Carsten Murawski
@carstenmurawski.bsky.social
Decision scientist | Professor at University of Melbourne | Director of Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets
Interested in how properties of neurocognitive computations and computational constraints affect decision-making https://unimelb.edu.au/cbmm
Interested in how properties of neurocognitive computations and computational constraints affect decision-making https://unimelb.edu.au/cbmm
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I am pleased to announce that our new book on "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications" is now published by @springernature.com ! A collection of 17 chapters over 325 pages on #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Philosophy #Psychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Decision Making
This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I am pleased to announce that our new book on "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications" is now published by @springernature.com ! A collection of 17 chapters over 325 pages on #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Philosophy #Psychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🔈 Our edited volume "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications", co-edited with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social and Bert Heinrichs, is out.
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#DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy
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#DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🔈 Our edited volume "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications", co-edited with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social and Bert Heinrichs, is out.
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#DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy
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#DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy
🧠💬 Do large language models really represent meaning like the human brain?
Our new fMRI study tested how transformers compare to brain representations of sentence meaning — and found that structure matters.
📄 Read more: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Our new fMRI study tested how transformers compare to brain representations of sentence meaning — and found that structure matters.
📄 Read more: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
🧠💬 Do large language models really represent meaning like the human brain?
Our new fMRI study tested how transformers compare to brain representations of sentence meaning — and found that structure matters.
📄 Read more: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Our new fMRI study tested how transformers compare to brain representations of sentence meaning — and found that structure matters.
📄 Read more: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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"Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications". Our new edited book due to appear in @springernature.com later this year! @carstenmurawski.bsky.social #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Decision Making
This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.
link.springer.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications". Our new edited book due to appear in @springernature.com later this year! @carstenmurawski.bsky.social #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Franziska Knolle.
💡Topic: From Risk to Disorder: Decision-Making Dysfunctions in Psychosis
📅 Date: Thursday, 3 July 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
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💡Topic: From Risk to Disorder: Decision-Making Dysfunctions in Psychosis
📅 Date: Thursday, 3 July 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
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Seminar announcement: Franziska Knolle (Munich), 3 July 2025
Seminar announcement: Franziska Knolle (Munich), 3 July 2025
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July 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Franziska Knolle.
💡Topic: From Risk to Disorder: Decision-Making Dysfunctions in Psychosis
📅 Date: Thursday, 3 July 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
💡Topic: From Risk to Disorder: Decision-Making Dysfunctions in Psychosis
📅 Date: Thursday, 3 July 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
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Why do women experience such significant disadvantages within the financial system, and what can we do about it?
And why isn't academic finance interested in these questions? New research with @carstenmurawski.bsky.social and Nitin Yadav.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/intere...
And why isn't academic finance interested in these questions? New research with @carstenmurawski.bsky.social and Nitin Yadav.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/intere...
No Interest? The marginalization of women in academic finance
Why do women experience such significant disadvantages within the financial system and across a broad suite of financial outcomes - from the leadership of major institutions to disposable income? And ...
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June 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Why do women experience such significant disadvantages within the financial system, and what can we do about it?
And why isn't academic finance interested in these questions? New research with @carstenmurawski.bsky.social and Nitin Yadav.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/intere...
And why isn't academic finance interested in these questions? New research with @carstenmurawski.bsky.social and Nitin Yadav.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/intere...
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Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain?
@andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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June 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain?
@andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Nura Sidarus.
💡Topic: Investigating negative self-attribution and self-evaluation biases in depression
📅 Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
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💡Topic: Investigating negative self-attribution and self-evaluation biases in depression
📅 Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
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Seminar announcement: Nura Sidarus (London), 22 May 2025
Seminar announcement: Nura Sidarus (London), 22 May 2025
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May 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Nura Sidarus.
💡Topic: Investigating negative self-attribution and self-evaluation biases in depression
📅 Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/mo8p
💡Topic: Investigating negative self-attribution and self-evaluation biases in depression
📅 Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/mo8p
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Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow:
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond
Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.
elifesciences.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow:
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
TODAY!
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Constantin Rothkopf.
💡Topic: Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/h2jp
💡Topic: Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
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April 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
TODAY!
