📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)

A study by @niklasbuergi.bsky.social, @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social, @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social, @ccruff.bsky.social at @zne-uzh.bsky.social

How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs? Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...

War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686844v1

🚨 Paper alert 👇 Does war trauma leave a lasting imprint on civilians’ brains🧠? We analyzed ~40k MRIs in the #UKBiobank, including ~6k of people born during WWII. Those exposed to close bombings in-utero show differences in brain structure, even decades later. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👇Check out our new pre-print 👇

War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686844v1

1/ 🚨 New preprint: Acute stress doesn’t just change feelings—it warps how big payoffs look, pushing people to be more risk-seeking than usual. 👉 “Acute stress reduces risk-aversion by changing magnitude perception.” doi.org/10.1101/2025... @gillesdehollander.bsky.social @saurabhbedi.bsky.social

📢 New preprint 📢 (with Daniil Luzyanin) We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👉Great work by my colleagues at @econ.uzh.ch

📢 Preprint out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... What gives rise to probability weighting, a cornerstone of Prospect Theory? We show it comes from the natural boundedness of probabilities + cognitive noise. Adding boundaries adds multiple distortions, across risky choice & perception.

🤔How do humans anticipate an opponent's moves in strategic games? Excited to share our latest work on #mentalization in strategic games. After years of work, we've empirically validated our new model, behaviorally (N~500) and neurally (N~100) 🧠 a 🧵 (1/5)