Mark Ho

@mark_ho_

computational cog sci • problem solving and social cognition • asst prof @NYUPsych • markkho.bsky.social

New York City, New York

codec-lab.github.io

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Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
May 20, 2022
1/ I'm excited to share our new paper, now in @Nature! Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… PDF: rdcu.be/cNVkp Summary 🧵: We present a new theory of problem simplification to answer an old question in cognitive science and AI: How do we represent problems when planning?
People construct simplified mental representations to plan
From nature.com
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Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Aug 26
@harootonian's paper on cognitive strategies in teaching is now out in Nature Human Behavior! 🎉🎉 Very excited about this line of work bc it combines efficient decision-making with theory of mind - check out Sev's thread 👇
Sev Harootonian
@harootonian
Aug 26
My main PhD paper is finally out in Nature Human Behaviour! The question: what cognitive strategies do people use when they teach, and can we nudge them toward a better one? Work with my PhD mentors @yael_niv, @mark_ho_ and @cocosci_lab. 1/5
Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Jun 17
How do human minds make sense of big, messy problems? 😵‍💫🌀 How do we distill complexity into something simple enough to solve? 🤔💡 We’ll be tackling these questions (and more!) at two workshops on task representations, abstractions, and construals #CogSci2026 #CCN2026 🧵
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Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Feb 12
just got my copy!
Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab
@cocosci_lab
Feb 9
New book The Laws of Thought is out tomorrow! Just as Algorithms to Live By introduced ideas from computer science through their applications in everyday life, the Laws of Thought introduces ideas from cognitive science and AI through the stories of the people who created them.
Mark Ho
@mark_ho_
Nov 13, 2025
🚀 Excited to share a new preprint, accepted as a spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! Humans are imperfect decision-makers, and autonomous systems should understand how we deviate from idealized rationality Our paper aims to address this! 👀🧠✨ arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951 a 🧵⤵️
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