Assistant Professor at UC Riverside studying learning and goal-directed behavior. Director of the Computational Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab (https://www.ballardlab.org). He/him
🎧 New Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode
@vpmurty.bsky.social describes his research for an SRNDNA Pilot Grant and finding inspiration at a haunted house. He also talks about moving his lab across country and the impact of a single line in his presentations.
Listen now: srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.
We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ian Ballard
🧠👀 Do goals & desires shape what we see—or just what we say we see?
In our review, we outline a neurocomputational framework where motivation biases perception and action via distinct neural systems:
👉 Amygdala & LC-NE boost what we want to see.
👉 Striatal dopamine biases what we choose to report.
Excited to share our upcoming workshop on neuroscience, reinforcement learning, and decision making at RLDM 2025 in Dublin, Ireland — June 11–14!
Check out the terrific speaker lineup:
🔗 sites.google.com/view/neurorl...
Co-organized with @angelaradulescu.bsky.social
@rldmdublin2025.bsky.social
The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
Only ONE WEEK until #RLDM2025 ☘️ We can’t wait to welcome brilliant minds from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond for cutting-edge talks on reinforcement learning & decision making. Spaces are disappearing quickly so grab your spot before it’s gone! Register now 👉 rldm.org
Decision & Aging
📢 #RLDM2025 is nearly here – 11–14 June at Trinity College Dublin ☘️
Join researchers from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond to explore the latest in reinforcement learning & decision making.
🎟️ Register now to secure your spot: rldm.org #ReinforcementLearning #AI #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience
Excited and thrilled and humbled that our work is now out at Nature Human Behaviour linking Memorability with Time Perception! I hope you all find it of interest 🙂
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)
#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky #science
#RLDM2025 officially starts tomorrow! 🚀 Have you checked out our program? See details below, full program is available at rldm.org 👀
New to RLDM? Join our first-timers gathering tonight, 6-7pm, at Kennedy's Pub (30-32 Westland Row) 😊
David Clewett
Ian Ballard
Ian Ballard
In this Article, Ma et al. show, across a series of experiments, that time and memorability (the probability of recalling a visual stimulus) mutually influence one another, suggesting that time is a f...
