What we think about

How do you represent another person? Is it the way they look? The way they sound? Their favorite foods and hobbies? Your common friends? A meaningful shared experience? How does a memorable social interaction or learning some juicy gossip change the way you think about them? Feel about them? Talk about them?

To answer these questions our brains routinely perform multiple types of complex social computations - the process of building models of other minds and their dynamic interactions & relationships to predict and navigate our ambiguous social worlds.

At the SciMinds research studio our focus is unpacking this complexity by developing a naturalistic science of how minds interact. We love taking an interdisciplinary approach by drawing inspiration from multiple areas of science, art, & engineering such as: social psychology & behavioral economics; computational cognitive neuroscience; computer-science & artificial intelligence; user-experience & design; and human-computer-interactions.

Check out some of our published and in-progress academic papers here and some of the tools we’re building here. If you’re interested in working together feel free to check out our open positions here.