Alan Voodla
voalan.bsky.social
Alan Voodla
@voalan.bsky.social
PhD student @ University of Tartu & KU Leuven; interested in metacogntion & -science
A fresh preprint! osf.io/rcmq7

Reward Prediction Errors, Not Expectations or Outcomes, Drive Emotional Valence.

We find that when accounting for multiple levels of RPEs (e.g., trial- and block-level) and their temporal dynamics, only RPEs predict affect.
OSF
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May 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Reposted by Alan Voodla
Why does it feel good to be sure? In new work @voalan.bsky.social @andero.bsky.social and I bridge confidence and affect. In perceptual DM, we found a remarkably consistent association between both measures! ↓↓↓

link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
Metacognitive confidence and affect – two sides of the same coin?
Decision confidence is a prototypical metacognitive representation that is thought to approximate the probability that a decision is correct. The perception of being correct has also been associate...
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January 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM