gino battistello
@gino-battistello.bsky.social
PhD Student at the Paris Brain Institute | Creativity, Decision, Affects & Computational modelling
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Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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In this "Big picture" debate, @nicolecrust.bsky.social explores the controversy around the terminology used to characterize emotions—and invites 13 experts to chime in.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
www.thetransmitter.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In this "Big picture" debate, @nicolecrust.bsky.social explores the controversy around the terminology used to characterize emotions—and invites 13 experts to chime in.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
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🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1
September 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1
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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
September 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence
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What's the difference between emotions & moods?
While old (1994), this book dives into it.
Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one).
psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...
While old (1994), this book dives into it.
Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one).
psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...
August 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What's the difference between emotions & moods?
While old (1994), this book dives into it.
Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one).
psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...
While old (1994), this book dives into it.
Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one).
psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...
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𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy
This promises to be a must read
One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy
This promises to be a must read
One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
August 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy
This promises to be a must read
One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy
This promises to be a must read
One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since?
I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj
I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj
August 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since?
I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj
I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
Emergence of Brains
This review traces how ideas from statistical physics evolved into foundational models of neural computation, shaping modern AI and culminating in the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
journals.aps.org
August 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
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Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics
Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake,
scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal
cortex ramping activity ma...
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!
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Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind
@perothwell.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@perothwell.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind - Nature Neuroscience
Differences in neuroeconomic decision-making influence nucleus accumbens dopamine dynamics and reflect choice confidence during evaluation, as well as past and future value during re-evaluation, which...
www.nature.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind
@perothwell.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@perothwell.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.
How do humans navigate unfamiliar environments? @denislan.bsky.social @lhuntneuro.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social show that humans & deep meta-learning networks combine ‘vector-based’ & ‘transition-based’ strategies for flexible navigation in similar ways @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45uSwNm
August 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.
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Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Functional Connectivity Heterogeneity and Consequences for Clinical and Cognitive Prediction
AbstractFunctional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional co...
direct.mit.edu
July 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Nature Methods
DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning - Nature Methods
DeepPrep is a preprocessing pipeline for functional and structural MRI data from humans. Deep learning-based modules and an efficient workflow allow DeepPrep to handle large datasets.
www.nature.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Nature Methods
DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/ my first post for my first paper ✨ in this work with @sarah-moreno.bsky.social, @emmavolle.bsky.social, and @lopezpersem.bsky.social, we showed that subjective valuation acts as a domain-general process during creative thinking 💡
Using computational modeling of behavioral data, this study demonstrate that preferences involved in creative thinking are stable across three domains of creativity
@gino-battistello.bsky.social @sarah-moreno.bsky.social @emmavolle.bsky.social @lopezpersem.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@gino-battistello.bsky.social @sarah-moreno.bsky.social @emmavolle.bsky.social @lopezpersem.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Subjective valuation as a domain-general process in creative thinking - Communications Psychology
Using computational modeling of behavioral data, this study demonstrate that preferences involved in creative thinking are stable across three domains of creativity.
www.nature.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
1/ my first post for my first paper ✨ in this work with @sarah-moreno.bsky.social, @emmavolle.bsky.social, and @lopezpersem.bsky.social, we showed that subjective valuation acts as a domain-general process during creative thinking 💡
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Discrete sites in the human insular cortex showed changes of ac vity that predicted later memory recall, while others responded to emo onal content. Smula on of memoryrelated sites showed direct influence over the hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Direct interactions between the human insula and hippocampus during memory encoding - Nature Neuroscience
The hippocampus and insula communicate when processing emotional memories. Discrete sites in the human insular cortex showed changes that predicted later memory recall, while others responded to emoti...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Discrete sites in the human insular cortex showed changes of ac vity that predicted later memory recall, while others responded to emo onal content. Smula on of memoryrelated sites showed direct influence over the hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What is emergence, after all? arxiv.org/abs/2507.04951
What is emergence, after all?
The term emergence is increasingly used across scientific disciplines to describe phenomena that arise from interactions among a system's components but cannot be readily inferred by examining those c...
arxiv.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
What is emergence, after all? arxiv.org/abs/2507.04951
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Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Attractors are usually not mechanisms
The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
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🚨 New paper in European Journal of Neuroscience:
Meta-Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... (1/2)
Meta-Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... (1/2)
Meta‐Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex
We conducted a coordinate-based meta-analysis (N = 23 studies) where we found activation in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, and anterior cingulate cortex during exploration ver...
doi.org
July 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 New paper in European Journal of Neuroscience:
Meta-Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... (1/2)
Meta-Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... (1/2)
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This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature
Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Wanwan Xu, Yize Zhao, et al:
Supervised brain node and network construction under voxel-level functional imaging
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Supervised brain node and network construction under voxel-level functional imaging
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Wanwan Xu, Yize Zhao, et al:
Supervised brain node and network construction under voxel-level functional imaging
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Supervised brain node and network construction under voxel-level functional imaging
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Toute la semaine, je fais une série spéciale sur l'expérimentation animale. Premier épisode ce matin, les règles. Qu'est-ce que la règle des 3R ? Comment sont autorisés les projets de recherche impliquant des animaux ? Quel est le rôle des comités d'éthique ?
Avec Pierre Mormede 🥼
Avec Pierre Mormede 🥼
Quelles sont les règles en France ? : épisode 1/5 du podcast Comment se passer de l'expérimentation animale ?
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June 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Toute la semaine, je fais une série spéciale sur l'expérimentation animale. Premier épisode ce matin, les règles. Qu'est-ce que la règle des 3R ? Comment sont autorisés les projets de recherche impliquant des animaux ? Quel est le rôle des comités d'éthique ?
Avec Pierre Mormede 🥼
Avec Pierre Mormede 🥼
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Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415...
What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)?
led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️
What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)?
led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️
June 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415...
What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)?
led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️
What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)?
led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️
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A neuroimaging tool, TACOS, was developed to transform network-based statistics across brain structural and functional networks from different atlases. Using TACOS, connectomic findings could be easily combined or compared without handling raw data
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Harmonizing network-based statistics across different atlases in brain connectome analysis - Communications Biology
A neuroimaging tool, TACOS, was developed to transform network-based statistics across brain structural and functional networks from different atlases. Using TACOS, connectomic findings could be easil...
www.nature.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A neuroimaging tool, TACOS, was developed to transform network-based statistics across brain structural and functional networks from different atlases. Using TACOS, connectomic findings could be easily combined or compared without handling raw data
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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This was hard work, but ultimately there is support in the literature that engagement of different RL processes by serotonergic and dopaminergic/noradrenergic pharmacological interventions may be a promising route to follow. The @relmed.bsky.social study will do just that.
🚨 New paper out in JAMAPsych:
🦣 project led by the brilliant @anahitm.bsky.social & @docqhuys.bsky.social ’ group.
Our meta-analysis found that #dopamine & #serotonin have distinct effects on reinforcement learning.
A step toward biomarker guided treatment?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🦣 project led by the brilliant @anahitm.bsky.social & @docqhuys.bsky.social ’ group.
Our meta-analysis found that #dopamine & #serotonin have distinct effects on reinforcement learning.
A step toward biomarker guided treatment?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Dopamine and Serotonin in Reward and Punishment Processes in Humans
This systematic review and meta-analysis compares the association of dopamine and serotonin in reinforcement learning.
jamanetwork.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This was hard work, but ultimately there is support in the literature that engagement of different RL processes by serotonergic and dopaminergic/noradrenergic pharmacological interventions may be a promising route to follow. The @relmed.bsky.social study will do just that.