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A photograph of Joshua Tenenbaum portrait in front of a whiteboard with various equations, shapes, and other symbols written on it with marker.A photograph of Joshua Tenenbaum portrait in front of a whiteboard with various equations, shapes, and other symbols written on it with marker.
A photograph of Joshua Tenenbaum portrait in front of a whiteboard with various equations, shapes, and other symbols written on it with marker.A photograph of Joshua Tenenbaum portrait in front of a whiteboard with various equations, shapes, and other symbols written on it with marker.

Awardee

Joshua Tenenbaum, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Affiliations
  • Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications

Prospective search time estimates reveal the strengths and limits of internal models of visual search

J Exp Psychol Gen, March 20, 2023

M Mazor, M Siegel, and J. Tenenbaum

The neural architecture of theory-based reinforcement learning

Neuron, March 10, 2023

MS Tomov, PA Tsividis, T Pouncy, J. Tenenbaum, and SJ Gershman

Projects

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Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
Freiwald project visual

Investigating symbol-like reasoning in the brain: Neural mechanisms of compositional action planning

Funded Work

Featuring Joshua Tenenbaum

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Reaching Across the Aisle To Find the Algorithms of Vision

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