Akram Bakkour
@akrambakkour.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. I study how we use memory to make better decisions.
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📢 PhD opportunity 📢
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Cooperative Behaviour at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Cooperative Behaviour at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
📢 PhD opportunity 📢
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
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🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
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I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
CATS Lab
Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University
nucatslab.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
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A new study in 'Nature Human Behavior' led by UChicago researchers combines fMRI data and natural language processing to understand how emotions lead to enhanced memory encoding, or "stickiness."
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
New Research Explores What Makes Emotional Memories Stick - DSI
By Sarah Steimer We can think of emotional experiences as sticky, explains the study’s senior author Yuan Chang (YC) Leong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and DSI Affiliate Resear...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A new study in 'Nature Human Behavior' led by UChicago researchers combines fMRI data and natural language processing to understand how emotions lead to enhanced memory encoding, or "stickiness."
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/3Lec2Gf
@jadynpark.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social
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I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
rouhanilab.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
Feeling major FOMO missing #CCN25. But I get to live vicariously through y’all who are there. So go check out our poster C57 that Euan is presenting Friday afternoon!
August 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Feeling major FOMO missing #CCN25. But I get to live vicariously through y’all who are there. So go check out our poster C57 that Euan is presenting Friday afternoon!
Very happy to see this work with Euan Prentis posted! If you’re going to CCN next week, go check out Euan’s poster on this work!
Overcoming distortion in multidimensional predictive representation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667463v1
July 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Very happy to see this work with Euan Prentis posted! If you’re going to CCN next week, go check out Euan’s poster on this work!
I’m just gonna leave this one here.. seems very apropo today
January 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I’m just gonna leave this one here.. seems very apropo today
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I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
December 2, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
At #SFN24? Come check out a super exciting nano I am co-chairing with @katieinsel.bsky.social, NANO07 today 10/5 at 1pm in room N228. Killer lineup: eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #SFN24
Neuroscience 2024
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October 5, 2024 at 3:49 PM
At #SFN24? Come check out a super exciting nano I am co-chairing with @katieinsel.bsky.social, NANO07 today 10/5 at 1pm in room N228. Killer lineup: eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #SFN24
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My lab is recruiting a full-time research specialist to begin summer/fall 2024. More information here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!
Research Specialist 2024 — Crockett Lab
www.crockettlab.org
February 4, 2024 at 3:55 AM
My lab is recruiting a full-time research specialist to begin summer/fall 2024. More information here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!
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Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with Tom Griffith's lab at Princeton.
Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253
Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253
February 4, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with Tom Griffith's lab at Princeton.
Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253
Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253
Really happy to see this paper posted! Thank you Ariel, Mike, and Daphna for keeping this super fun collaboration alive! The paper boast a super simple & elegant model for how subjective values fluctuate over time and captured by a very cool correlated-evidence DDM. Check it out!
Value construction through sequential sampling explains serial dependencies in decision making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.13.575363v1
Value construction through sequential sampling explains serial dependencies in decision making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.13.575363v1
Many decisions are expressed as a preference for one item over another. When these items are familia
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January 17, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Really happy to see this paper posted! Thank you Ariel, Mike, and Daphna for keeping this super fun collaboration alive! The paper boast a super simple & elegant model for how subjective values fluctuate over time and captured by a very cool correlated-evidence DDM. Check it out!
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New preprint with
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Daphna Shohamy!
We often have to make choices we've never made before. One way to do so is by knitting together relevant memories to form new relationships. When do people access their memories to construct preferences?
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Daphna Shohamy!
We often have to make choices we've never made before. One way to do so is by knitting together relevant memories to form new relationships. When do people access their memories to construct preferences?
Proactive and reactive construction of memory-based preferences
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2023 at 3:57 PM
New preprint with
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Daphna Shohamy!
We often have to make choices we've never made before. One way to do so is by knitting together relevant memories to form new relationships. When do people access their memories to construct preferences?
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Daphna Shohamy!
We often have to make choices we've never made before. One way to do so is by knitting together relevant memories to form new relationships. When do people access their memories to construct preferences?
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! Job alert !
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
December 12, 2023 at 4:28 PM
! Job alert !
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...
postdoc | Bakkour Memory and Decision Lab
bakkourlab.uchicago.edu
November 29, 2023 at 6:02 PM
For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...