Saying goodbye to beautiful Tübingen now. #CPConf2025 was absolutely fantastic! Learned so much about comp psychiatry and had lovely discussions about my work on causal learning and control, and their relationship to mental health ✨

6/8 👥 Activity in this brain region also signals a second learning mechanism, by which individuals attribute outcomes to themselves versus others, in proportion to their perceived control.

5/8 🧠 Our fMRI results show that the supramarginal gyrus plays a crucial role in establishing controllability during social interactions. It tracks inferred controllability and the components necessary for this inference.

4/8 📊 We developed an optimal Bayesian learning model as well as two sub-optimal models. Results from these models suggest that active disambiguation, and insight into when it occurs, are essential to infer controllability.

3/8 🤔 Why make mistakes on purpose? It's one of the best ways to uncover latent causes in the task and establish how much of a shared outcome is due to their actions vs. someone else's.

2/8 🔍 Using a novel social learning task, we observed a striking behaviour: people purposefully make mistakes to gather information about their control over joint outcomes. We refer to this behaviour as “active disambiguation”.