The long part was partly my “fault”, as sometimes revisions were made with a little assistant in my arms #naptrapped 👶🫠
So thank you to everyone involved 🥳 now let’s see what else the 🧠 is doing!
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Wanted to add that I had a very positive experience publishing with Imaging Neuroscience! We went through a long revision process but I always felt respected from the editors and the reviewers. 7/🧵

3. The salience network is involved in situational cue and choice attribute processing, supporting the dual model of salience! Again, separating the analysis types is important!
More findings and a lengthy discussion in the paper 🤗 6/🧵

2. Against our expectations, the domains do not share common activation nodes but they all involve medial prefrontal cortex, just in slightly different locations. This could also change if more studies were available that use task>control task contrasts. 5/🧵

In the meta-analysis we found that, for example, striatal activation is associated with higher possible outcome magnitude and higher uncertainty as a specific choice attribute but not as a situational cue! 4/🧵

1. A methodological point: in decision-making imaging, it matters what data is contrasted against each other. If it’s task>control task, we are looking at situational cue processing. If it’s choice>opposite choice, we are seeing processing of specific choice attributes. 3/🧵

We were interested if the domains share any common nodes of convergent activity. It turns out, it’s not so straightforward 🧐
Among the many very interesting findings, let’s talk about 3 points we made in the paper. 2/🧵

I find it useful to have an accoutability buddy. I don't have one right now but I used to meet with a fellow PhD student online once a week (Monday morning), talk about our tasks from last week and what worked, what got finished and what not, and plans for the next week.