Rochelle Kaper
phd student @ uc irvine cog sci w/ Megan Peters.
🧠 structure learning, metacognition, perception, comp cog neuro.
rochellekaper.com
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- Reposted by Rochelle KaperNew paper just published in Cerebral Cortex 🧠 Frontal midline theta synchronization causally supports updating statistical regularities, improving adaptive prediction without boosting simple performance. doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf346 @orspesthy.bsky.social #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper📜 Very happy to see our article on domain-general metacognition now published in Psychological Sciences ! Congrats to my co-authors @khat.bsky.social, Renate Rutiku, Michał Wierzchoń, and @krsandberg.bsky.social #skudnet journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Quick thread:
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperFinal paper of my PhD 🤗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making. However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperJoin us 7-15 Feb for Python for Computational Science Week! 🐍 Strengthen your Python skills at your own pace with light support on Reddit. 🤓 Perfect for students applying to our July courses or potential TAs looking to practice. ➡️ Take the pledge: airtable.com/appIQSZMZ0Jx... #PythonWeek
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper"Forward and backward prediction in learning and perception" @predictivebrain.bsky.social @clarepress.bsky.social nice to see our work situated within a broader research program on differences between learning & perceptual predictions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Rochelle KaperOver the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperStimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics: osf.io/x5atk
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperMassive kudos to @rochellekaper.bsky.social for incredible work putting together a super complex design, gorgeous analyses, and excellent writing. Clever, insightful, and brilliant all around! All materials and analyses shared openly too – see link for details!
- super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Excited to share our NEWEST PREPRINT led by @rochellekaper.bsky.social!! osf.io/preprints/ps... We ask: How do people learn multiple layers of environmental structure – w/o feedback – & how well do they *know* they’ve learned? Turns out, stimulus familiarity matters more than we thought! 🧵👇
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperA normative account of human temporal structure learning biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperFor 15(!) years I’ve been teaching introductory #MRI to grad students, and struggled to find a textbook for a wide variety of backgrounds. I'm happy to share an online textbook I created, fully open source (including code for generating figures and plots shown): larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperWith some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperMeta-learning is expressed through altered prefrontal cortical dynamics biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperCongrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperHappy to share this new paper from the lab led by Angus Chapman, now out in PLoS Biology! It presents an integrated spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision. @afchapman.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperBuilding hierarchically nested structure by rapid neural sequences www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- is it considered character building when you have to cut your finished 2500 word proposal to 1000🥶
- update: DID IT
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- Reposted by Rochelle KaperPlease help spread the word! All contributions tax deductible!
- Today is #GivingTuesday! Join us in helping to make computational science education accessible to everyone, everywhere! Since, 2021, Neuromatch Academy and Climatematch Academy have supported nearly 14,000 learners from 135 countries. Your support makes this possible. neuromatch.io/donate/
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper"Neuroscientists need better training in computational methods." We got you. Join us in July: neuromatch.io/courses/ Our #ComputationalNeuroscience course is the perfect way to gain practical experience and build a strong foundation in this field.
- As neuroscience expands, @thetransmitter.bsky.social asks, how can neuroscience training programs best meet the needs of students and the field? See what survey respondents had to say: www.thetransmitter.org/training/how... #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperNature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperNew preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaperand... that's a WRAP (ok, in 2.5 hours) on #SfN25 #SfN2025 @sfn.org! 6 posters. 5 days. many new ideas. here's to my lab and all their accomplishments!
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- Wednesday Afternoon: D15 - Naturalistic task framing improves older adults' ability to infer and navigate complex associative networks by Rohin Palsule, @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social, & @sharonmnoh.bsky.social www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
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- Wednesday Afternoon: D21 - The impact of learning sequences in encouraging distinct memory representations to support associative inference in older-adults by @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social, Rohin Palsule, & @sharonmnoh.bsky.social with @prestonlab.bsky.social www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper#SfN Poster 5 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @rochellekaper.bsky.social PSTR363.17 / UU13 Quantifying the emergence of metacognition in structure learning www.abstractsonline....
