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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

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.06.652442
Journal:
E-pub date: 10 May 2025
Authors: V Mione, J Achterberg, M Kusunoki, MJ Buckley, J Duncan

Building artificial neural circuits for domain-general cognition: a primer on brain-inspired systems-level architecture

DOI: http://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2303.13651
Journal:
E-pub date: 21 Mar 2023
Authors: J Achterberg, D Akarca, M Assem, M Heimbach, DE Astle, 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: 14 May 2021
Authors: V Smith, C Pinasco, J Achterberg, DJ Mitchell, T Das, M Roca, J Duncan