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01-11-2019
Victoria Amo joined our lab
Welcome, Victoria!
Victoria has joined the Rationality Enhancement Group as a researcher.
Victoria Amo
Rationality Enhancement
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22-10-2019
Article about To-Do List Gamification Project in Scientific American
Great news! Scientific American published an article about our to-do list gamification project.
Falk Lieder
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15-10-2019
Jugoslav Stojcheski joined our lab
Welcome, Jugoslav!
Jugoslav is a master's degree student in machine learning at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and a student assistant in the Rationality Enhancement Group. He is interested in artificial intelligence and curious about human behavior, neuroscience and psychology.
He joined us from Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Jugoslav Stojcheski
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23-09-2019
Julian Skirzynski joined our lab
Welcome, Julian!
Julian is a researcher at Rationality Enhancement group. He is interested in scientific interests include modeling higher level cognitive processes, synergies between cognitive science and machine learning, explainable AI, and improving cognitive skills.
Julian Skirzynski
Rationality Enhancement
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09-09-2019
Yash Raj Jain returned to our lab!
Welcome back, Yash!
Yash Raj Jain first joined our lab for an internship on measuring and reverse-engineering metacognitive learning in 2018 and has since returned to us to continue his work as a researcher. Thanks, Yash!
Yash is pursuing a dual major in Computer Science and Economics at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India.
Yash Raj Jain
Rationality Enhancement
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01-09-2019
Valkyrie Felso joined our lab
Welcome, Val!
Valkyrie Felso has joined our lab as a Ph.D. student working on techniques from reinforcement learning such as inverse reinforcement learning and shaping in order to help people improve their decisions. Welcome Valkyrie!
Valkyrie Felso
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27-07-2019
Decision advisor put to test
In one of our JDM absracts we evaluated a decision advisor by ClearerThinking.org. We found out that it was successful at helping people avoid typical mistakes in making decisions.
Gabriela Iwama
Falk Lieder
Rationality Enhancement
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08-07-2019
REG visits Montréal
This summer Montréal will be the stage for three important conferences concerning research in the fields of psychology, cognitive science, machine learning, cognitive modelling and decision making: the 4th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM), the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Sociey for Mathematical Psychology and the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (MathPsych/ICCM), and the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). As a matter of course, the Rationality Enhancement Group will be represented there as well.
Maria Wirzberger
Falk Lieder
Yash Raj Jain
Lin Xu
Florian Mohnert
Gabriela Iwama
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01-07-2019
Bastian Nowozimski joined our lab
Welcome, Bastian!
After getting his Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science at the University of Tübingen, he is now proceeding to get his Master's degree.
As a student assistant, he is supporting the Rationality Enhancement Group through his role as Lab and Study Coordinator.
Bastian Nowozimski
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20-06-2019
Lab's first JDM submissions
The Society of Judgement and Decision Making proudly hosts an Annual Meeting as interdisciplinary forum for decision analysts and researchers from various fields such as psychology, economics, or organizational studies. This year, it will take place in Montréal and we are very excited about our submitted abstracts on the Goal Characteristics (GC) questionnaire and the Decision Advisor. Both turned out really well!
Gabriela Iwama
Maria Wirzberger
Falk Lieder
Rationality Enhancement
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07-06-2019
Lab's first CCN submissions
The Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) will be held in Berlin in September this year and provide an interdisciplinary forum for understanding the computations that underlie complex behavior. We have submitted two abstracts that introduce our work on meta-cognitive reinforcement learning and computational models of goal pursuit. We look forward to present our work at this exciting occasion!
Falk Lieder
Yash Raj Jain
Florian Mohnert
Sanit Gupta
Vasundhara Rakesh
Rationality Enhancement
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05-06-2019
Article in Scientific Reports published
Our postdoc Maria Wirzberger recently published an article in the renowned Nature journal Scientific Reports. Congratulations, Maria!
Maria Wirzberger
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01-06-2019
Lab's first Psychonomics submission
Founded in 1959, the Psychonomic Society celebrates its 60th birthday this year. The Annual Meeting will be hosted in Montréal this year and we submitted an abstract on our Goal Characteristics (GC) questionnaire. We would be happy to join the celebration and proudly introduce our work!
Gabriela Iwama
Maria Wirzberger
Falk Lieder
Rationality Enhancement
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10-05-2019
Anastasia Lado joined our lab
Welcome, Anastasia!
Anastasia has joined our group as a Student Assistent and is supporting the research on Executive functions Training.
Anastasia Lado
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02-03-2019
Lab's first RLDM submissions
The lab has submitted three wonderful abstracts to this year's 4th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making at the McGill University in Montréal. They introduce research around our intelligent cognitive tutor and cover aspects of overcoming present bias, inspecting cognitive decline, and a process-related approach to trace the evolution of planning skills. We keep our fingers crossed!
Falk Lieder
Yash Raj Jain
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02-02-2019
Lab's first CogSci submissions
We have submitted a great set of papers to this year's 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Montreal. A historic moment for the lab! We will continue this proud tradition in the years to come.
Falk Lieder
Maria Wirzberger
Florian Mohnert
Yash Raj Jain
Lin Xu
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01-02-2019
Gabriela Iwama joined our lab
Gabriela Iwama has joined our lab for an internship on the development of psychometric measures of cognitive growth. She is currently working towards her bachelor degree in Psychology at the University of Brasília. Welcome Gabriela!
Gabriela Iwama
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28-01-2019
Mateo Tosic joined our lab
Mateo Tosic has joined our lab as student assistant focusing on software and web development. He is a bachelor student of Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen. Welcome Mateo!
Mateo Tosic
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19-01-2019
Article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences accepted
Behavioral and Brain Sciences has accepted our target article “Resource-rational analysis: understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources”. According to the editor we have set a new record with our 53 page long response to the reviewers!
Falk Lieder
Rationality Enhancement
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14-01-2019
Article in Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences accepted
Good news! Our paper “Doing more with less: Meta-reasoning and meta-learning in humans and machines” has been accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
Falk Lieder
Rationality Enhancement
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15-10-2018
Lin Xu joined our lab
Lin Xu has joined our lab for an internship on incentivizing self-directed learning with optimal brain points. She studied human-computer-interaction at the University of Munich and received her master’s degree in 2018. Welcome Lin!
Lin Xu
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04-09-2018
Best poster award at KogWis 2018
From September 3-6, 2018 the 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science (GK) was held at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Contributing to the main topic of the conference "Computational Approaches to Cognitive Science", we presented our work on cognitive tutors, which won the best poster award!
Falk Lieder
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01-08-2018
Yash Raj Jain joined our lab
Yash Raj Jain has joined our lab for an internship on measuring and reverse-engineering metacognitive learning. He is a final year undergraduate pursuing a dual major in Computer Science and Economics at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India. Welcome Yash!
Yash Raj Jain
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01-07-2018
Florian Mohnert joined our lab
Florian Mohnert has joined our lab for an internship on optimal goal setting. He is a Master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. Welcome Florian!
Florian Mohnert
Rationality Enhancement
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01-07-2018
Our lab started
As part of the Cyber Valley initiative, the Max Planck Research Group for Rationality Enhancement headed by Dr. Falk Lieder started today. The scientific mission of the group is to lay the cognitive and technological foundations for helping people become more effective. Our approach combines building and testing computational models of human learning and decision-making with developing intelligent systems for enhancing human rationality and evaluating them in field experiments. We are looking forward to five productive and successful years!
Falk Lieder
Intelligent Control Systems
Physics for Inference and Optimization
Rationality Enhancement
Embodied Vision
Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems
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25-05-2018
Cyber Valley attracts research group leaders from around the world
Research cooperation in the field of Intelligent Systems gains momentum
Michael Black
Tamara Almeyda
