3 papers
cs.AI2026
Sparks of In Silico Cognitive Science: Theories from Simulated Data Can Generalize to Humans
Akshay K. Jagadish, Younes Strittmatter, Nori Jacoby +4
Behavioral foundation models have been proposed as stand-ins for human participants across settings, but it is unclear whether theories discovered on them generalize to humans or m…
q-bio.NC2026
Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist
Akshay K. Jagadish, Younes Strittmatter, Nori Jacoby +5
Across the sciences, autonomous systems are increasingly being used in closed-loop discovery, proposing new theories and designing and running experiments to test them. This approa…
cs.LG2025
Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant
Sabrina Namazova, Alessandra Brondetta, Younes Strittmatter +2
Simulators have revolutionized scientific practice across the natural sciences. By generating data that reliably approximate real-world phenomena, they enable scientists to acceler…