# Sam Gershman **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** Cognitive science / Computational neuroscience **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Sam Gershman is a computational cognitive scientist whose work examines learning, inference, representation, and the algorithms underlying human and animal behavior. ## Mechanism and significance His research is relevant to attempts to infer latent computational principles from behavior rather than merely catalog observable responses. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Reverse-Engineered Nervous System]] · [[Biological Neural Dynamics]] · [[Latent Behavioral Algorithm]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.