Gota Morishita
gotamorishita.bsky.social
Gota Morishita
@gotamorishita.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the CBMM, University of Melbourne.
social reinforcement learning, computational modeling, fMRI.

https://sites.google.com/view/gota-morishita
Reposted by Gota Morishita
Our new paper “Whom do we prefer to learn from in observational reinforcement learning?” is now published in PLOS Computational Biology.

Led by @gotamorishita.bsky.social, w/ Nitin Yadav and Shinsuke Suzuki.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Whom do we prefer to learn from in observational reinforcement learning?
Author summary In our daily lives, we often learn by watching others. For example, when starting a new job, we might watch an experienced colleague to learn effective strategies, or an inexperienced c...
journals.plos.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Reposted by Gota Morishita
🚨 New in Communications Psychology: we investigate the causal link between acute stress and higher-order decision-making.

Using a task with multiple levels of complexity, we find stress impairs decision quality—but not in the way you might think. 📜

📄 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Acute stress impairs decision-making at varying levels of decision complexity - Communications Psychology
This study finds that acute stress alone has a surprisingly limited effect on decision-making, irrespective of the decision’s complexity. However, on decisions with experienced time pressure, acute st...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM