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Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Over the course of millions of years, the human brain has been intricately shaped by the process of evolution, transforming it into an unparalleled learning system capable of adeptly navigating complex and ever-changing natural environments. While its remarkable learning abilities surpass those of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, the...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Habits are inflexible patterns of behavior that have become deeply ingrained through repetition. When it comes to situations we are likely to encounter often, habitual control can be effective and efficient. When passing by the Campanile en route to class, you might turn left automatically, and eventually arrive at your...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

From founding a startup to climbing the tallest peaks, people set a wide range of objectives for themselves. How do people decide which goals to set? How do they manage progress towards different – and perhaps competing – objectives? The proposed research plans to investigate goal setting in a range of naturalistic...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Navigating complex natural environments presents a robust challenge to even the most advanced artificial systems, yet humans can often handle these same challenges effortlessly. What algorithms underly these human capabilities to learn and generalize so efficiently? My research investigates the learning algorithms implemented by the human brain to efficiently act...