Interpretability in Psychological Models

Sigert Ariens is a mathematical psychologist focused on the dynamic paradigm in psychological science. His main areas of research are model interpretation, study design, and misspecification. He has developed a framework and software tools to help researchers interpret dynamic model structures and align them with psychological hypotheses, and works on study designs which aim to maximize the amount of information about the dynamic parameters.

Markus Eronen is an associate professor at the University of Groningen (Department of Theoretical Philosophy), working on philosophy of science and the limits and possibilities of developing psychological theories and causal explanations.

Stephen José Hanson is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Brain Imaging Center (RUBIC). His research spans learning theory across humans, animals, and machines, including neural network learning algorithms, computational neuroimaging, and deep learning. He was General Chair of NeurIPS (1992) and a founding member of the McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Advisory Board.

Andrew Heathcote is a cognitive scientist whose work centres on evidence accumulation models of rapid decision-making. He is known for developing the Linear Ballistic Accumulator (LBA), a widely used model for understanding how people make choices across laboratory, occupational, and clinical settings. His research integrates mathematical modelling with cognitive science to investigate memory, skill acquisition, and decision control across the lifespan.

David Kellen is a cognitive psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University. His research focuses on recognition memory, judgment and decision making, and the development and evaluation of formal models in cognitive psychology. Much of this work centers on signal detection theory and probabilistic models of choice.

Peter Killeen studies choice, schedule-induced behavior, reinforcement schedules, interval timing, and delay and probability discounting, all under the microscope of mathematics. He has received the Poetry in Science Award, the APA Div. 25 Outstanding Researcher Award, the Banco de Santander Research Prize, and the F. J. McGuigan Lecture on Understanding the Human Mind. He was President of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, and the Association for Behavior Analysis.

Michel Regenwetter is a Professor of Psychology, Political Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois. He is an affiliate member of the Center for Social and Behavioral Science and of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at Illinois. After having double majored in Psychology and Mathematics at the University of Bonn (Germany), Regenwetter completed a PhD in Mathematical Behavioral Science at UC Irvine (USA). Regenwetter received the 1999 Young Investigator Award of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, co-received the 2012 Exeter Prize for Research in Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, and Behavioral Economics, and is an elected fellow of both the Association for Psychological Science and of the Psychonomic Society. He has co-authored an award-winning book as well as numerous journal articles spanning several scientific disciplines. Regenwetter's research revolves around modeling heterogeneity of behavior, especially in decision making, as well as meta-theory, especially scientific reasoning fallacies that plague behavioral research.

Francis Tuerlinckx is a psychometrician and professor of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences at KU Leuven in Belgium. His research deals with the mathematical modeling of various aspects of human behavior. More specifically, he works on item response theory, reaction time modeling, and dynamical systems data analysis.

Wenjia Joyce Zhao is an assistant professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick. Before joining Warwick, she received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at The Ohio State University. Her research studies the cognitive basis of decision making using behavioural experiments, process-tracing methods, and mathematical and computational models. Her work focuses on how decision makers integrate information over time, including through sequential sampling models, and how people search for information internally from memory or externally from information displays.