PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi reddit, my name is Hector and my research shows computation is a sophisticated method for studying human cognition and behavior, also that behavioral complexity peaks at age 25 – Ask Me Anything!

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Hi reddit,

My name is Hector Zenil and I am the head of the Algorithmic Nature Group, the group responsible for the Online Algorithmic Complexity Calculator, and the co-leader of the Information Dynamics Lab at the Karolinska Institute (the institution that awards the Nobel Prize together with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). I was previously based at the University of Oxford (Senior Researcher and Faculty Member). My research focuses on connecting the world—particularly molecular biology and cognition—to computation in a fundamental way.

We recently published a paper titled Human behavioral complexity peaks at age 25 in PLOS Computational Biology. The study shows how measures related to computation can better explain sophisticated cognitive abilities of the human mind, in particular related to the way in which people can make random choices. We found that at 25 years old people can best outsmart computer programs at generating randomness, something that had been difficult to quantify before with measures based on traditional statistics that did not take the algorithmic nature of the human mind. An animated video showing some of these results has been placed online here.

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