Valentin Guigon

@guigonv.bsky.social

PhD, Cognitive neuroscientist at UMD, member of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab. I study decision-making, social learning and the formation/update of human beliefs. đź”—valentinguigon.github.io

Excited to announce I'll be teaching NACS 645: Cognitive Science next semester at UMD! This PhD-level course covers computations, representations, decision-making, and more. Can't wait to get started with our amazing grad students!

Been experimenting with AI agent systems lately (smolagents, llamaindex, langgraph, crewAI). The ecosystem is getting much more mature, tools for easy implementation are there (massive improvements over 2023 LangChain/Auto-GPT), ability to run python is insane.

Excited to share our new preprint on longitudinal changes in infant attention networks and their link to fear! My first paper in Courtney Filippi - Infant Brain & Behavior Lab in New York – grateful for the support! 🧠💫 Check it out here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Longitudinal changes in infant attention-related brain networks and fearful temperament

Anxiety disorders are hypothesized to stem in part from altered development of attention-related brain networks. These networks, including the dorsal attention network (DAN), frontal parietal network ...

medrxiv.org

After over 10 years of barely using Twitter, I’m moving to Bluesky! Looking forward to sharing ideas, connecting with others, and seeing where this platform takes me. I’ll mostly post about research, science communication, et tout ce qui pique ma curiosité. À bientôt!