Alessandra N. C. Yu
alessandrancyu.bsky.social
Alessandra N. C. Yu
@alessandrancyu.bsky.social
Affect, agency, enaction • PhD Neuro @IcahnMountSinai Comp Psych 🧠 @SinaiCCP • MRes @UCL Cog Neuro • Alum @PomonaCollege Psych & Phil 🇵🇭🇮🇹 • #TCKinResearch
Hi! Amazing article. Not only is my personal PhD work on this (adjusting implicit sense of agency based on cause-effect using linguistic manipulation), but we take up this perspective in the Human Affectome! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Haven’t gotten around to transferring the thread to 🦋 but very soon!
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March 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Daniela Schiller, @ericjnestler.bsky.social, and their excellent TAs have been running an elective the last few years—and wrote a fantastic paper on it! As a student one of the rounds, I can attest to the efficacy of the training 🙌🏼 #EffectiveSciComm
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A guide to science communication training for doctoral students - Nature Neuroscience
Effective science communication is necessary for engaging the public in scientific discourse and ensuring equitable access to knowledge. Training doctoral students in science communication will instil...
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December 21, 2024 at 3:12 PM
It could be that valence and arousal may merely be (informative) features of otherwise more “interesting”content—that is, what we’re actually concerned with in that affective experience 🤷🏻‍♀️
The Human Affectome
Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective sciences have proliferated rather than converged due t…
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December 12, 2024 at 4:33 AM
@drmathildetahar.bsky.social has started a wonderful international discussion group on agency!
Relatedly, a conversation on intrinsic teleology might be helpful here…
Future considerations for the Human Affectome: Reply to commentaries
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December 12, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Currently, the DM option isn’t there!
November 24, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Would you like to stop by the Center for Computational Psychiatry to give a talk—if you’ll be staying in/near NYC? Would love have a fellow active inference/affect researcher over
November 24, 2024 at 2:35 AM