Elliott Wimmer
@elliottwimmer.bsky.social
interested in how we learn and later use knowledge in decisions, and how those processes can go awry in psychiatric disorders. LMDlab @UCL, MRC fellow.
📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
August 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
…but in actual decision-making, they showed enhanced goal-directed performance:
Higher apathy-anhedonia scores were related to greater sensitivity to goal values – plus faster navigation to goals and higher earnings.
(n.b. this relationship was not found in other common tasks we also collected.)
Higher apathy-anhedonia scores were related to greater sensitivity to goal values – plus faster navigation to goals and higher earnings.
(n.b. this relationship was not found in other common tasks we also collected.)
August 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
…but in actual decision-making, they showed enhanced goal-directed performance:
Higher apathy-anhedonia scores were related to greater sensitivity to goal values – plus faster navigation to goals and higher earnings.
(n.b. this relationship was not found in other common tasks we also collected.)
Higher apathy-anhedonia scores were related to greater sensitivity to goal values – plus faster navigation to goals and higher earnings.
(n.b. this relationship was not found in other common tasks we also collected.)
We tested links to transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms.
The relationships with an 'Apathy–Anhedonia' factor were very interesting: people with higher scores reported lower expectations of goal success...
The relationships with an 'Apathy–Anhedonia' factor were very interesting: people with higher scores reported lower expectations of goal success...
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We tested links to transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms.
The relationships with an 'Apathy–Anhedonia' factor were very interesting: people with higher scores reported lower expectations of goal success...
The relationships with an 'Apathy–Anhedonia' factor were very interesting: people with higher scores reported lower expectations of goal success...
We designed a novel risky goal task: over two days, participants learned maze-like environments where each step carried a small risk of failure. As goals became more distant, risk compounded.
Participants then made choices between a certain reward vs. risky goals with variable distance & reward.
Participants then made choices between a certain reward vs. risky goals with variable distance & reward.
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We designed a novel risky goal task: over two days, participants learned maze-like environments where each step carried a small risk of failure. As goals became more distant, risk compounded.
Participants then made choices between a certain reward vs. risky goals with variable distance & reward.
Participants then made choices between a certain reward vs. risky goals with variable distance & reward.
! Job alert !
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
December 12, 2023 at 4:28 PM
! Job alert !
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
Our postdoc position at the UCL Learning Memory & Decision lab is open for applications! Please see the ad here: t.ly/gLGHu
The ad currently closes on January 2nd.
Experts in memory or decision-making and imaging (& behavior), please apply! See thread below. Please share!
Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry)
@ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre
@ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre
October 30, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry)
@ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre
@ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre