Neil Bramley
Lecturer
- Psychology Department
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room S2, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Availability
My office hours are 12:00 - 14:00 on Mondays. Please email to arrange meetings outside those times (or simply book a meeting with me with this: https://calendly.com/neil-bramley/30min)
CV
92393.pdf
Qualifications
2019 - Postdoc, Computational Cognitive Science, NYU
2017 - PhD, Experimental Psychology, UCL
2013 - MRes, Computer Science, UCL
2011 - MSc, Cognitive & Decision Sciences, UCL
2009 - MA (Hons), Philosophy, University of Glasgow
Undergraduate teaching
I teach the language section of Psychology 2B and a Y4 tutorial group (Mondays 11am, Jan 14th - Feb 11th)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am keen to supervise MSc and PhD students interested in cognitive science related topics
Current PhD students supervised
PhD
MRes
Research summary
Computational cognitive science. The goal of my research is to better understand the algorithms, processes and representations that underpin human intelligence. I generally approach this by developing computational theories of human learning representation and control, designing challenging and interactive tasks that distill elements of the challenges faced by natural cognition (see Demos) and having people and my models attempt to solve them. By comparing the behaviour of models to that of people, I try to gain insight into the mechanisms that people use to to solve problems and adapt their behaviour. As well as helping to understand human intelligence, insights from my research inform the development of artificial systems capable of learning and behaving in more flexible and human-like ways.
Causal cognition, active learning, hypothesis generation, control, judgment and decision making, resource rationality, game theory, optimal teaching, iterated learning, rational analysis, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science (see Research)
Research activities
- Grounding compositional hypothesis generation in experience Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
- CogSci 2017 to Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- Cogsci2016 - 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society to Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Testing one or multiple : How beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation
In:
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000680
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Children’s causal interventions combine discrimination and confirmation
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
A causal model approach to dynamic control
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Causal structure learning with continuous variables in continuous time
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Grounding compositional hypothesis generation in specific instances
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published)