the desire for information and, under some accounts, thought to arise from the intolerance of uncertainty. Here, we seek to test this hypothesis by studying...
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Binz M, Alaniz S, Roskies A, Aczel B, Bergstrom C, Allen C, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2025 Jan;
122(5):e2401227121.
PMID: 39869798
Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly incorporated into scientific workflows. However, we have yet to fully grasp the implications of this integration. How should the advancement of large language...
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Gershman S, Lak A
J Neurosci
. 2025 Jan;
45(9).
PMID: 39788740
Limits on information processing capacity impose limits on task performance. We show that male and female mice achieve performance on a perceptual decision task that is near-optimal given their capacity...
4.
Xiang Y, Landy J, Cushman F, Velez N, Gershman S
J Exp Soc Psychol
. 2024 Dec;
116.
PMID: 39712555
Individual contributors to a collaborative task are often rewarded for going above and beyond-salespeople earn commissions, athletes earn performance bonuses, and companies award special parking spots to their employee of...
5.
Orchinik R, Dubey R, Gershman S, Powell D, Bhui R
PNAS Nexus
. 2024 Nov;
3(11):pgae485.
PMID: 39534651
Despite overwhelming scientific consensus on the existence of human-caused climate change, public opinion among Americans remains split. Directly informing people of scientific consensus is among the most prominent strategies for...
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Sosa F, Gershman S, Ullman T
Cognition
. 2024 Nov;
254:105995.
PMID: 39499976
How are people able to understand everyday physical events with such ease? One hypothesis suggests people use an approximate probabilistic simulation of the world. A contrasting hypothesis is that people...
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Nguyen T, Bezdek M, Gershman S, Bobick A, Braver T, Zacks J
PNAS Nexus
. 2024 Oct;
3(10):pgae459.
PMID: 39445050
Humans form sequences of -representations of the current situation-to predict how activity will unfold. Multiple mechanisms have been proposed for how the cognitive system determines when to segment the stream...
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Gershman S, Lak A
bioRxiv
. 2024 Sep;
PMID: 39345642
Limits on information processing capacity impose limits on task performance. We show that animals achieve performance on a perceptual decision task that is near-optimal given their capacity limits, as measured...
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Bates C, Alvarez G, Gershman S
Commun Psychol
. 2024 Sep;
2(1):3.
PMID: 39242907
Over the last few decades, psychologists have developed precise quantitative models of human recall performance in visual working memory (VWM) tasks. However, these models are tailored to a particular class...
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Beukers A, Collin S, Kempner R, Franklin N, Gershman S, Norman K
Commun Psychol
. 2024 Sep;
2(1):28.
PMID: 39242783
We all possess a mental library of schemas that specify how different types of events unfold. How are these schemas acquired? A key challenge is that learning a new schema...