shenkev.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist by vocation. Scientist scientist by compulsion. Trying to answer big questions one small idea at a time. PhD candidate with Peter Dayan at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Freestyle hiphop dancer, snowboarder.
👤 Joined on 28 August 2025
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@shenkev.bsky.socialVery honored that our work was selected for the Paper of the Year Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics! Many thanks to @socforneuroecon.bsky.social for this special recognition, and to co-recipient @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social and co-authors Arkady & Christian! bsky.app/profile/nikl...
Show PostI take great joy in using a pullout faucet to create a "whirlpool" in the pot I'm washing, with peak joy ~exponential in rotational velocity. This surely points to something deep about human cognition, but I'm not sure what.
Show PostAutism has long been linked to difficulties with Theory of Mind. But what exactly is driving these differences? And what happens in the brain? In our new preprint, we show that adaptive mentalization might be key. A 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro osf.io/preprints/ps...
Show PostI always wondered what the point of going to conferences was. Finally figured it out this year at @cogscisociety.bsky.social and CCN: to maximize the number of interesting, fulfilling scientific conversations! Had such a blast in Rio and NYC, will cherish all the convos I had :)
Show PostThis week's #PaperILike is "People construct simplified mental representations to plan" (Ho et al., Nature 2022). People generate ("construe") simplified task representations on-the-fly. (Robots should too!) Also: awesome first paragraph. PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2105.06948
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