Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠

Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall! 

The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.

I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

🥳 Proud to share: @juliaknappe.bsky.social’s master’s thesis is now published. Her meta-analysis shows the P300 can help detect deception. Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Final version of our @elife.bsky.social article is now online! We show that in individuals with moderately low baseline performance, methamphetamine reduces the tendency to misinterpret high outcome noise. 🥳

elifesciences.org/articles/101...

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience"

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.

#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

one of the most intriguing projects i've been involved in: automated scientific discovery in an area (human/animal RL) I've been working on forever. can an LLM do the job of my grad students? if it is backed up by super smart scientists incl @pcastr.bsky.social @neurokim.bsky.social & kevin miller

Excited to see this work by brilliant @alexweuthen.bsky.social published at @commspsychol.bsky.social - first of a series of cool stuff arising from his phd project - stay tuned :)

With single-trial analysis, this fMRI study shows that activity in brain areas associated with error monitoring & cognitive control differentiates between items remembered correctly vs those where mistakes persist.
@alexweuthen.bsky.social @hanskirschner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7

🤖 Meet Our Incredible Speakers! 🧠
We’re thrilled to announce the invited speakers for RLDM 2025:
✨ Iain Couzin
✨ Andreas Krause
✨ Alison Adcock
... and many more (see pictures)!
📅 Don’t miss their insights on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
🎟️ Register now: rldm.org/call-for-abs...

Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful Tübingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.

Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience