Tatia Buidze
@tatiabu.bsky.social
🧠 | University College London (UCL), Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational modelling of brain dynamics in attention, value learning, and social cognition
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Tatia Buidze
@tatiabu.bsky.social
· Jun 18
Expectation violations as an effective alternative to complex mentalizing in novel communication
Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Social sciences
www.cell.com
✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨
🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.
📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.
📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
September 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
Interesting implications for models (& minds?)
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I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14).
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
Register for Computational Neuroscience - NAD Workshop 🖥️
📅 WHEN: August 11-14
🧑🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution
🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference
⏰ DEADLINE: June 26
Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8
📅 WHEN: August 11-14
🧑🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution
🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference
⏰ DEADLINE: June 26
Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8
June 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14).
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
Ready to shape the future of #ComputationalScience?
We’re inviting researchers like you to mentor student-led projects this July. Just 2-3 hours of commitment and no prep needed!
This is your chance to give back and grow!
➡️ Learn more and sign up to #volunteer neuromatch.io/mentoring/
We’re inviting researchers like you to mentor student-led projects this July. Just 2-3 hours of commitment and no prep needed!
This is your chance to give back and grow!
➡️ Learn more and sign up to #volunteer neuromatch.io/mentoring/
June 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Ready to shape the future of #ComputationalScience?
We’re inviting researchers like you to mentor student-led projects this July. Just 2-3 hours of commitment and no prep needed!
This is your chance to give back and grow!
➡️ Learn more and sign up to #volunteer neuromatch.io/mentoring/
We’re inviting researchers like you to mentor student-led projects this July. Just 2-3 hours of commitment and no prep needed!
This is your chance to give back and grow!
➡️ Learn more and sign up to #volunteer neuromatch.io/mentoring/
✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨
🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.
📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.
📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Expectation violations as an effective alternative to complex mentalizing in novel communication
Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Social sciences
www.cell.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨
🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.
📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs.
📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
What about the social cerebellum during development we wondered? Here you find some cool insights on this awesome part of the brain! BIG thanks for the great work Katerina Manoli, and support from Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann and Frank van Overwalle 🧠🦋 rdcu.be/epKmZ
Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood
Nature Communications - The cerebellum is heavily implicated in adult social cognition, but its role in Theory of Mind development remains unclear. Here, the authors show that children’s...
rdcu.be
June 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
What about the social cerebellum during development we wondered? Here you find some cool insights on this awesome part of the brain! BIG thanks for the great work Katerina Manoli, and support from Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann and Frank van Overwalle 🧠🦋 rdcu.be/epKmZ
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers
Queer people are still underrepresented both as STEM researchers and participants, partially due to a dearth of accurate data on this demographic. The lack of consideration for queer identities in dat...
dx.plos.org
May 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf
drive.google.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
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Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟
Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in economic and social decision-making in humans but the specific functions of its subregions are not clear. This study shows that the dorsal mPFC is ca...
journals.plos.org
April 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!
🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟
www.compsoccog.com
www.compsoccog.com
🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
April 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
There is again a model-based neuroscience summer school from Aug 4-8th in Amsterdam! modelbasedneurosci.com
Model-Based Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School
Visit the post for more.
modelbasedneurosci.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
There is again a model-based neuroscience summer school from Aug 4-8th in Amsterdam! modelbasedneurosci.com
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
getting this paper published was a bit painful but I am proud of it: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We use deep RL to find mechanisms that help (real) people sustain the commons. Well done to Raphael Koster and Miruna Pislar (not on BlueSky). non-paywalled version on arxiv.
Deep reinforcement learning can promote sustainable human behaviour in a common-pool resource problem - Nature Communications
Koster et al introduce a deep reinforcement learning (RL) mechanism designed to manage common-pool resources successfully encourages sustainable cooperation among human participants by dynamically adj...
www.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
getting this paper published was a bit painful but I am proud of it: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We use deep RL to find mechanisms that help (real) people sustain the commons. Well done to Raphael Koster and Miruna Pislar (not on BlueSky). non-paywalled version on arxiv.
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence
March 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence
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Think about conference location to avoid visa discrimination www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We moved a conference halfway around the globe to avoid visa discrimination
Event organizers often overlook the visa-related difficulties that researchers in low- and middle-income countries face. This must change.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Think about conference location to avoid visa discrimination www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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creative ways that students use chatGPT www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ChatGPT for students: learners find creative new uses for chatbots
The utility of generative AI tools is expanding far beyond simple summarisation and grammar support towards more sophisticated, pedagogical applications.
www.nature.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
creative ways that students use chatGPT www.nature.com/articles/d41...
✨Excited to share that our paper on how expectation violations shape novel human communication has just been published in Nature Communications! ✨
📖 read the full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
🧵 Detailed breakdown bellow! 👇
📖 read the full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
🧵 Detailed breakdown bellow! 👇
Expectation violations signal goals in novel human communication - Nature Communications
In the absence of language, there is a lack of common knowledge necessary for efficient communication. Here, the authors show that people solve this problem by reverting to commonly accepted physical ...
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
✨Excited to share that our paper on how expectation violations shape novel human communication has just been published in Nature Communications! ✨
📖 read the full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
🧵 Detailed breakdown bellow! 👇
📖 read the full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
🧵 Detailed breakdown bellow! 👇
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
February 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.
Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .
👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation - Communications Psychology
When group size in a dynamic group-based prisoner's dilemma grows, cooperative choices increase. Increased memory demands in larger groups explain this prosocial tendency.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias!
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.
cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.
cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
An Active Inference Model of the Optimism Bias | Computational Psychiatry
Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...
cpsyjournal.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias!
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
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"It’s not easy to point out errors, especially when they’re attached to the name of someone who holds great power over you." www.science.org/content/arti...
Investigating scientific misconduct is hard—especially when your supervisor is an author
“The paper was riddled with serious problems,” this Ph.D. student writes
www.science.org
February 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"It’s not easy to point out errors, especially when they’re attached to the name of someone who holds great power over you." www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Tatia Buidze
Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner:
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
Revisiting sex and gender in the brain
To conduct scientifically accurate and socially responsible research, think of “sex” as a complex, multifactorial and context-dependent variable.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner:
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...