How do children’s exploration strategies change across development? New preprint with Azzurra Ruggeri, Silja Kessler, and @ericschulz.bsky.social: “Tiny Alchemists: The Developmental Emergence of Empowerment in Exploration” osf.io/preprints/ps... Paper summary below 1/6

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

What influences whether people have fun with a task? Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports! rdcu.be/eI069 Paper summary below 1/4

Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games

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What a day. Our foundation model of cognitive science is out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @marcelbinz.bsky.social's thread: bsky.app/profile/marc... Centaur is featured by the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s... We got featured in a Nature views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition - Nature

A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in experiments expressible in natural language...

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Marcel Binz@marcelbinz.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to see our Centaur project out in @nature.com. TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.

I had so much fun being a guest on the @behindthescreens.bsky.social podcast! 🤩 If you're curious about how we use games in research (and you understand German), check out their latest episode!

Behind the Screens@behindthescreens.bsky.social · last yr.

Was ist #Spaß? Wie kann man ihn mit Tools wie Super Mario Maker untersuchen und was kann man daraus fürs #GameDesign ableiten? Mit Kognitionswissenschaftlerin Dr. @frabraendle.bsky.social diskutieren wir darüber in unserer neuen Folge – viel Spaß beim Hören! behind-the-screens.de/2025/04/17/w...

Our workshop at RLDM on intrinsic motivation is still accepting abstracts for lightning talks - two weeks left to submit! More info on our website: sites.google.com/view/pimbaa2... Come join us in Dublin! 🤩 @jramirezruiz.bsky.social @surabhisnath.bsky.social @becketebs.bsky.social

PIMBAA @ RLDM2025

Inviting all Curious Agents to attend our workshop! The goal of PIMBAA is to bring together experts in intrinsic motivation across cognitive sciences, neuroscience, developmental science, robotics and...

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