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Samuel J. Gershman

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Open access Sep 2026

Reliability-guided meta-control in intuitive physics

Intuitive physical reasoning is an important part of daily life, but the computations underlying it remain debated. Some prominent accounts propose intuitive physics relies on mental simulation, with people evolving mental scenes forward through step-by-step. However, representing every intermediate mental state in det...

Aria Zhang, Samuel J. Gershman, T. Ullman · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

Policy regularization as a unifying theory of the striatal division of labor in learning

Learning novel behaviors requires balancing previously learned actions with the ability to flexibly adapt to changing reward contingencies. This trade-off is well documented in the division of labor between dorsolateral striatum (DLS), which promotes selection of cached, history-dependent actions, and dorsomedial stria...

Cheshta Bhatia, Samuel J. Gershman, Lucy Lai · 0 citations

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