🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

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And that's a wrap! Thanks to all the speakers, moderator and audience participation for such a lively discussion -

@nitalon.bsky.social @kartikchandra.bsky.social @carocharp.bsky.social

Participants first played a Cyberball game 🏐 and then immediately reported their beliefs about their partner and state paranoia 📝

Following this participants played a social value learning game, The Intentions Game, to understand whether social exclusion impacted future interactions

Last but absolutely not least we have Professor Josh Tenenbaum closing out the workshop, talking on reverse engineering human minds to improve synthetic systems

Third we have an embodied computer science perspective on Theory of Mind from Prof Sheila McIlraith. Giving robots an epistemic planner can allow for representations and appropriate responses to another’s beliefs and intentions

Next up we have Dr Herman de Weerd using agent based modelling to understand the role of recursive cognition on multi agent interaction @unigroningen.bsky.social

Today is the day! Our workshop (sites.google.com/view/theory-...) on Theory of Mind in AI kicks off in Philadelphia, and we are lucky enough to have @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social opening the day with a comprehensive overview of how we (un)successfully measure Theory of Mind

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Thanks to Nora Raschle and the Jacob’s Centre for being amazing hosts over the last week for our FENS-Kavli exchange! It was exciting to blend approaches to think about how to best test neurocomputational mechanisms of social cognition in childhood and adolescence 👀 🧒

We also show that irrespective of diagnosis, more reported trauma, paranoia, and trait mentalising skills reduce social contagion effects

This affects learning, whereby those with a diagnosis of BPD are quicker to settle on a belief about their partner and show more rigidity in this belief along both qualities

Despite both groups showing equal accuracy in predicting their partner in phase 2, they use very different strategies... those w/ a diag. of BPD show disintegrated self-other representations, whereas those w/o a diagnosis use a full mixing process to generalise information 🧪

Simulations show that participants can be defined by how much they care about the absolute reward to the self (alpha) and how much they care about inequality (beta) - self and other uncertainty about each quality drive both learning and social contagion effects

To navigate this interaction, ppts. might use a full mixing process to initially predict others based on their preferences, and then use others to inform their preferences (Model 1), they may use none of these constraints (Model 4), or only one of these (Model 2 & 3) 🧪

We used a short 3-phase dynamic social paradigm to test how matched groups w/ and w/o a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder interact and learn about a partner's social preferences. We used a dynamic architecture to ensure partner similarity was ~50%

Great to be at the Wellcome today for their mental health and neuroscience symposium - starting off with a great overview from prof Jeremy Hall on the intersection of neural techniques to test the biological basis of psychiatric disorder

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We discuss the state-of-the-art in how this framework accommodates dysfunctional ToM, the neuroscience of ToM, ToM within AI, and future directions for the field.

We use novel and existing model sims to make precise claims about how humans and AI interact in social settings.

Here we present formal generative principles of social representation and inference as a general research framework that provides a language for expressing falsifiable theories that explain what ToM is, and what it is not.

First joint contribution of the FENS-Kavli Bordeaux meeting 2023 🧑‍🍳 - there were also pictures of us in paper chef hats but I’ll spare you.

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