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Excited for the fall lineup of Motivated Cognition Meeting talks!

✨New preprint!✨ Excited to share this work by grad student Rachel Brough & honours student Chase Spurbeck @uofdenver.bsky.social: "Diverging influences of punishment motivation and negative affect on cognitive control" osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

Treatment resistant depression is incredibly cruel. This is beautiful

🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨

Congratulations to my grad student Alyssa Asmar for receiving this year’s Harry Gollob award for best student publication at DU Psychology! Congrats to all of the other award winners as well. 🤗

Proud of you Bailey! And looking forward to reading this 🤩

Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, Lee et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it. We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Von's work is super cool - uses a novel task we've built, the Denver Bespoke Gambling Paradigm (DBGP) to quantify and manipulate decision difficulty on a per-person basis, giving us unique opportunities to control and study how folks respond to variations in decision difficulty! Stop by!

We're at #SANS2025 in Chicago! 🧠 Come hear lab PhD student @jvonmonteza.bsky.social present his poster on Saturday afternoon! Von uses a cool novel task to study how effort during risky decision-making is sensitive to recent effort context. Stop by for modeling, decision times, & pupillometry!

At #SANS25? 🤗 Von Monteza, advised by @p1sh.bsky.social & myself, is presenting "Temporal contexts of effort and arousal: decision speed and pupillometry illuminate the experience of choice difficulty during a novel risky decision-making paradigm" 👁️ Poster P3A6, Sat 12-3 @sansmeeting.bsky.social

POSTPONED to May 14: Matthias Gruber - How Curiosity Shapes Spatial Exploration and Cognitive Map Formation

Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

📢 The 2025 Call for Abstracts is open! Join us at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting: Nov 20-23 in Denver, Colorado, USA. 🗓 Deadline: June 5. Guidelines: bit.ly/4lnWkWW #psynom25

Next up in the Motivated Cognition meeting series! 🧠

ICYMI: Here is the recording from today's talk with Amitai Shenhav - youtu.be/V9PhiAjRIfc @shenhavlab.bsky.social

The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...