Elliott Wimmer
@elliottwimmer.bsky.social
interested in how we learn and later use knowledge in decisions, and how those processes can go awry in psychiatric disorders. LMDlab @UCL, MRC fellow.
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Elliott Wimmer
@elliottwimmer.bsky.social
· Aug 20
www.biorxiv.org
🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
August 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
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📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
📢 We are hiring! 📢
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself.
Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social
#compneuro #neuroskyence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#compneuro #neuroskyence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS
Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events
in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...
www.pnas.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social
#compneuro #neuroskyence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#compneuro #neuroskyence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🧵 New paper! We studied depression symptoms and goal-directed decisions under uncertainty
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@shiyiliang.bsky.social, with @evanrussek.bsky.social & @robbrutledge.bsky.social
Surprisingly, we found that apathy–anhedonia was linked to enhanced goal-directed behavior. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc opening - highly recommended!
📣 I'm hiring 📣
Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social!
We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3)
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social!
We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3)
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Postdoctoral Researcher (2106) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
April 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Postdoc opening - highly recommended!
Epic dopamine / VTA neuron diversity paper
New preprint! We untangle glutamatergic and dopaminergic subpopulations in the ventral tegmental area. Long thread incoming, buckle up friends. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Untangling dopamine and glutamate in the ventral tegmental area
Ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neurons are of great interest for their central roles in motivation, learning, and psychiatric disorders. While hypotheses of VTA dopamine neuron function posit a...
www.biorxiv.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Epic dopamine / VTA neuron diversity paper
We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
OSF
osf.io
March 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social:
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
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We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
Excited to see this now out in the world!
We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/N
We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/N
Distorted learning from local metacognition supports transdiagnostic underconfidence - Nature Communications
Individuals with symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibit persistent underconfidence. Here, the authors show that distortions in learning from local metacognition can explain how underconfidence is ...
www.nature.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Our paper where we use computational modelling to study how some people continue to be underconfident in their abilities despite having intact performance out in Nature Communications
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
@naturecomms.bsky.social
with @smfleming.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social Ray Dolan
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
Neuron
Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating
This study demonstrates that hippocampal activity during remote recall is crucial for the reconsolidation of remote memory, also called systems reconsolidation, with new hippocampal engram cells recruited to enable memory updating. The findings reveal that adult neurogenesis supports this recruitment process and the role of mPFC projections to the hippocampus and amygdala in systems reconsolidation.
www.cell.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Neuron
Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
Exciting PhD opportunities in various labs in Hamburg, including ours. Feel free to contact me regarding details. www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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www.uni-hamburg.de
December 19, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Exciting PhD opportunities in various labs in Hamburg, including ours. Feel free to contact me regarding details. www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025)
Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit
Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit
November 15, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025)
Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit
Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit
To find folks from twitter you used to follow, the 'Sky Follower Bridge'. (Though a small percent of bluesky accounts were colonized by different people with the same name.)
1. Use the Sky Follower Bridge (browser extension) to find your Twitter follows here.
github.com/kawamataryo/...
2. Check a few relevant starter packs. Start here:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
3. Use the Bsky Network Analyzer, to expand your network.
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
github.com/kawamataryo/...
2. Check a few relevant starter packs. Start here:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
3. Use the Bsky Network Analyzer, to expand your network.
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
November 18, 2024 at 10:58 AM
To find folks from twitter you used to follow, the 'Sky Follower Bridge'. (Though a small percent of bluesky accounts were colonized by different people with the same name.)
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
OSF
osf.io
November 15, 2024 at 8:07 AM
I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
RLDM | The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
rldm.org
November 11, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC!
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings
Biases in information gathering are common in the general population and can reach pathological extremes in paralysing indecisiveness, as in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here, we adopt a new p...
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:55 PM
New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC!
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below...
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢
We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025.
We are now accepting symposium submissions!
We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025.
We are now accepting symposium submissions!
November 13, 2024 at 7:57 AM
📢 Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025: symposium abstract submission now open. 📢
We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025.
We are now accepting symposium submissions!
We are excited to announce that #cpconf2025 will take place in Tübingen, Germany, 14-16 July 2025.
We are now accepting symposium submissions!
Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information www.nature.com/articles/s41... in MEG! Congratulations to the apparently not-on-bluesky Evan Russek! and Rani Moran, RD, and Quentin Huys
Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information - Nature Communications
Individuals differ in how they weight probability and reward information when making risky choices. Here, the authors use magnetoencephalography to test whether such variation is related to how inform...
www.nature.com
May 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information www.nature.com/articles/s41... in MEG! Congratulations to the apparently not-on-bluesky Evan Russek! and Rani Moran, RD, and Quentin Huys
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material.
2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September.
Application deadline 1st March.
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September.
Application deadline 1st March.
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
February 3, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material.
2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September.
Application deadline 1st March.
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September.
Application deadline 1st March.
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
Postdoc in our lab! Last day to apply!
Please apply if interested - don’t worry about supporting docs or anything.
(Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)
Please apply if interested - don’t worry about supporting docs or anything.
(Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)
! 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!
January 2, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Postdoc in our lab! Last day to apply!
Please apply if interested - don’t worry about supporting docs or anything.
(Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)
Please apply if interested - don’t worry about supporting docs or anything.
(Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)
Reposted by Elliott Wimmer
We are excited to announce the 2024 Computational Psychiatry Conference! Back one year later by popular demand - this time in Minneapolis, Minnesota July 16-18. www.cpconf.org
November 29, 2023 at 5:54 PM
We are excited to announce the 2024 Computational Psychiatry Conference! Back one year later by popular demand - this time in Minneapolis, Minnesota July 16-18. www.cpconf.org
! 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!