Hello!

I'm a postdoc affiliated with NYU (with Marcelo Mattar) and Harvard (with Fiery Cushman). I did my PhD with Tom Griffiths at Princeton and I received my B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics from Cornell University under the advising of Shimon Edelman.

My research focuses on how human cognition is jointly shaped by the structure of the external world and our internal cognitive capacities. I develop computational models that make detailed predictions about the mental strategies people use across several domains, and test these models using fine-grained process data. My long-term goals are to (1) develop a domain-general computational and empirical framework for understanding the adaptive, algorithmic structure of cognition, (2) apply this framework to develop precise models of the internal and external factors that shape human cognitive processes, and (3) use those models to design interventions that improve people's lives.

My dissertation, Cognition as a sequential decision problem, applied metalevel Markov decision processes to develop optimal algorithmic models of attention, memory, and planning.

Here is a reasonably up-to-date CV.

Representative papers

Asterisks indicate shared lead/senior authorship.

F Callaway, B van Opheusden, S Gul, PK Krueger, P Das, F Lieder^*, TL Griffiths^* (2022). Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning. Nature Human Behavior.

F Callaway, A Rangel, TL Griffiths (2021). Fixation patterns in simple choice reflect optimal information sampling. PLoS Computational Biology.

F Callaway, TL Griffiths, KA Norman (2023). Optimal metacognitive control of memory recall. Psychological Review.

F Callaway^*, M Hardy^*, TL Griffiths (2023). Optimal nudging for cognitively bounded agents: A framework for modeling, predicting, and controlling the effects of choice architectures. Psychological Review.

F Callaway, YR Jain, B van Opheusden, P Das, G Iwama, S Gul, PM Krueger, F Becker, TL Griffiths^*, F Lieder^* (2022). Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve people's planning strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.