Hans Kirschner
@hanskirschner.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist interested in learning dynamics and cognitive control.
https://hanskirschner.github.io
https://hanskirschner.github.io
Happy to be involved in a research topic accompanying a conference that is dear to my heart β the International Conference on Motivational and Cognitive Control (MCC)! Check out the conference and Frontiers research topic here:
π www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
π www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
π www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
π www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Happy to be involved in a research topic accompanying a conference that is dear to my heart β the International Conference on Motivational and Cognitive Control (MCC)! Check out the conference and Frontiers research topic here:
π www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
π www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
π www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
π www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Reposted by Hans Kirschner
π¨Friends, weβre happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! π
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
π¨Friends, weβre happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! π
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif
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Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social π§
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control
Human motivation is fundamentally shaped by one's expectations of the reward they could earn for good performance or the punishment they would avoid for poor performance. However, the extent to which ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social π§
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is excellent news - congrats @ondrejzika.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is excellent news - congrats @ondrejzika.bsky.social
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π¨ I am over the moon π to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab π«
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below π ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon π
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below π ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon π
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
π¨ I am over the moon π to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab π«
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below π ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon π
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below π ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon π
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I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!Β
The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.
I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.
I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!Β
The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.
I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.
I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
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π¨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
π¨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
π₯³ Proud to share: @juliaknappe.bsky.socialβs masterβs thesis is now published. Her meta-analysis shows the P300 can help detect deception. Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Decoding deception with the P300: A meta-analysis of the Concealed Information Test
The Concealed Information Test (CIT) is frequently used to determine the presence of crime-related information in a suspect's memory. In this paper, wβ¦
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August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
π₯³ Proud to share: @juliaknappe.bsky.socialβs masterβs thesis is now published. Her meta-analysis shows the P300 can help detect deception. Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
π£ Final version of our @elife.bsky.social article is now online! We show that in individuals with moderately low baseline performance, methamphetamine reduces the tendency to misinterpret high outcome noise. π₯³
elifesciences.org/articles/101...
elifesciences.org/articles/101...
Methamphetamine-induced adaptation of learning rate dynamics depend on baseline performance
In individuals with moderately low baseline performance, methamphetamine reduces the tendency to misinterpret high outcome noise.
elifesciences.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
π£ Final version of our @elife.bsky.social article is now online! We show that in individuals with moderately low baseline performance, methamphetamine reduces the tendency to misinterpret high outcome noise. π₯³
elifesciences.org/articles/101...
elifesciences.org/articles/101...
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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience"
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology
Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...
www.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience"
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.
#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
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one of the most intriguing projects i've been involved in: automated scientific discovery in an area (human/animal RL) I've been working on forever. can an LLM do the job of my grad students? if it is backed up by super smart scientists incl @pcastr.bsky.social @neurokim.bsky.social & kevin miller
Can LLMs be used to discover interpretable models of human and animal behavior?π€
Turns out: yes!
Thrilled to share our latest preprint where we used FunSearch to automatically discover symbolic cognitive models of behavior.
1/12
Turns out: yes!
Thrilled to share our latest preprint where we used FunSearch to automatically discover symbolic cognitive models of behavior.
1/12
February 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
one of the most intriguing projects i've been involved in: automated scientific discovery in an area (human/animal RL) I've been working on forever. can an LLM do the job of my grad students? if it is backed up by super smart scientists incl @pcastr.bsky.social @neurokim.bsky.social & kevin miller
Excited to see this work by brilliant @alexweuthen.bsky.social published at @commspsychol.bsky.social - first of a series of cool stuff arising from his phd project - stay tuned :)
Learning an association does not always succeed on the first attempt. What are the brain mechanisms underlying adaptations in memory formation on following learning attempts?
We addressed this question by quantifying single-trial fMRI stimulus processing evidence: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
We addressed this question by quantifying single-trial fMRI stimulus processing evidence: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Error-driven upregulation of memory representations - Communications Psychology
Using single-trial analysis in fMRI, this study shows that activity in brain areas associated with error monitoring and cognitive control differentiates between items that are later remembered correct...
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Excited to see this work by brilliant @alexweuthen.bsky.social published at @commspsychol.bsky.social - first of a series of cool stuff arising from his phd project - stay tuned :)
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With single-trial analysis, this fMRI study shows that activity in brain areas associated with error monitoring & cognitive control differentiates between items remembered correctly vs those where mistakes persist.
@alexweuthen.bsky.social @hanskirschner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@alexweuthen.bsky.social @hanskirschner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Error-driven upregulation of memory representations - Communications Psychology
Using single-trial analysis in fMRI, this study shows that activity in brain areas associated with error monitoring and cognitive control differentiates between items that are later remembered correct...
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
With single-trial analysis, this fMRI study shows that activity in brain areas associated with error monitoring & cognitive control differentiates between items remembered correctly vs those where mistakes persist.
@alexweuthen.bsky.social @hanskirschner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@alexweuthen.bsky.social @hanskirschner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! π§ͺ π§ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
www.science.org
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! π§ͺ π§ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
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π€ Meet Our Incredible Speakers! π§
Weβre thrilled to announce the invited speakers for RLDM 2025:
β¨ Iain Couzin
β¨ Andreas Krause
β¨ Alison Adcock
... and many more (see pictures)!
π Donβt miss their insights on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
ποΈ Register now: rldm.org/call-for-abs...
Weβre thrilled to announce the invited speakers for RLDM 2025:
β¨ Iain Couzin
β¨ Andreas Krause
β¨ Alison Adcock
... and many more (see pictures)!
π Donβt miss their insights on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
ποΈ Register now: rldm.org/call-for-abs...
November 20, 2024 at 10:24 AM
π€ Meet Our Incredible Speakers! π§
Weβre thrilled to announce the invited speakers for RLDM 2025:
β¨ Iain Couzin
β¨ Andreas Krause
β¨ Alison Adcock
... and many more (see pictures)!
π Donβt miss their insights on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
ποΈ Register now: rldm.org/call-for-abs...
Weβre thrilled to announce the invited speakers for RLDM 2025:
β¨ Iain Couzin
β¨ Andreas Krause
β¨ Alison Adcock
... and many more (see pictures)!
π Donβt miss their insights on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
ποΈ Register now: rldm.org/call-for-abs...
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Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful TΓΌbingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.
Computational Psychiatry Conference
University of Minnesota (July 16-18, 2024)
cpconf.org
November 13, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful TΓΌbingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.
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Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
March 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience