outreach

invited talks

• Talk at the UC Berkeley Gopnik Lab. Berkeley, USA, 2025.
• Talk at the Meta Brain & AI Team. Paris, France, 2025.
• Talk at the Tel Aviv University Shahar Lab. Tel Aviv, Israel, 2025.
• Talk at the TU Dresden Computational Machinery of Cognition Lab. Dresden, Germany, 2024.
• Talk at the Inria Mnemosyne Team. Bordeaux, France, 2024.
• Talk at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. London, UK, 2024.
• Talk at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Intrinsic Reward Lab. Paris, France, 2024.
• Talk at the Princeton University Goal-Directed Learning group. Princeton, USA, 2024.
• Talk at the Radboud University Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2023.
• Talk at the Emory University TReAD lab. Atlanta, USA, 2023.
• Talk at the Brown University Shenhav lab. Providence, USA, 2023.
• Talk at the École Normale Supérieure Human Reinforcement Learning lab. Paris, France, 2023.

conference presentations

• When 0 is good: instrumental learning with counterintuitive goals decreases working memory engagement.
  Pan, T-F., Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E.
  Talk at CogSci, 2025
• When 0 is good: instrumental learning with counterintuitive goals decreases working memory engagement.
  Pan, T-F., Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E.
  Poster at RLDM, 2025
• Reward function compression in human reinforcement learning.
  Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E.
  Spotlight and poster at RLDM, 2025
• Investigating the role of representation switching costs in goal persistence bias.
  Molinaro, G., Lidayan, A., & Collins, A. G. E.
  Poster at ICLR Re-Align Workshop, 2025
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• When LLMs play the telephone game: Cumulative changes and attractors in iterated cultural transmissions.
  Perez, J., Kovač, G., Léger, C., Colas, C., Molinaro, G., Derex, M., Oudeyer, P-Y., & Moulin-Frier, C.
  Poster at ICLR, 2025
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• Latent learning progress drives autonomous goal selection in human reinforcement learning.
  Molinaro, G., Colas, C., Oudeyer, P-Y., & Collins, A.G.E.
  Poster at NeurIPS, 2024
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• ACES: Generating diverse programming puzzles with autotelic generative models.
  Pourcel, J., Colas, C., Molinaro, G., Oudeyer, P-Y., & Teodorescu, L.
  Oral and poster at NeurIPS, 2024
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• What should I do now? Goal-centric outlooks on learning, exploration, and communication.
  Colas, C., Chu, J., Molinaro, G., & Hawkins, R.
  Symposium at CogSci, 2024
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• Latent learning progress guides hierarchical goal selection in humans.
  Molinaro, G., Colas, C., Oudeyer, P.Y., & Collins, A.G.E.
  Spotlight, poster, and best paper award at Neuromonster, 2024
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• Human hacks and bugs in the recruitment of reward systems for goal achievement.
  Molinaro, G., & Collins, A.G.E.
  Talk at CogSci, 2023
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• A reinforcement learning framework for information-seeking and information-avoidance.
  Cogliati Dezza, I., Molinaro, G., & Verguts, T.
  Talk at CogSci, 2023
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• Human hacks and bugs in the recruitment of reward systems for goal achievement.
  Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E.
  Poster at Curiosity, Creativity and Complexity Conference, 2023
• Humans imperfectly recruit reward systems as they learn to achieve novel goals.
  Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E.
  Poster at CCN, 2022
• Humans imperfectly recruit reward systems to learn to achieve novel, unique goals.
  Molinaro, G., & Collins, A. G. E.
  Poster at RLDM, 2022
• How children decide what they want to know.
  Molinaro, G., Cogliati Dezza, I., & Sharot, T.
  Poster at CNS, 2022
• The effects of social rewards on incidental episodic memory.
  Molinaro, G., & Russell, C.
  Talk at Neuromatch Conference, 2020
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press coverage

• Psychology study reveals goal-oriented rewards as key factors in decision-making.
  College of Letters & Science, 2023
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• New study reveals goal-oriented rewards as key factors in decision-making.
  Medical Xpress, 2023
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• Study reveals goal-oriented rewards as key factors in decision-making.
  Science Daily, 2023
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• UC Berkeley study finds goal-oriented rewards key in decision-making.
  Mirage News, 2023
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• UC Berkeley study reveals goal-oriented rewards as key factors in decision-making.
  Science Magazine, 2023
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• UC Berkeley study reveals goal-oriented rewards as key factors in decision-making.
  EurikAlert, 2023
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• Study reveals goal-oriented rewards as key factors in decision-making — ScienceDaily.
  Today Headline, 2023
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• ScienceDaily: goal-oriented rewards identified as crucial factors in decision-making.
  Verve Times, 2023
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