Gabi Kressin Palacios

What are the algorithms of the mind?

  • Publications
  • Presentations
  • Interests
  • Fun 'facts'
  • Bluesky

  • PhD Student @Johns Hopkins University in the Honey lab.
  • Undergrad in Computer Science @Freie Universität Berlin.
  • Former student assistant at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence doing Relation Extraction (NLP).
  • Within and between Cognitive Psychology / Cognitive Science / Neuroscience.

Publications

  • preprint - Kressin Palacios, G., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2025). Origin and control of persistent mental content. PsyArXiv.
  • conference paper - Kressin Palacios*, G., Li*, Z., & Armeni, K. (2025). Executable science: Research software engineering practices for replicating neuroscience findings. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability, Vancouver, Canada.

Presentations

  • poster - Kressin Palacios, G., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2024). Origin and control of persistent mental content. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Boston, MA.
  • presentation - Kressin Palacios, G., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2024). Origin and Control of Persistent Mental Content. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia PA.
  • poster - Kressin Palacios, G., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2023). Quantifying persistent mental content. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
  • poster - Kressin Palacios, G., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2023). How are lingering thoughts modulated by time and personal concerns? Curiosity, Creativity and Complexity Conference, New York, NY.

Interests

  • Why do experiences persist in mind? Deep context!
  • Subsymbolic theories of computation.
  • Models of memory.
  • Narrative immersion.
  • Psychological momentum.
  • Event cognition, situation models - the event indexing model.
  • The Zeigarnik effect.

Too much interesting stuff in this world.


Fun ‘facts’

  • People tell me I look shorter on zoom than in real life.
  • I was an uncle (second degree) before I was born.
  • If you substitute context in ourpaper with state it sounds pretty scary. (link needed)
  • Because I grew up bilingually, I sometimes confuse numbers in the range of 60-99: in German you say the last position first; in Spanish it is the other way around. (For some reason I only seem to make this error for numbers >60).
  • I seem to be bad at deciphering what people say, even though my hearing itself is good (according to some doctor in Berlin…).
  • Bananas rule (healthy, yummy, easy to eat, cheap, what do you want more from life?).
  • The best hot chocolate place in Berlin.
  • Yes, I still like the US, although it sometimes feels scary.
  • Surprisingly inspirational.
  • Put on 80/90/00s music and I dance, dance, dance.
  • My metabolism does not abide by the laws of the universe, if I eat a piece of cake I gain double its weight the next day.
  • Luckily, I lose weight as fast as I gain it.
  • Yes, my phenotype is the analog of mixing coffee with milk.
  • I am bad with remembering names AND faces, but I am not prosopagnosic.

Good luck on your adventures.

© 2025, Gabriel Kressin Palacios
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