🚨 Paper alert 👇
Does war trauma leave a lasting imprint on civilians’ brains🧠?

We analyzed ~40k MRIs in the #UKBiobank, including ~6k of people born during WWII. Those exposed to close bombings in-utero show differences in brain structure, even decades later.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally, using machine learning, we've decoded adaptive mentalization with remarkable accuracy (r ~ .8), and thus are able to predict out-of-sample one's belief update with high precision. 🔎🧠 (4/5)

We term this behavior adaptive #mentalization , which is predominantly encoded within the social brain network. This underscores the pivotal role of areas such as the TPJ in updating beliefs about others' strategies. #neuroeconomics (3/5)

In repeated ✊🖐️✌️-like games, players don't rigidly stick to a single level of thinking (e.g., 'I think that you think' etc.), but dynamically adjust to their opponent's level.
Our new Bayesian model CHASE captures and characterizes this adaptive behavior! #gametheory
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🤔How do humans anticipate an opponent's moves in strategic games?

Excited to share our latest work on #mentalization in strategic games.
After years of work, we've empirically validated our new model, behaviorally (N~500) and neurally (N~100) 🧠 a 🧵 (1/5)