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Social learning Neuropharmacology
@Isnlab.bsky.social
Alumnus
@jungeakademie.bsky.social
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Can we learn about unpredictable threats via observation of others? Yes, temporally predictable and unpredictable threats are learned by distinct contributions of the amygdala and hippocampus. ALSO: We find higher activation in the amygdala and anterior insula to others' pain that serves learning.
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Resolving temporal threat uncertainty by observational learning involves the amygdala, hippocampus and anterior insula
While the neurobiological distinction between temporally predictable (cued) and unpredictable (contextual) threats has been well-characterized in direct learning using the NPU paradigm, it is poorly u...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.682164v1
19 days ago
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So cool, Lauren!
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10 days ago
How can brain activity predict stock prices or viral videos? In today’s podcast, Stanford neuroeconomist Brian Knutson explores how brain signals shape choice, risk, and attention—bridging neuroscience, psychology, and economics. Listen now:
neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neurofo...
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Current Biology
11 days ago
Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation. Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and
@mattlongo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Kübra Fethiye Karataş
12 days ago
Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help? New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to
@drjocutler.bsky.social
and
@thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
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How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others
New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-helpful-brain/202510/how-dopamine-affects-our-motivation-to-help-others
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Matthew Apps
18 days ago
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the
@msnlab.bsky.social
in the
@thechbh.bsky.social
. Deadline 27/11. More info:
tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-computational-and-neural-dynamics-of-human-motivation-and-cognitive-control/?p189023
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Shawn Rhoads
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📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in
@natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵
rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
https://rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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Can we learn about unpredictable threats via observation of others? Yes, temporally predictable and unpredictable threats are learned by distinct contributions of the amygdala and hippocampus. ALSO: We find higher activation in the amygdala and anterior insula to others' pain that serves learning.
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Resolving temporal threat uncertainty by observational learning involves the amygdala, hippocampus and anterior insula
While the neurobiological distinction between temporally predictable (cued) and unpredictable (contextual) threats has been well-characterized in direct learning using the NPU paradigm, it is poorly u...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.682164v1
19 days ago
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Excited to try this! The waiting list makes me even more curious
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26 days ago
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
26 days ago
Our new
@frontiersin.bsky.social
article focused on how learning strategies and
#open-label-placebos
(OLPs) can affect academic performance. This study tested a subgroup and explored if e.g. learning strategies could impact the influence OLPs hold on cognitive outcomes. What did we find? ⤵️
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Paul Sharp
28 days ago
1st Sharp Lab preprint! 🚨 We tested how anxiety affects task generalization—not how people generalize threat stimuli, but how they reuse action-outcome structures when planning in new contexts. Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat! 📄:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Such a great summer school with time for science and everything around it.
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about 1 month ago
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Ulrike Bingel
about 1 month ago
Wirkstoff Mensch, besser könnte es zu unserer Forschung nicht passen! Hört mal rein!
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SCAN Unit
about 1 month ago
Check out our new publication led by former member
@clamassaccesi.bsky.social
showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝
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Kim Doell
about 1 month ago
With
@epronizius.bsky.social
,
@monabielig.bsky.social
,
@clauslamm.bsky.social
,
@protzko.bsky.social
, Olena Vitkovska, and Celina Kacperski, we'll explore the ethical tensions, institutional constraints, and political risks of doing science across borders—especially in times of war or crisis.
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Karin Roelofs
@epanlab.bsky.social
talks on neuromodulation of fear responses to kick-off our summerschool
@rtg2753.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Great opportunity!
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Higher responses to observed (laboratory) stress is related to war related trauma (ptsd symptoms)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others’ stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others’ stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-025-03548-4
about 2 months ago
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Excellent opportunity! Inspiring research environment and Andreas is great.
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about 2 months ago
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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg
about 2 months ago
Interested in VR research?
@martandreatta.bsky.social
and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience
Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432825003961
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Andreas @ Real Scientists DE
about 2 months ago
[Admin] Hey @realscientists.de-Fans! Wir haben nächsten Monat eine spontane Lücke frei! Wenn ihr den Account schon immer mal eine Woche lang bespielen wolltet, ist das eure Chance! Meldet euch am besten einfach bei
@jensfoell.de
. Wir freuen uns auf euch!
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Neuroengineering
about 2 months ago
Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes.
#neuroskyence
#ultrasound
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Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits - Nature Communications
Modulating deep brain structure can lead to therapies for neurological conditions. Here, the authors show a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) system featuring a 256-element helmet-shaped trans...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63020-1
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Brian Nosek
about 2 months ago
Blerg. Preregistration should elevate our understanding of the importance of exploration, not affirmative action our past bad habits that everything was always anticipated in advance.
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Oded Rechavi
2 months ago
Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2 months ago
Online Now: The cognitive side of communication in social insects
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The cognitive side of communication in social insects
Social insects rely on multiple communication channels. These channels have traditionally been considered innate, eliciting stereotyped responses. However, recent research has shown that cognitive modulation occurs in communication contexts long assumed to be entirely genetically encoded, thus revealing a previously unrecognized cognitive plasticity in social insect communication.
http://dlvr.it/TN06GM
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Thats cool
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2 months ago
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Ben Williamson
2 months ago
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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Imaging Neuroscience
2 months ago
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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PLOS Biology
2 months ago
How do catecholamines like
#noradrenaline
influence perceptual
#DecisionMaking
?
@degeelab.bsky.social
@donnerlab.bsky.social
&co show that higher
#catecholamine
levels reduce individual choice history biases by dampening bias in the accumulation of sensory evidence
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/4mMmNNX
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Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft
3 months ago
#Forschung
ohne
#Paywall
? Diamond
#OpenAccess
macht’s möglich! Ohne Kosten für Autor*innen & Leser*innen. Wie das fair & gemeinschaftlich geht, zeigen wir am 27.8. beim ELADOAH-Abschlussevent mit
@verfassungsblog.de
. Ab 19 Uhr öffentliche Diskussion im
#DigitalerSalon
👉
www.hiig.de/events/absch...
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Dan Quintana
3 months ago
I think it's time to retire the idea that oxytocin is exclusively a 'social' hormone. In our latest preprint, led by
@kjerstimw.bsky.social
, we argue that oxytocin should be reframed as a behavioral flexibility hormone
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Jan Haaker
3 months ago
Had a great time presenting my poster Mechanisms of Coordination during Foraging in Cooperative and Competitive Interactions at
#CCN2025
. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for discussions! 🧠
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
5 months ago
We now have a CRC-specific starter pack! ✨ Let me know if you are a member and would like to be added! ⤵️
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Hamburgian Wilderness
3 months ago
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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)
3 months ago
Is anybody in my bubble working in a museum or has expertise in creating museum exhibits and would have time to chat to me about something we are planning at the
@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social
? 😁
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Siri Leknes
3 months ago
Major news! Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation: Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS By
@isabellmeier.bsky.social
@martintrostheim.bsky.social
@marieeikemo.bsky.social
@loseth.bsky.social
et al Thread 👇
osf.io/preprints/os...
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https://osf.io/preprints/osf/bvfje_v1
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
3 months ago
The radio channel SWR1 talked to
@ulrikebingel.bsky.social
about how the brain influences the body and how placebo and nocebo effects work 🧠 Read the interview or listen to it (in German):
www.swr.de/swr1/rp/prog...
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Imaging Neuroscience
3 months ago
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andreas B. Eder, Matthias Gamer, et al: Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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This is really cool!
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4 months ago
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Kanske Lab
4 months ago
INTERACT is looking for student assistents at
@tudresden.bsky.social
We investigate the neural correlates of naturalistic social interaction. We now need enthusiastic student assistants to help us with participant communication, study execution and documentation! Details:
tud.link/cypvmu
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Spaghetti Icecream lab hang out. What else to say?
4 months ago
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Nicolas Legrand
4 months ago
Impressive and much-needed review on reinforcement learning models of interoception by
@lilweb.bsky.social
this month out in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
Will definitely have a look at this one 😊
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning
Rewards play a crucial role in sculpting all motivated behavior. Traditionally, research on reinforcement learning has centered on how rewards guide learning and decision-making. Here, we examine the ...
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00120-2
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Just listen to a talk by Kate Barnes...really nice finding
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37758034/
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Socially Acquired Nocebo Effects Generalize but Are Not Attenuated by Choice - PubMed
Socially acquired side-effects were demonstrated to generalize to similar, but distinct interventions, highlighting the diffuse and robust effect social modeling can have on our experiences. However, ...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37758034/
5 months ago
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
5 months ago
Patients' treatment expectations may crucially affect their treatment outcomes.☝️ Our new piece in "@jama.com Insights" explores how to help patients have a better experience and better outcomes with their treatments! 🤕 Read it here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
5 months ago
Follow all members of the CRC at once using our starter pack! 🤩
go.bsky.app/TgjkCXL
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Die Junge Akademie
5 months ago
🙌 Wir bedanken uns ganz herzlich für die Glückwünsche von Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies (
@markschies.bsky.social
) zu unserem Jubiläum. 💐
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Stephen King
5 months ago
Sorry to hear Brian Wilson has died. The Beach Boys were the soundtrack of my summers, from "Surfin' Safari" on.
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HeinLab
5 months ago
Glad to be part of this!
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PLOS Biology
5 months ago
The "rubber hand illusion" in mice...
@lucestebanez.bsky.social
&co use automated videography to show that mice display quantifiable behavioral markers of the embodiment of an
#ArtificialLimb
, opening the door to future research into human
#BodyOwnership
disorders
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/4jHsESn
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Absolutely recommend! Nice environment and excellent research project
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5 months ago
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Muhammad Hashim Satti
6 months ago
🚨 New preprint alert! Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Absence of Systematic Effects of Internalizing Psychopathology on Learning Under Uncertainty
Difficulties in adapting learning to meet the challenges of uncertain and changing environments are widely thought to play a central role in internalizing psychopathology, including anxiety and depres...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.653409v1
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