New preprint! How do threat beliefs drive avoidance & what happens when avoidance prevents us from verifying them? New work showing a bidirectional link between beliefs and avoidance! Lucky to work w @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 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 🧵👇

Excited that my paper on metacontrol in humans and neural networks with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social and @lhuntneuro.bsky.social is out in PNAS! We examine the way that predictive representations of control enable behavioral adaptation across settings, and pathologies: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...

💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes. A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

Happening today! Join us for Dr Moneta's talk — in person in Room 313 (UCL EP, 26 Bedford Way), or online. All are welcome! P.S. I have been told the talk should also be accessible to a non-neuroscience audience!

This Wednesday at UCL, come by if you’re around!

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New in Nature Neuroscience: We developed a flexible model that reveals how animals learn tasks—uncovering stages, sudden insights, and gradual improvements unique to each animal. Learning isn't monotonic, and our model captures that complexity 🐭📊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge in people and ANNs? Great to have this out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com Work with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @tsonj.bsky.social, Lukas Braun and Jan Grohn www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share that after successfully defending my PhD last April with the great @nicoschuck.bsky.social , I will start a Postdoc with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social on 1st of September. Grateful for the past, excited for the future!

Happy to join #CCN25 in sunny Amsterdam this year! Come say hi at our poster B67 and check out how irrelevant value information influence choice behaviour. Work w @nirmoneta.bsky.social & @nicoschuck.bsky.social.

Attending #CCN2025? Come check out our poster tomorrow (Tuesday, A90) on how reward morphs neural representations of non-spatial cognitive maps in the hippocampus. Work w. @luiantaverra.bsky.social, Alex Nitsch, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social & @nicoschuck.bsky.social

‘Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: task states, values, and beyond ‘ Review article by @nirmoneta.bsky.social, Shany Grossman & @nicoschuck.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Curious how place cells adapt to uncertainty in reward location? We found that predictable changes boost “reward place cells” & warp hippocampal maps. Check out our new preprint: with Feng Xuan, Jack Mellor, Peter Dayan and Dan Dombeck: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our review on representational spaces in OFC/vmPFC and deepRL is out in Trends in Neuroscience. Was great working with Shany Grossman and @nicoschuck.bsky.social on this!