Wei Ji Ma
@weijima01
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Prof of neuroscience and psychology at NYU | Co-Founder, https://t.co/ybdMwoElnI | Founder, https://t.co/92S5O65Vcz | Founding member, @ScientistAction.
New York, NY
Joined April 2016
Congratulations to @peiyuan9 for the 2024 Best Dissertation Award from @SocforNeuroecon !! The first paper from her thesis is out ( https://t.co/Nj1BamZwye) but stay tuned for more.
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Temporal discounting predicts procrastination in the real world
Congratulations to Remi Janet et al (2024) for winning the SNE 2024 Best Paper Award, and Peiyuan Zhang, New York University for winning the 2024 Best Dissertation Award. #SNE2024Awards #NeuroEconomics
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Very excited to share a new preprint where we disentangle the component processes of planning affected after damage to mPFC. With @BrainInTheMind @basvanopheusden @weijima01 @jangrohn @_Ili_Ma @thepsychologist @JohnPGrogan1 (1/6)
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My former PhD student @Peiyuan9 was profiled in @_TheTransmitter for her documentary "The opposite of dying" (internationally recognized at @sheffdocfest), which she made while doing a PhD on the cognitive mechanisms of procrastination.
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When she’s not in the lab, the cognitive scientist films documentaries that challenge her love of data and order.
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Interested in applying computational approaches to understand developmental changes in learning? I’ll be at #CCN2024 this week and would love to talk to anyone who may be interested in joining my new BU lab next summer as a PhD student or lab manager. Please reach out!
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It's good to be back! Here are some sketches from #CogSci2024:
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Why do couples look alike? 👩❤️👨 Back in 1987, researchers (Bob Zajonc, @PaulaNiedenthal et al) suggested that couples who live together grow to look alike over time. But, as the literature evolved, other researchers have cast doubt on the "facial convergence" hypothesis: THREAD🧵
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She was not only the only scientist but also the only amateur at the festival. This makes for interesting stories. Read her stories here: https://t.co/7I4KMoJdSm
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A scientist walks into a filmmaking conference... My former PhD student @peiyuan9 makes documentaries in her spare time. "The opposite of dying" was selected for the Sheffield DocFest @sheffdocfest. There, she met rising stars and industry leaders in documentary-making. 1/2
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🔔 Preprint alert!🔔"15-month-olds’ understanding of imitation in social and instrumental contexts" 👶 by @ShannonYasuda, @WenjieWLi, Deisy Martinez, @LakeBrenden, and me! https://t.co/vfP1CMnZ2u 1/6
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Lab's first paper on procrastination, by @peiyuan9. Sixteen years after I told Read Montague in my job interview that I wanted to study the topic (and he didn't laugh at me).
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Scientific Reports - Temporal discounting predicts procrastination in the real world
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An accessible introduction to constructing and interpreting Bayesian models of perceptual decision-making and action. "Bayesian Models of Perception and Action" by @weijima01, @KordingLab, and @dangoldreich is available now 👉🏻 https://t.co/aVW76gUa0O
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Looking for a new paradigm for your next research project? Then look no further: https://t.co/r47rjqVVyl (1/6)
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Nature Human Behaviour - To study cognition, researchers have traditionally used laboratory-based experiments, but games offer a valuable alternative: they are intuitive and enjoyable. In this...
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New paper out from the lab! "Sensitivity to the Instrumental Value of Choice Increases Across Development" in Psych Science. @katenuss @perrilane @HanxiaoLu1 @szorowi1 @cate_hartley
https://t.co/Qeen1zI4fA
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Across development, people tend to demonstrate a preference for contexts in which they have the opportunity to make choices. However, it is not clear how childr...
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Belated repost. It has been a great pleasure working with Paul, Tim, and Sebastian on this. Consider it an update to the 2014 paper "Changing concepts of working memory". Some of the changing concepts have now settled.
Out now in NHB (finally!), a review of visual working memory from a computational perspective, with @weijima01 @timothyfbrady and Sebastian Schneegans.
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Out now in NHB (finally!), a review of visual working memory from a computational perspective, with @weijima01 @timothyfbrady and Sebastian Schneegans.
nature.com
Nature Human Behaviour - Recent advances are revealing visual working memory representations to be richer than mere imperfect copies of perceptual events. Bays et al. discuss the latest theories of...
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Co-lead authors were Franziska Braendle and Eric Schulz, and the piece stemmed from a CogSci workshop in 2021.
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