Yang Teoh
@yyangteoh.bsky.social
Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ Brown https://yiyangteoh.com
Social decision-making, learning and emotion.
Latest preprint on how people represent their social networks: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.18.643925
Social decision-making, learning and emotion.
Latest preprint on how people represent their social networks: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.18.643925
Pinned
Value computations underpin flexible emotion expression - Communications Psychology
People do not always express the emotions they feel truthfully. Computational modelling reveals that people flexibly regulate their emotion expressions by balancing their value as a communicative sign...
www.nature.com
Happy to finally see this paper (w/ @cendripetalfrce.bsky.social) out now @commspsychol.nature.com
We built a computational framework to show people flexibly balance communicative benefits against social costs when deciding whether and how to express their emotions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
We built a computational framework to show people flexibly balance communicative benefits against social costs when deciding whether and how to express their emotions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Happy to finally see this paper (w/ @cendripetalfrce.bsky.social) out now @commspsychol.nature.com
We built a computational framework to show people flexibly balance communicative benefits against social costs when deciding whether and how to express their emotions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
We built a computational framework to show people flexibly balance communicative benefits against social costs when deciding whether and how to express their emotions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Value computations underpin flexible emotion expression - Communications Psychology
People do not always express the emotions they feel truthfully. Computational modelling reveals that people flexibly regulate their emotion expressions by balancing their value as a communicative sign...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Happy to finally see this paper (w/ @cendripetalfrce.bsky.social) out now @commspsychol.nature.com
We built a computational framework to show people flexibly balance communicative benefits against social costs when deciding whether and how to express their emotions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
We built a computational framework to show people flexibly balance communicative benefits against social costs when deciding whether and how to express their emotions. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning
Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.
rdcu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
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Happy to share my new paper published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: A critical look at statistical power in computational modeling studies, particularly those based on model selection.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Happy to share my new paper published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: A critical look at statistical power in computational modeling studies, particularly those based on model selection.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
#blueprint 1/7
Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience
Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#blueprint 1/7
#blueprint 1/7
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📢 PhD opportunity 📢
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Cooperative Behaviour at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Cooperative Behaviour at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
📢 PhD opportunity 📢
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Looking for a PhD in neuroeconomics, social, or decision neuroscience? I'm looking to support an application for the MIBTP ESRC program starting Fall 2026. Details below, but please get in touch with me before applying!
Pls share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
New preprint w/ @orielf.bsky.social out. We argue that emotion concepts like 'anger' rely on people having a shared understanding to support social life, and show that consistent deviations in emotion-concept representations from the norm undermine adaptive social behavior and emotional well-being!
Deviations from normative emotion representation predicts social and affective dysfunction: https://osf.io/23k8b
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
New preprint w/ @orielf.bsky.social out. We argue that emotion concepts like 'anger' rely on people having a shared understanding to support social life, and show that consistent deviations in emotion-concept representations from the norm undermine adaptive social behavior and emotional well-being!
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I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
rouhanilab.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
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Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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New preprint!
Working memory contents can be decoded from alpha band power. But does working memory maintenance really depend on these oscillations?
We say no, because we found that alpha power decoding only works for prioritized items, not deprioritized ones. 1/3
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Working memory contents can be decoded from alpha band power. But does working memory maintenance really depend on these oscillations?
We say no, because we found that alpha power decoding only works for prioritized items, not deprioritized ones. 1/3
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sustained alpha oscillations serve attentional prioritization in working memory, not maintenance
Recent theory on the neural basis of working memory (WM) has attributed an important role to "activity-silent" mechanisms, suggesting that sustained neural activity might not be essential in the reten...
www.biorxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New preprint!
Working memory contents can be decoded from alpha band power. But does working memory maintenance really depend on these oscillations?
We say no, because we found that alpha power decoding only works for prioritized items, not deprioritized ones. 1/3
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Working memory contents can be decoded from alpha band power. But does working memory maintenance really depend on these oscillations?
