Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Attention, Cognitive Control, Human-AI Interaction. https://hanzhang.cv/https://bsky.app/profile/hanzhang.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hanzhang.bsky.social/post/3mzenxfou722dVery cool [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Nov 2026 01:14 +0000at://did:plc:vx7o7akjv75cltacwfd2eql6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzenxfou722dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hanzhang.bsky.social/post/3my5qcmnrws2ghttps://reidjohnson.github.io/nn-field-guide/ seems like a helpful resource!18 Oct 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:vx7o7akjv75cltacwfd2eql6/app.bsky.feed.post/3my5qcmnrws2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/hanzhang.bsky.social/post/3mxyv7rayvc2dOur recent work shows that age differences in response-conflict tasks are mostly due to slower processing speed, rather than anything specific to cognitive control. Check it out ⬇️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Oct 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:vx7o7akjv75cltacwfd2eql6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxyv7rayvc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hanzhang.bsky.social/post/3mwln75gvzk2rHow can principles of human cognition be applied in artificial systems? Here, we present one such example: inspired by the idea of a "priority map" in visual attention, we built a "priority field" within an artificial agent. The results are quite interesting. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.30704 https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.3070428 Sep 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:vx7o7akjv75cltacwfd2eql6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwln75gvzk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hanzhang.bsky.social/post/3mv3kgyf3y22rNew preprint: Can large vision-language models show human-like goal-directed attention, without ever being trained on eye movements? I tested two off-the-shelf VLMs on 4,887 natural scenes under search vs. free-viewing goals. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.05517 https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.0551709 Sep 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:vx7o7akjv75cltacwfd2eql6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3kgyf3y22r