Excited to take part in the European social club meeting in Coimbra and talk about synergies with the @s4sn.bsky.social #escCoimbra25

Finally, we also found that the population code was flexible (didn't care about the order of presentation) and transferable (cross-decoding for magnitude and prob.) across value components. Suggesting that these are signals about integrating multiple attributed of reward value. 5/5

Amygdala neurons also signaled reward magnitude. More interestingly, the population transitioned from signaling probability, to signaling risk when information about magnitude was shown. Here, riskier outcomes are those with higher magnitudes and highest uncertainty. 4/5

We then recorded the activity of amygdala neurons, a brain structure heavily involved in emotions and reward processing, while the animals observed these images. These neurons signaled reward probability in an abstract way because they largely did not care about the exact image used. 3/5

For this, we first confirmed that monkeys behaved as if they cared about reward probability and magnitude. For this, they chose between gambles of different reward values. The reward value was a combination of the reward probability and the reward magnitude. 2/5

Join us in Lisbon for the Society for Social Neuroscience annual meeting this September.
We are preparing a very special program: s4sn.org

Based on the work of Robert D Putnam, one of our hypotheses was that having weak ties decreased explicit biases. While we did not find evidence for this, we found a strong moderation in the respondents’ political leaning.

For this study, we created a novel, ‘Narrative Generative Survey’, in which we crafted unique brief narratives to assess at the population level distinct explicit attitudinal biases. Participants showed strong social contrast effects for several characteristics. 2/n

How do other’s characteristics modify our judgments? In a study published today in Frontiers in Psychology we show that judgments are affected by single characteristics, like gender or how others dress, and that these are moderated by political leaning. t.co/8QlVdkar2j