UX Research @Square. Formerly @UCLA, @BinghamtonU, & @NSF fellow.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2013
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Benjamin Seitz retweeted
it's up! A VBW exclusive report - @yorl joins @peez and @tamler to talk about his experience applying to UCLA only to have his candidacy pulled at the last minute because of remarks made on his podcast(!) about diversity statements. Plus more fraud verybadwizards.com/episode/e…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Very excited to have one of our dopamine projects out in @CurrentBiology this week! Led by @benjamin_seitz, with @ivybhoang, Lauren DiFazio, and @AaronBlaisdell. We show dopamine neurons are necessary for the excitatory and inhibitory components of backward conditioning!
Excited to share our lab's first preprint! Turning TDRL on it's head, @benjamin_seitz found VTA DA neurons are necessary for backward conditioning (where a reward precedes a cue). A thread 🧵 : biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
So excited to see this manuscript become publicly available! Read the tweet thread below for more details.
Excited to share this work: "The perils of small stimulus sets: How stimulus selection affects generalizability" now on @PsyArXiv with @AaronBlaisdell @JosieEquita @DiSH_Lab. psyarxiv.com/yvfdn. Here we provide a powerful case study on how stimuli can influence outcomes
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
This research took 4 years & was the result of hard work by all co-authors: @kbrenmc @B1rdz_Lady @zjohnsonulrich @Carol_Rowney @benjamin_seitz @AaronBlaisdell @dominik_deffner @WascherClaudia @luisambergeron and Melissa Folsom @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @ucsantabarbara @UCLA @AngliaRuskin
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Researchers are investigating the cognitive abilities that allow grackles, an urban bird species, to react to a rapidly changing environment. Their results are published in @PeerComJournal, #AnimBehavCogn and @PLOSONE. #TheGrackleProject @LoganCorina mpg.de/18243820/0210-evan-in…
ALT Female great-tailed grackle. © Corina Logan
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Excited to share our lab's first preprint! Turning TDRL on it's head, @benjamin_seitz found VTA DA neurons are necessary for backward conditioning (where a reward precedes a cue). A thread 🧵 : biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Our new publication in collaboration with @benjamin_seitz and @LoganCorina is now published! Do the more flexible individuals rely more on causal cognition? Observation versus intervention in causal inference in great-tailed grackles peercommunityjournal.org/art…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
New Research: Higher-Order Conditioning and Dopamine: Charting a Path Forward: Higher-order conditioning involves learning causal links between multiple events, which then allows one to make novel inferences. For example, observing a… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #neuroscience
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Second night @PavlovSociety after an awesome first day of meeting organized by superstar @TronsonLab. Enjoying the in person dinner feels with @KateWassum @MattLattal @ivybhoang @_sjmillard @benjamin_seitz 🙌
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Check out the star-studded lineup for this year’s annual meeting of the @PavlovSociety hosted by President Natalie Tronson (@TronsonLab) in Ann Arbor, MI. Registration is open at pavlovian2021.org!
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
New paper from my lab, with Benjamin Seitz and Professor Janet Tomiyama is now published! Congrats @benjamin_seitz for publishing your review from your dissertation!
Eating behavior as a new frontier in memory research sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Excited to have the lab’s first paper out today in current opinion in behavioral sciences! @ivybhoang and I discuss how the basolateral amygdala and lateral hypothalamus bias learning towards important events, leveraging insights from recent data. authors.elsevier.com/a/1d6Rz…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
The more flexible grackles ARE better @ inhibition, but only on go/no go, not detour. Passed poststudy review @PCI_Ecology! 1/
Preprint doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vpc3…
Post-study reviews doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology…
Prereg tinyurl.com/n37ec8sc
Pre-study reviews doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Calling all applicants for the Bucci Undergraduate Travel Award! In honor of Dave Bucci, this award will provide $1000 to support travel to the meeting for a presenting student. Students should complete the form here: forms.gle/SUp2RG2kgyQrYAM97
The deadline is 5/20/21, 11:59PM ET.
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Causal cognition in gt grackles? Excited to have #TheGrackleProject’s 2nd article go thru whole #preregistration-final ms process!
Article doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z4p6…
Post-study reviews doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology…
Pre-study reviews doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology…
Prereg github.com/corinalogan/grack…
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
1/2 A new #preprint #PeerReview & recommended by @PCI_Ecology: Blaisdell et al. Do the more flexible individuals rely more on causal cognition? Observation vs intervention in causal inference in great-tailed grackles @PsyArXiv doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z4p6… @AaronBlaisdell @LoganCorina
Benjamin Seitz retweeted
Did COVID-19 evolve to hijack our social behavior to transmit more effectively? That's what @JoeAlcockMD and I suggest in our new PNAS paper w/ @sapinker, @haselton, @paulbloomatyale, @BNHorowitzMD @profdavidbuss @MicheleJGelfand @benjamin_seitz @PNASNews pnas.org/content/117/45/2776…