Blog
2025
Position: Postdoc in the Lindsay Lab at the Center for Data Science at New York University Duration: 2 years The Lindsay Lab is hiring a postdoc for a project on “attention” in large Vision-Language Models. Here, attention refers to the ability to flexibly guide sensory processing (not the specific Transformer mechanism). See more here. The broad goal of this project is to study attentional capacities and limitations in VLMs using methods and concepts from neuroscience and psychology. Outco...
2022
Alternative lab logo attempts “Artificial neural networks for psychology, neuroscience, and climate change” That’s the tagline on the front page of this website. You may notice that one of those things is not like the others. In this inaugural lab blog post, I’m going to explain why. At some point during the pandemic, I got really into reading about climate change. It may have been because I had my first kid, though that didn’t feel like the conscious reason. It may have been b...