Dr. Alexandra Witt
Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN-CBS working on computational models of social cognition 🧠🤖 she/her
- Happy to announce I started a postdoc with @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social at RIKEN-CBS! 🎉 I'm absolutely thrilled to be here (and not just because it's easy to find great waterfalls) For this position, I'm broadening my research to include more interactive and naturalistic social learning settings 🧠
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra WittI am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!
- Over 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 🎓
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra WittMy 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!
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra WittDon't miss it! Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen! Deadline for your abstracts is August 17! Participation is free! Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!
- #CompNeuro Satellite Symposium at the Göttingen Cognition Forum (Oct 14-15), deadline for abstract submission extended to Aug 17. Topics: • Neural Interfaces • Cognition, Circuits & Cells • Neural Circuit #Evolution events.gwdg.de/event/1099/
- Happening today after lunch! Stop by W-213 (conveniently placed at the very entrance of the salon, near fresh air!) to hear about positivity biases across individual and social learning #cogsci2025
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- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra WittThrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.
- Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social @lucasmolleman.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- This was so fun! Thanks to everyone for coming, presenting, and exchanging ideas! :)
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra WittDelighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)
- 🚨CogSci preprint alert🚨 When you look at reviews, do you like to focus on positive or negative ones? @stepalminteri.bsky.social, @thecharleywu.bsky.social and I set out to investigate how learning rate biases differ between individual and social learning in our new study. osf.io/bcrw9_v2 🧵 below!
- In individual learning, prior research often reports a stable positivity bias: learning rates for positive prediction errors are higher than those for negative ones (i.e. we update positive outcomes more strongly than negative ones).
- Reposted by Dr. Alexandra Witt👨🎤COSMOS strikes back🌠! This time in Tokyo 🇯🇵 with a fantastic new program designed to teach computational modeling of social phenomena. As always, it's free to attend & we will offer travel stipends to ensure diverse attendance. For details visit 👉 cosmossummerschool.github.io/application/ pls share🙏
- How do we integrate social information from others with similar, but distinct, preferences? Find the answer in the first publication of my PhD, now out in PNAS! (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Or get the quick rundown in the thread below 🧵
- Ever had to go through the gruelling process of finding a good restaurant based on Google reviews? 🍝 Come check out my poster today to learn how humans use social information from others with similar, but nonidentical, tastes! #CogSci2024 (P1-LL-178!)
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- Happy to share that I recently started a research visit at the @velezcolab.bsky.social - looking forward to collaborating with the experts on collaboration, and to delve back into neuroscience 🥳 🧠
- Super stoked to announce that the preprint for my first PhD project is out! 🥳 In everyday life, we often rely on other people's opinions, despite them not sharing our exact preferences. But how do we do this adaptively? Find out in this 🧵 (1/7) or here: osf.io/e4g3q
