Working on:
- persistent experiences (behavioral, neural, modeling)
- narrative memory (modeling, methods).
Tell me more about:
- representations of the here, now and self
- narrative comprehension
- causality in narratives
- ’language’ to computationally describe human cognition
PhD Student at Johns Hopkins University in the Honey lab.
Former student assistant at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence doing Relation Extraction (NLP) and computer science undergrad at Freie Universität Berlin.
Publications
- preprint - Kressin Palacios, G., Ouyang, T., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2026). 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
- spotlight poster - extended abstract - Kressin Palacios, G., Li, X., Ouyang, T., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2026). Cognitive and Neural Origins of Persistent Experiences. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, New York, NY.
- poster - extended abstract - ★ Arekar, D., ★ Kressin Palacios, G., Li, X., & Chen, J (2026). Automated recall-to-story matching for memory research. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, New York, NY. ★ Equal contribution
- poster - Kressin Palacios, G., Ouyang, T., Li, X., Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2026). Cognitive and Neural Origins of Persistent Mental Content. Society for Cognitive Science, Rio de Jainero, Brazil.
- poster - Kressin Palacios, G., Arekar, D., Li, X., & Honey, C. J. (2026). Towards a model of narrative free recall. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia PA.
- poster - Kressin Palacios, G., Li, X., Lai, Yijun, Bellana, B., & Honey, C. J. (2025). Neural Origins of Persistent Mental Content. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego.
- extended abstract - Kressin Palacios, G., Arekar, D., & Honey, CJ (2025). Situational Dimensions that drive Event Boundaries. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands. - I fell sick and couldn’t present.
- poster - extended abstract - 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
- How do experiences persist in mind? Slowly-changing, gated context representations!
- Subsymbolic theories of computation and cognition.
- Models of memory.
- Narrative immersion.
- Narrative causality.
- Psychological momentum.
- Event cognition, situation models - the event indexing model.
- The Zeigarnik effect.
Too many interesting things in this world.
Fun ‘facts’
- People tell me I look shorter on zoom than in real life (2026: it still happens).
- I was an uncle (second degree) before I was born.
- 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.
- I play the piano, and I like the drama.
- 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.