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Postdoc @ Princeton Neuroscience Institute
https://eleanorholton.github.io/
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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...
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ines-schoenmann.bsky.social
10 days ago
New peer-reviewed paper w/
@mheilbron.bsky.social
,
@predictivebrain.bsky.social
& Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (
elifesciences.org
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Laurence Hunt
20 days ago
***4-year Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology now available at Oxford!*** Open to all areas of Psychology, including Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience. PhD in last three years, or be about to submit (some exceptions apply). Deadline: 21st May.
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
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Career Development Research Fellowship
Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed or are close to completion of a doctora...
https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vacancies/career-development-research-fellowship/
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Julie Fabre
29 days ago
How do the basal ganglia turn what you see into what you do? New preprint w/
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
,
@flickerfusion.bsky.social
&
@carandinilab.net
: we recorded across striatum, GPe & SNr in a Go/NoGo task. Striatum encodes which stimulus, GPe & SNr encode action. 🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hayoung Song
about 1 month ago
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in
@natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Geometry of neural dynamics along the cortical attractor landscape reflects changes in attention - Nature Communications
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain? Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, Song and colleagues show that the geometry of neural dynamics alo...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69041-8
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Charley Wu
2 months ago
🚀 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 🙏
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Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution
Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...
https://hmc-lab.com/SocialLearningCulturalEvolution.html
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Georgia Turner
2 months ago
🚨New pre-print🚨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?
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Irene Echeverria-Altuna
3 months ago
Curiosity-filled conversations sparked this project and teamwork has carried it forward 🫂 It's been a huge pleasure to be a part of it with
@birtandemirel.bsky.social
, Sage Boettcher
@dynacog-lab.bsky.social
,
@kateewatkins.bsky.social
and Kia Nobre
@brognition.bsky.social
🍀 Find out more 🦑🗣️⌛️⬇️
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Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau
4 months ago
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social
and I are very happy to share this paper! Building on work by
@scychan.bsky.social
, we show that how people learn depends on the distribution of examples they see, and changes in a way that’s very similar to transformer models.
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Matan Mazor
3 months ago
Very happy to see "Pretending not to know reveals a capacity for model-based self-simulation", a collaboration with
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
and
@ianbphillips.bsky.social
, out in Psych. Science!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177...
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Lisa Spiering
4 months ago
🎉 My PhD work has just been published in
@natcomms.nature.com
! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nitzan Lubianiker
4 months ago
Our new paper is out in
@natmed.nature.com
😱! A thread: Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
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Eiko Fried
4 months ago
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
https://eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machine-learning-competition-is-live/
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Princeton University Press
4 months ago
A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addiction. What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? by Hanna Pickard, illustrated by Marco Venniro, is now available (3 March UK pub). Learn more:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Matthias Nau
4 months ago
A meta-analysis of studies using Tolman’s sunburst maze suggests poor replicability and little evidence for shortcutting. Ouch! Definitely relevant reading for anyone interested in cognitive maps! 👇
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M.J. Crockett
5 months ago
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
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Nicholas Menghi
5 months ago
Our new paper, now published in
@natcomms.nature.com
, asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7)
rdcu.be/eSwvU
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The effects of task similarity during representation learning in brains and neural networks
Nature Communications - Here, the authors show learning tasks with similar structures can initially cause interference and slow down learning, but both the brain and artificial networks gradually...
https://rdcu.be/eSwvU
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Michael Browning
6 months ago
There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon! If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me,
@mkflugge.bsky.social
@lilweb.bsky.social
, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
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6 months ago
My paper is out! Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
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A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning
Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.
https://rdcu.be/eQjLN
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Mark Ho
6 months ago
Excited to share a new preprint, accepted as a spotlight at
#NeurIPS2025
! Humans are imperfect decision-makers, and autonomous systems should understand how we deviate from idealized rationality Our paper aims to address this! 👀🧠✨
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951
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Estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning
People's goal-directed behaviors are influenced by their cognitive biases, and autonomous systems that interact with people should be aware of this. For example, people's attention to objects in their...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951
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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...
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Super happy to see this review out! We ask why people are so reluctant to abandon goals and how this commitment could be understood computationally. Work with Jill O'Reilly &
@yaelniv.bsky.social
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Dan Mirea
7 months ago
🚨Out now in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. With
@yaelniv.bsky.social
and
@eriknook.bsky.social
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8 months ago
Check out
@gaiamolinaro.bsky.social
's new paper!
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8 months ago
Check out
@tifenpan.bsky.social
's just published paper! we demonstrate how to use RNNs to infer latent variables from cognitive models, even when standard methods don't work easily.
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Bonan Zhao (赵博囡)
9 months ago
My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!
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Jess Thompson
9 months ago
New preprint by William D'Alessandro and myself: The promise and peril of AI surrogacy in psychological research
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/6emg9_v1
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Denis Lan
9 months ago
My first PhD paper - with
@lhuntneuro.bsky.social
and
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social
- is now out in
@plosbiology.org
! We ask: how do humans (and deep neural networks) navigate flexibly even in unfamiliar environments, such as a new city? Link:
plos.io/45uSwNm
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Qihong (Q) Lu
12 months ago
I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026! I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory! RT appreciated! (1/5)
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Nico Schuck
about 1 year ago
Does Sleeping on a idea work? Nice to see our work led by the amazing
@anikaloewe.bsky.social
and
@maritpetzka.bsky.social
featured together with other studies in the WaPo:
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
Our preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Does sleeping on an idea work? Here’s what science says.
Scientists are finding experimental evidence that the transition between wakefulness and sleep is a portal for creative thought.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/03/13/sleep-creativity-naps-science/
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Elliott Wimmer
about 1 year ago
We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang
@shiyiliang.bsky.social
: 'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms'
osf.io/preprints/ps...
(a bit late here – a version was online back in December)
@mpc-comppsych.bsky.social
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jftrp_v2
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Kate Nussenbaum
about 1 year ago
New preprint 📝 - another fun collaboration with
@arikahn.bsky.social
,
@licezhang.bsky.social
,
@nathanieldaw.bsky.social
,
@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
We ask: Why do children and adults often derive different representations of their environments from the same experiences? 🧠👶🔎
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/amvth_v1
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Levi Kumle
about 1 year ago
Excited to see this latest paper from my PhD out! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed!
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New preprint out with
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social
! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
about 1 year ago
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