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Mr Jascha Achterberg

University Position
PhD student

Interests

As a part of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit I am studying the neuronal dynamics of complex problem solving and computations underlying general intelligence in brains and machines. I am especially interested in rapid One-Shot learning and compositional problem solving to understand how we can flexibly construct attentional episodes to decompose problems into easier subparts and find generalisable solutions in changing environment. I investigate those mechanisms using electrophysiological / spike data, neural networks, and mathematical process models. My work is supervised by John Duncan (Cambridge) and Matt Botvinick (Google DeepMind) and funded by a Gates Scholarship. Before I was a scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

Key Publications

Publications

Fluid intelligence and naturalistic task impairments after focal brain lesions.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.09.020
Journal: Cortex
E-pub date: 1 Jan 2022
Authors: V Smith, C Pinasco, J Achterberg, DJ Mitchell, T Das, M Roca, J Duncan

Fluid intelligence and naturalistic task impairments after focal brain lesions

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.12.443802
Journal:
E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
Authors: V Smith, C Pinasco, J Achterberg, DJ Mitchell, T Das, M Roca, J Duncan