Assistant Professor in Psychology at University College Dublin 🇮🇪
Studying brain, uncertainty and learning in the context of mental health using computational models
Ondrej Zika
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#PUG2026 social evening, 23:35:
Nobody wants to take the last candy.
Great to see everybody :)
🚨 New preprint w/ Valerio Rubino and Peter Dayan: how do people discover and use compositional structure under constraints? osf.io/preprints/ps...
A key factor is a simple heuristic that favors reuse of repeated and symmetric fragments across scales, is robust to time pressure, and sped up RTs 🧵👇
Looking forward to presenting some new data on longitudinal prediction of anxiety symptoms, as part of this great symposium at #PUG2026
🚨 ERC Starting Grants: 22% increase in applications (up to 4800, from 3900).
Expected success rate: 9% (approx. 450 funded), down from 12-14%.
#ERCStG
I didn't get it this year, but I am very happy with the feedback - very concrete aspects to improve. Excited for the next round! 🕺
🚨 New preprint lead by the unstoppable @luiantaverra.bsky.social 👇
Does avoidance distort our beliefs you ask? Do anxious traits modulate this relations? Find out in the paper ^^.
Also check out the new gamified task that Luianta developed: luiantav.github.io/dog-island/
🚨🚨 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!
🧠 Neuro Talk Evening Alert!
🗓 March 26, 2026 · 6 PM (CET)
“The Role of Uncertainty Aversion in Mental Health” with Dr. Ondřej Zika
Sign-up below or on our Notion website (check the linktree in our bio) 🔔
tinyurl.com/NTE-prof-zika
#NTE #Neuroscience #StudentNetwork #Uncertainty #Computational
Very happy our first paper using ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to stimulate the human amygdala (BLA) got out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today! 🎉🥳🔊Great FUN with co-first authors @mirunmigyu.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social in @mkflugge.bsky.social 's lab!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is finally out as Version of Record 🎉
Read to find out how and when humans strategically switch between approaching and avoiding uncertainty
with Michael Shadlen and Daphna Shohamy
elifesciences.org/articles/94231
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Looking very much forward to #PUG2026 in beautiful Heidelberg!
Interested in the features and bugs of computational psychiatry 💻🧠? Join our symposium:
🕞Thursday 15:30 - 17:00 in HS 13.
W\ Isabel Berwian @lilweb.bsky.social @hashimsat.bsky.social @ondrejzika.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
The amygdala shows abnormal metabolism in depression, a disorder marked by altered emotion, motivation, and learning. Yet its causal role in these pro…