We say no, because we found that alpha power decoding only works for prioritized items, not deprioritized ones. 1/3
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
rdcu.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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1st Sharp Lab preprint! 🚨 We tested how anxiety affects task generalization—not how people generalize threat stimuli, but how they reuse action-outcome structures when planning in new contexts.
Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat!
📄: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵 1/12
Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat!
📄: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵 1/12
October 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1st Sharp Lab preprint! 🚨 We tested how anxiety affects task generalization—not how people generalize threat stimuli, but how they reuse action-outcome structures when planning in new contexts.
Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat!
📄: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵 1/12
Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat!
📄: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵 1/12
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How does motivation shape learning and memory? In a new review w @ralisonadcock.bsky.social, we propose that under different motivational ‘moods', neuromodulators set distinct neural contexts to determine information processing and memory formation.
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation
Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...
www.annualreviews.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
How does motivation shape learning and memory? In a new review w @ralisonadcock.bsky.social, we propose that under different motivational ‘moods', neuromodulators set distinct neural contexts to determine information processing and memory formation.
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
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New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
September 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
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Ever slam on the brakes after seeing a speed trap? Or better yet, slow down ahead in anticipation?
In our new paper w/ @anask07.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social, we use #iEEG to study the neural basis of reactive and proactive control in medial and lateral PFC.
tinyurl.com/4bbwbffv
In our new paper w/ @anask07.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social, we use #iEEG to study the neural basis of reactive and proactive control in medial and lateral PFC.
tinyurl.com/4bbwbffv
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Ever slam on the brakes after seeing a speed trap? Or better yet, slow down ahead in anticipation?
In our new paper w/ @anask07.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social, we use #iEEG to study the neural basis of reactive and proactive control in medial and lateral PFC.
tinyurl.com/4bbwbffv
In our new paper w/ @anask07.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social, we use #iEEG to study the neural basis of reactive and proactive control in medial and lateral PFC.
tinyurl.com/4bbwbffv
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Paper and R package for (more flexible) power analysis in multilevel: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Paper and R package for (more flexible) power analysis in multilevel: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆
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Tour de force talk decomposing aspects of novelty, surprise, info gain in multi-state tasks by @modirshanechi.bsky.social
Novelty-seeking (visit new states) is common...even when its suboptimal
#CISE2025
Novelty-seeking (visit new states) is common...even when its suboptimal
#CISE2025
October 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Tour de force talk decomposing aspects of novelty, surprise, info gain in multi-state tasks by @modirshanechi.bsky.social
Novelty-seeking (visit new states) is common...even when its suboptimal
#CISE2025
Novelty-seeking (visit new states) is common...even when its suboptimal
#CISE2025
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Alice Xia, Brown G5 PhD student, studies strategic gossiping in social networks (lab and field) #CISE2025
www.feldmanhalllab.com/people
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.feldmanhalllab.com/people
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Alice Xia, Brown G5 PhD student, studies strategic gossiping in social networks (lab and field) #CISE2025
www.feldmanhalllab.com/people
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.feldmanhalllab.com/people
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📣 Interested in applying computational methods to advance understanding of mental health? Join us for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10-12)!
Apply by Oct 13: form.jotform.com/252448781112...
More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025
Please share & RT!
Apply by Oct 13: form.jotform.com/252448781112...
More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025
Please share & RT!
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📣 Interested in applying computational methods to advance understanding of mental health? Join us for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10-12)!
Apply by Oct 13: form.jotform.com/252448781112...
More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025
Please share & RT!
Apply by Oct 13: form.jotform.com/252448781112...
More info: bit.ly/nycpw2025
Please share & RT!
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Ondrej is a great scientist and mentor - I highly recommend working with him!
Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.
Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
September 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Ondrej is a great scientist and mentor - I highly recommend working with him!
Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.
Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.
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We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
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My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
Mark Chen | Department of Psychology
psychology.fas.harvard.edu
September 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
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🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...
I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵
I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track
The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...
jobs.rutgers.edu
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...
I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵
I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