Huadong Xiong
Graduate Student, Cognition & Neural Systems Faculty Advisors: Robert Wilson & Arne EkstromHuadong Xiong
Graduate Student, Cognition & Neural Systems Faculty Advisors: Robert Wilson & Arne EkstromI am broadly interested in understanding the representations used by both biological and artificial agents to perform cognitive tasks. Most of my research time, I build phenomenological models to identify the hidden variables in behaviors, and build optimization-based neural network models to find normative neural solutions for cognitive functions.
Research Interests:
- How feedforward and recurrent connections contribute to encoding prior information in working memory.
- Exploration strategies across species.
- Trade-offs between complexity and effectiveness in the formation of task representations by biological agents.
- How to perform path integration without the use of a metric representation.
- To what extent does language contribute to intelligence?
Updated: 02/1/23
Degrees
- M.Ed.