Victor Btesh

Taking others for granted: balancing presentational and personal goals in action selection

Victor Btesh, David A. Lagnado Tobias Gerstenberg,

CogSci, 2025 - Code

Less is more: Local focus in continuous time causal learning

Victor Btesh, Neil R. Bramley, Maarten Speekenbrink, David A. Lagnado

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2025 - Code - Demo

Variational inference for continuous time causal learning

Victor Btesh, Neil R. Bramley, J-Philipp Fränken, Maarten Speekenbrink, David A. Lagnado

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2023 - Code - Demo

Swipe and hold: composing interventions in continuous time causal learning

Victor Btesh, Neil R. Bramley, Maarten Speekenbrink, David A. Lagnado

CogSci, 2023 - Code - Demo

Redressing the emperor in causal clothing

Victor Btesh, Neil R. Bramley, David A. Lagnado

Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 2022

I am currently a PhD student in the department of Experiment Psychology at University College London. I work on active causal learning and computational social cognition.
I am particularly interested in understanding how people dynamically adjust their behaviour to satisfy goals over the beliefs others have of them. More broadly, I am fascinated by human interactions, how people build new relationships and seemingly idiosyncratic yet common social behaviours.
My work on active learning focus on how people learn and control dynamical systems. Often, tools and devices we encounter in daily change in continuous time, whether we decide to intervene or not, and have components which combine in a variety of functional relations. I am interested in understanding how people learn to control systems, like riding a bike or driving a car, which combine continuous and more symbolic relations between their components.