- presenting TODAY at #SfN2025 🧠 if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈 📍PSTR363.17 / UU13 🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
- Reposted by Rochelle Kapergooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
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- Monday Afternoon: TT2 - Humans adaptively discount successor representations when navigating graph-structured spaces by Alexa Booras and Theodoros Kapogianis, with @chrastil.bsky.social www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaperpaper🚨 When we learn a category, do we learn the structure of the world, or just where to draw the line? In a cross-species study, we show that humans, rats & mice adapt optimally to changing sensory statistics, yet rely on fundamentally different learning algorithms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperGood morning from San Diego. Come see my poster (UU7) on splitting and merging latent states in non-Markovian environments, at #Sfn2025 right now !
- Monday Morning UU7 - Contingency-dependent state augmentation as a normative learning rule for non-Markovian tasks by @jungsuy.bsky.social, Aidan Goeschel, and @dalezhou.bsky.social www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper🚀 New preprint alert 🚀 How easily can working memory create interference in long-term memories? Our new preprint, Interference Across Memory Systems: Disrupting Long-Term Memories Through Working Memory examines this osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ @sahcan.bsky.social Anna Lena Mantei, Daniel Schneider
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperBayesCog: A freely available course in Bayesian statistics and hierarchical Bayesian modeling for psychological science: osf.io/ua5ng
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaperme & my Theme K poster are finally at #SfN25! stop by board WW13 anytime between now & tomorrow evening to learn more about how philosophy can help navigate meta-scientific questions about models in neuroscience 🧠 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperCome see our lab's posters at #SfN2025! With great work including @alinatu.bsky.social @mjstarrett.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and more!
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper#SfN25 here I come! I'll be presenting at SfN's first poster session today in San Diego (Saturday 1pm-5pm). If you're interested or knowledgeable in human navigation, grid cells, entorhinal cortex, and/or path integration, I'd love to chat with you. (I have questions!) PSTR043.27 / Board HH12
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperCome check out my SFN nano talk @ 4:15 on Sunday, especially if you’re interested in: - spicy debates in task switching - using control theory to compare latent dynamical systems fit to RNNs and EEG eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... Stay for the whole ‘Adaptive Choice’ symposium!
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper🧠⚽️🏀🏐 Preprint Alert!! We built the Spot The Ball benchmark to test visual social inference – the ability to infer missing information from others’ behavior – in Vision Language Models. Try the task yourself here: nehabalamurugan.com/spot-the-bal...
- come check it out🥳👇
- 5. Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @rochellekaper.bsky.social PSTR363.17 / UU13 Quantifying the emergence of metacognition in structure learning www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperOur group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread:
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperVery pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3) Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44... PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
- Reposted by Rochelle Kaper🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with @ktsetsos.bsky.social and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperMy lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperI am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperSometimes it can be a pain choosing the route, and toughest when two paths seem equivalent. Nice new article from Liz Crastil's lab explores what factors drive choices of route: Graph Properties Drive Navigational Selection between Equidistant Routes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- justice for line drawings stimuli 🤓 #doodlebob 🧽
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- Reposted by Rochelle KaperWhen does new learning interfere with existing knowledge in people and ANNs? Great to have this out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com Work with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @tsonj.bsky.social, Lukas Braun and Jan Grohn www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperNeuromatch will be at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting #SfN,2025 (15–19 Nov, San Diego, USA) and we’d love to meet you at our community meetup! ➡️Let us know if you're attending & we will send you the meetup & our booth details: airtable.com/appWO8lu7xm3...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperStress drives the hippocampus to prioritize statistical prediction over episodic encoding biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- this view when leaving lab >> #planetoftheapes
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperOnline Now: Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperHumans learn generalizable representations through efficient coding www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Rochelle KaperA compressed code for memory discrimination biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
