Franziska Brändle@FraBraendle

PostDoc at the University of Oxford with @summerfieldlab

Joined January 2022
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Finally, I can say it's #PhDone! Thank you so much for an incredible time, @cpilab. Now looking forward to new adventures in Oxford with @summerfieldlab.
Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI@cpilab
11 Nov 2024
Congratulations to @FraBraendle for successfully defending her PhD! It's been a lot of fun. We wish Franziska all the best for her next position as a postdoctoral fellow in the @summerfieldlab at @UniofOxford.
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Looking forward to attending CogSci next week (for the first time in person). 🤩 If you want to chat, let me know! I'll be presenting a poster on Friday about differences in exploration strategies between adults and children in an alchemy game. Feel free to drop by. 🙂
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Looking for a new paradigm for your next research project? Then look no further: nature.com/articles/s41562-0… (1/6)

Using games to understand the mind

Nature Human Behaviour - To study cognition, researchers have traditionally used laboratory-based experiments, but games offer a valuable alternative: they are intuitive and enjoyable. In this...

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..., @TobiasUHauser, @mark_ho_, @joshdeleeuw, @weijima01, @KouMurayama, Jonathan D. Nelson, @basvanopheusden, Thomas Pouncy, @jrafner, @iyadrahwan, @RobbRutledge, @jacobsherson, Özgür Şimşek, @hugospiers, ... (5/6)
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..., @summerfieldlab, Mirko Thalmann, @natvelali, @AndrewJWatrous, @MITCoCoSci. We hope you enjoy it! 😊 (6/6)
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Happy to see our work on complexity and beauty being published! 😊
Surabhi S Nath@surabhisnath
10 Jun 2024
Out today at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts 🤗 awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2… #journalpaperstakeforever 😅
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📢 Exciting opportunity ahead! The Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich is looking to hire two PhD students to work on the intersection of computational cognitive science and machine learning with a starting date in 2024. @HelmholtzMunich @ELLISforEurope
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Excited for #CCN2023 kicking off tomorrow! 🤩 If you're in Oxford and would like to connect, feel free to message me or visit my poster on motivational drivers of engagement (work with @TheCharleyWu & @cpilab) on Friday at P-2B.114.
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Looking forward to #CCN2023 tomorrow in Oxford! A great selection of research from @HanqiZhou_Ivy @alexandrawitt_ @AFurryBear1 @valerio_rubino @FraBraendle @RyutaroUchiyama @nir_moneta + many other hmc-lab.com members / collabs. See you there! @CogCompNeuro
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I could not agree more, I had a great time! Highly recommended :)
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How do humans explore in rich environments like the online game “Little Alchemy 2”? Our paper “Empowerment contributes to exploration behaviour in a creative video game” with Lena Stocks, @MITCoCoSci, @gershbrain, @cpilab now in @NatureHumBehav. rdcu.be/dhCnH 1/6
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This drive for empowerment is eliminated when people play a version of the game that lacks recognizable semantics, indicating that they use their knowledge about the world to guide their exploration. 5/6
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Our results suggest that the drive for empowerment may be a potent source of intrinsic motivation in richly structured domains. They also point to the necessity to use more complex experimental paradigms to study elaborate strategies of human exploration. 6/6
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This drive for empowerment is eliminated when people play a version of the game that lacks recognizable semantics, indicating that they use their knowledge about the world to guide their exploration.
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Our results suggest that the drive for empowerment may be a potent source of intrinsic motivation in richly structured domains. They also point to the necessity to use more complex experimental paradigms to study elaborate strategies of human exploration.
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