Successful social interaction relies on predicting others’ behavior. A study in Nature Neuroscience shows how humans adjust to changing strategies, revealing a neural signature of adaptive belief updating. go.nature.com/3P7U0aG #Neuroskyence 🧪
🚨 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/...
🚨 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 🧵👇
Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵
What makes adaptive decision-making possible?
New preprint connecting cognitive, social, biological, and computational views! w/ Dorst, FeldmanHall, @smfleming.bsky.social, @catehartley.bsky.social, Gottlieb, Lejarraga, Müller-Trede, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, and Rosati
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Some nice coverage here of our study published in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI on structure learning and uncertainty in compulsivity
📃 Paper available here - www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉)
📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking:
Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods?
(alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)
Our new paper with @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind.
The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius
Nature Portfolio
Humans routinely solve social problems by navigating densely interconnected networks—gossiping
strategically, brokering across cliques, and coordin...
Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers
valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance,
differences in temporal dynamics a...
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...
