Bramley Computational Cognitive Science Lab

Computational Cognitive Science Group at the University of Edinburgh

About

Bramley Lab is based the school of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We are an interdisciplinary group of cognitive scientists, psychologists, philosophers and computer scientists and one part of a larger Computational Cognitive Science community spanning PPLS and Informatics.

Mission

We are interested in understanding the building blocks of human intelligence. In particular, current lab members focus on causal cognition, active learning, generalisation, hypothesis generation, and control. We are part funded by an EPSRC New Investigator Award on Computational Constructivism.

Approach

We take a computational approach to studying human cognition and the basis of intelligent behaviour. This typically involves a combination of behavioural experiments with adults and children and building computational models that synthesise humanlike learning, representation and behaviour.

Nature Human Behaviour, 8(1), 125-136. (2024)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2024)

Cognition, 242, 105633. (2024)

Cognitive Psychology, 140, 101542. (2023)

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
🏆 Computational Modeling Prize in Higher-level Cognition 🏆
(2023)

Cognitive Psychology, 137, 101506. (2022)

Developmental Psychology, 58(12), 2310–2321. (2022)

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 2314–2324. (2022)

Computational Brain & Behavior (2022)

Entropy, 24, 863. (2022)

Cognitive Psychology, (195), pp. 9–38 (2018)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition (2018)

Psychological Review, (124), 3, pp. 301–338 (2017)

All Publications

Neil R Bramley

Principal Investigator

Tianwei Gong

Postdoc

Nicolas Navarre

PhD Student

Stephanie Droop

PhD Student

Ella Markham

PhD Student

Max Taylor-Davies

PhD Student

Chentian Jiang

Affiliated PhD Student

Fahd Yazin

PhD Student

Danqin Zhao

MScR Student

Héctor Otero Mediero

Research Associate

Vlad Grigoras

Undergraduate Research Assistant

All members

Lab Alumni

Bonan Zhao

PhD 2019-2023, now Postdoc at Princeton

Jan-Philipp Fränken

PhD 2019-2022, now Postdoc at Stanford

Tadeg Quillien

Was Postdoc, now PPLS Chancellor's Fellow at Edinburgh

Aba Szollosi

Was Postdoc, now faculty at UNSW

Tobias Thejll-Madsen

MSc 2020, now PhD student at Glasgow

Yuyan Zhang

MSc 2020, now senior manager at Amazon Alexa

Jonas Mago

MSc 2020, now PhD student at McGill

Simon Valentin

Was PhD Student, now Data Scientist at Amazon

Lab friends & collaborators

Anna Coenen

Data analyst, New York Times

Zach Davis

Data Scientist, Facebook

Peter Dayan

Director, MPI, Tübingen

George Dean

Postdoc, Digital Minds Project, Oxford

Saoirse Connor Desai

Postdoc, UNSW, Sydney

Alex Doumas

Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Tobias Gerstenberg

Assistant Professor, Stanford

Tom Griffiths

Professor, Princeton

Todd Gureckis

Professor, NYU

Jess Hamrick

Research Scientist, Deep Mind

Dave Lagnado

Professor, UCL

Brenden Lake

Assistant Professor, NYU

Pablo Leon

Postdoc, Brown University

Anna Leshinskaya

Postdoc, University of Calfornia, Davis

Zhiwei Li

Data Scientist, BlockScience

Chris Lucas

Reader, University of Edinburgh

Ralf Mayrhofer

Fellow, University of Goettingen

Teresa McCormack

Professor, Queens, Belfast

Bjoern Meder

Professor, Potsdam University

Jonathan Nelson

Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey

Philip Newell

Lecturer, University of Bristol

Tassos Noulas

Data Science Lead, Firefly

Magda Osman

Professor, Oxford University

M Pacer

Data Scientist, Netflix

Paula Parpart

Postdoc, University of Warwick

Hugh Rabbagliati

Professor, University of Edinburgh

Bob Rehder

Professor, NYU

Anselm Rothe

Postdoc, MPI, Berlin

Azzurra Ruggeri

Research Group Leader, MPI, Berlin

Eric Schulz

Research Group Leader, MPI, Tübingen

Henrik Singmann

Assistant Professor, University College London

Kenny Smith

Professor, University of Edinburgh

Maarten Speekenbrink

Professor, UCL

Josh Tenenbaum

Professor, MIT

Fei Xu

Professor, Berkeley

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