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Constantin Rothkopf.
💡Topic: Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/h2jp
💡Topic: Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/h2jp
April 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Constantin Rothkopf.
💡Topic: Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/h2jp
💡Topic: Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/h2jp
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Professor Andrea Reiter.
💡Topic: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood
📅 Date: 27 March 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 7pm AEDT
🔗 More information: www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
💡Topic: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood
📅 Date: 27 March 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 7pm AEDT
🔗 More information: www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
Seminar announcement: Andrea Reiter (Germany), 27 March 2025
Seminar announcement: Andrea Reiter (Germany), 27 March 2025
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March 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Professor Andrea Reiter.
💡Topic: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood
📅 Date: 27 March 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 7pm AEDT
🔗 More information: www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
💡Topic: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood
📅 Date: 27 March 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 7pm AEDT
🔗 More information: www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
Seminar announcement: Andrea Reiter (Germany), 27 March 2025
Seminar announcement: Andrea Reiter (Germany), 27 March 2025
www.unimelb.edu.au
March 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Professor Andrea Reiter.
💡Topic: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood
📅 Date: 27 March 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 7pm AEDT
🔗 More information: www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
💡Topic: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood
📅 Date: 27 March 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 7pm AEDT
🔗 More information: www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
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My latest book, Patriarchy Inc., is out now in the UK, published by @atlanticbooks.bsky.social and distributed by @allenandunwin.bsky.social in Australia.
More information at www.cordelia-fine.com/patriarchy-i...
More information at www.cordelia-fine.com/patriarchy-i...
March 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
My latest book, Patriarchy Inc., is out now in the UK, published by @atlanticbooks.bsky.social and distributed by @allenandunwin.bsky.social in Australia.
More information at www.cordelia-fine.com/patriarchy-i...
More information at www.cordelia-fine.com/patriarchy-i...
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Out now: our new paper entitled "The Relationship Between Schizotypal Personality Traits and Temporal Discounting: The Role of the Date/Delay Effect" in a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Neuroscience of Schizotypy! academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
The Relationship Between Schizotypal Personality Traits and Temporal Discounting: The Role of the Date/Delay Effect
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Many patients with psychiatric disorders show increased temporal discounting (TD), ie, they discount future rewards more
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March 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Out now: our new paper entitled "The Relationship Between Schizotypal Personality Traits and Temporal Discounting: The Role of the Date/Delay Effect" in a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Neuroscience of Schizotypy! academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
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Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
January 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
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There are some exciting talks coming up in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! Please DM if you would like to join. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social
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Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry
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January 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
There are some exciting talks coming up in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! Please DM if you would like to join. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social
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I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s...
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Human Thought Is Far Slower Than Your Internet Connection (Gift Article)
A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.
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December 26, 2024 at 1:49 PM
I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s...
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"It's a lot harder than taking even very demanding coures. What makes it difficult is that research is immersion in the unknown. We just don't know what we're doing. We can't be sure whether we're asking the right questions or doing the right experiment until we get the answer or the result."
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
"It's a lot harder than taking even very demanding coures. What makes it difficult is that research is immersion in the unknown. We just don't know what we're doing. We can't be sure whether we're asking the right questions or doing the right experiment until we get the answer or the result."
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I am pleased to announce the next talk in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! Please DM if you would like to join. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 11:57 AM
I am pleased to announce the next talk in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! Please DM if you would like to join. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
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Join us online for the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! DM for login details. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence #CompNeuroSky www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry
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November 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Join us online for the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! DM for login details. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence #CompNeuroSky www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
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“[A] model that fits empirical data sets may still fail as a psychological theory, for example, if the model implies properties of cognitive systems that are theoretically implausible or incoherent.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #decisionmaking #subsetchoice #intractable #theory #cogsci
Sources of complexity in subset choice
Subset choice denotes the task of choosing a subset of items from among a set of available items. Because the number of possible choice options in sub…
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November 18, 2024 at 3:31 AM
“[A] model that fits empirical data sets may still fail as a psychological theory, for example, if the model implies properties of cognitive systems that are theoretically implausible or incoherent.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #decisionmaking #subsetchoice #intractable #theory #cogsci