Cognitive computational neuroscientist at Yale interested in decision making, happiness & mangosteens.
Play games for science! https://happinessquest.app
Robb Rutledge
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📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16.
Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8)
Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!)
See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.
Robb Rutledge
The neuroscience of planning has long been analogized to search algorithms in artificial intelligence (AI), which simulate future actions to guide immediate choices. We argue that advances in both neu...
🎉New positions!🎉
Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions
Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app
To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.
Brilliant! In part b/c it holds up happiness as an illustration of what’s what 😉. But more seriously: IF YOUR SO CALLED THEORY DOESN‘T MAKE TESTABLE PREDICTIONS IT’S A FRAMEWORK. #TheoriesAreTheGoal
Excellent example of an influential framework-not-a-theory here:
experimentology.io/002-theories...
Did you know that this is the first year the Society for Neuroeconomics conference will be in California?
Seize the day, left coasters! Decide to come talk about decisions with us... and keynote speaker, the brilliant Carlos Brody!
neuroeconomics.org/2026-meeting/
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible.
It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding.
My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>
Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard!
DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments
From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.
Full Study in Nature Neuroscience 👉
#DeepBrainStimulation induces white matter remodeling & functional changes to brain-wide networks - Satoka Fujimoto, Atsushi Fujimoto, Catherine Elorette, @russbeneuro.bsky.social, Helen Mayberg, @rudebecklab.bsky.social, et al. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a nonhuman primate model, Fujimoto et al. show that deep brain stimulation promotes white matter remodeling and reorganizes brain-wide functional networks, detailing a mechanism through which this ...
