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Ishita Dasgupta

Harvard University

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 3 Cancer Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 4 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Research Focus:cancer & tumor microenvironment· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:organoid / primary culture· 1

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Eric Schulz· 2 shared Samuel J. Gershman· 2 shared Abhinav BhushaniD· 1 shared Amir ZarrinpariD· 1 shared Arianna BreviiD· 1 shared Durga Prasad Rangineni· 1 shared E. Schulz· 1 shared Joshua B. TenenbaumiD· 1 shared

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Bile Salts and Bacterial Bile Salt Hydrolase Activity Differentially Influence Escherichia coli Colonization and FXR Signaling in Colorectal Cancer Organoids

Ishita Dasgupta, Arianna Brevi, Yixiao Ma, Durga Prasad Rangineni, Miriam Duran, Amir Zarrinpar, Abhinav Bhushan

Annals of Biomedical Engineering · Jun 15, 2026Peer-reviewedCancer Biology

Learning to act by integrating mental simulations and physical experiments

Ishita Dasgupta, Kevin A. Smith, Eric Schulz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman

The paper shows people balance mental simulations and physical experiments to learn action effects, adjusting effort based on trial characteristics.

bioRxiv · May 15, 2018 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

Remembrance of Inferences Past

Ishita Dasgupta, E. Schulz, N. D. Goodman, S. J. Gershman

The paper shows humans use amortized inference in probabilistic reasoning, reusing summary statistics from previous queries to save cognitive resources.

bioRxiv · May 12, 2017Animal Behavior & Cognition

Amortized Hypothesis Generation

Ishita Dasgupta, Eric Schulz, Noah D. Goodman, Samuel J. Gershman

The paper demonstrates that people use amortized inference strategies when answering related queries, caching summary statistics rather than raw samples.

bioRxiv · May 12, 2017 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition