I think that's already the case !! We can stop measuring the function of bored brains now

2 prompts attached !

it wrote all the front-end code ! just need to connect your database and adjust the trials. I just gave it this image for the style

@kellydonegan.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social

Make a choice and get feedback

Trial 1

Hello world

this is super cool and clever. Well done, really like it. Sth like this has been scratching at me for a while too - congrats on putting it together

Thanks Quentin!

thanks Micah !!

game demo: ema-motivation.web.app
repository: github.com/DevComPsy/re...

woopsy sorry, will correct!

here is a link to the full repo
github.com/DevComPsy/re...

and you can also play a demo of the game on your phone here:
ema-motivation.web.app

thank you to brilliant collaborators Prof @docqhuys.bsky.social and Dr Agnes Norbury (now Thymia) and my PhD supervisor Prof @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social

I hope it goes without saying that all data and code, including the smartphone game are available

osf.io/3mhqb/

This suggests that specific transient feelings can drive computational decision mechanisms in the future.

We think this study design can allow many new questions in computational psychiatry, bridging long established lab theories with real, human experiences and potentially clinical translation

State motivation-choice coupling was driven by fluctuations in reward sensitivity. This is a fancy way of saying that when more motivated, (the same) rewards seemed more rewarding.

What I think is SUPER 😎 is that this was not only rewards NOW, but also rewards at the NEXT timepoint.

State motivation was a critical source of variability in choices over time (leading to greater willingness to make effort, duh).

But state motivation also interacted with trait-motivation, meaning that people with LOWER trait (higher apathy) had even stronger state-choice coupling.

N.B. our game could also reliably capture effort-based choices and the model-parameters which govern this value-based decision