🎉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
🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA...
Please share widely and reach out with any questions!
Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.
New preprint from the work of my placement and final year of undergrad! 🚨
We investigated the applicability of normative modelling to large-scale, gamified cognitive data, and explored how corresponding extreme deviations from the norm relate to transdiagnostic compulsivity.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Alice Cox
Some really brilliant work in this preprint from @luiantaverra.bsky.social - featuring potentially the most aversive task I've ever worked with
Interested in human replay and solid methods? Jointly with @skjerns.de we're releasing a benchmark dataset with known ground-truth neural sequences in MEG & fMRI, for developing & validating replay methods. First test: existing methods show similar effect sizes, but room to improve shorturl.at/6TgIr
Toby Wise
🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social!
If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱
In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨 Our lab's first paper is published!
The claim: anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening, but the task models people use to plan. 🧵
This tiny study provides preliminary support that world model variation is critical to explaining anxiety.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results.
we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/articles/108...
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.
Studies in rodents and humans using invasive electrophysiology have established that neural replay is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the brain that is associated with a wide range of cognitive functions, ...
We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…
Anxiety is known to distort threat perception, but can it also distort the task representations we use to plan? This study shows that individuals high in trait worry systematically undergeneralize ac...
I’m excited to share our new preprint: A Multi-Level Examination of How Hostility Unfolds During Online Argumentation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
This is the first paper to examine how toxicity manifests from belief differences and how they are represented in the human brain.
How sensitive is TDLM really? Can we actually find replay when we know it is present?
cimh-clinical-psychology.github.io
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...
