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Jonathan D. Nelson
I study human cognition using a combination of behavioral experiments,
eye tracking, brain imaging, and probabilistic modeling.
My current research foci:
-- relationship between intuitive beliefs and real world stochastic processes
-- statistical foundations of active visual perception: eye movements as hypothesis testing (eye movement experiments); relationship between salience (bottom-up) and task-relevant information (top-down) in visual attention
-- neural bases of the value of information for categorization (fMRI experiments)
-- use of optimal experimental design principles to design informative behavioral experiments, to characterize the intuitive value of information
-- communicative pragmatics of biases (base rate neglect, conservatism) in Bayesian inference
-- effective communication of probabilities using experienced-based learning and natural sampling
-- characterization of helpful and unhelpful strategies for teaching by examples
-- Bayesian modeling of learning on probabilistic and deterministic categorization tasks
-- (see my papers or my CV for more info)
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Contact info:
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Group
Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
office: room 226
email: jonathan.d.nelson@gmail.com
phone: 030-82-406-658 (within Germany), or (+49) 30-82-406-658 (from elsewhere)
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