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Leslie Held
@leslieheld.bsky.social
FWO PhD fellow in Experimental Psychology at Ghent University working on cognitive control and decision making @Braemlab.
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We moved our symposium to a bigger room so we have a few more extra seats available now! Join us September 10th for our symosium on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility"
shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Poster or talk submission deadline is in two weeks: July 31st!
July 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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We're organizing a symposium in Ghent on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility" on Wednesday, September 10th, with six exciting speakers: shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Registration is free, but seats are limited. You can also submit poster or talk abstracts by July 31st!
shengjiexu.ugent.be
May 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Super proud of @felixklaassen.bsky.social for his new paper on the neurocomputational link between defensive freezing and approach-avoidance arbritation under threat: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The neurocomputational link between defensive cardiac states and approach-avoidance arbitration under threat - Communications Biology
A human fMRI study shows that defensive cardiac states moderate the neural computations of reward and threat value underlying approach-avoidance arbitration.
www.nature.com
May 20, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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We're looking for a new PhD student to come and work with us on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning! Deadline April 26th. For more information, please see users.ugent.be/~sbraem/
March 27, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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We wrote a brief opinion article, with @chaimengqiao, Leslie Held, and @ShengjieXu0813, on why we believe most cognitive control processes should not be considered off-the-shelf processes that can be readily applied in any task, whenever asked to: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iSXH8MqMi... (1/3)
January 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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Happy the 2nd empirical chapter has (finally!) been published in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s41...
In this work, we used simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings to investigate the temporal cascade of biased learning from rewards and punishments across cortex and subcortex.
January 5, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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New review paper out with Tom Verguts!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We argue that cognitive flexibility requires hierarchy and modularity.
However, adding these computational features to classic learning rules comes with several challenges.
Challenges that can be addressed by AI and cognitive scientists.
November 14, 2023 at 6:53 AM
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🚨 Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD project. Working with Clay Holroyd, Marcel Brass, and @sebraem.bsky.social
, we designed a novel paradigm to investigate dynamic changes in task preparation in a multi-task environment.

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October 31, 2023 at 4:23 PM