Thrilled to share a new paper -- Changing Contributions of Emotion and Reward Information to Learning Through Adolescence -- available now in @pnas.org! doi.org/10.1073/pnas... A brief summary: (1/n)

New paper alert! Time-Based Cognition and Working Memory Explain Changes in Delay Discounting Through Adolescence ⏳💰📈 It's available online now and will contribute to a Special Issue on Delay of Gratification, expected later this year: doi.org/10.1080/1524... (1/4)

Postdoc job ad is now live! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/168298/...

Ali Cohen@aliocohen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The LUMeN Lab at Emory is hiring ✨ We’re seeking a full-time RA/lab manager and a postdoc to work on new NIH-funded studies! Formal job ads/apps forthcoming. We’re eager to hit the ground running so please share these flyers and/or reach out if interested!

✨ VERY excited to share our new paper led by Holly Bowen (SMU) & former ugrad Kyle Thurmann "Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis" finally in press @ Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 💵🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread 1/n

Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis

Extensive evidence suggests that cognitive performance is typically enhanced under increased motivation, often in the form of reward anticipation. Whi…

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🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social! If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱 In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ambiguity and confirmatory reward learning

We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…

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Now out in Developmental Science! @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono & @catehartley.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social use multi-patch foraging to identify a specific computational role for structure learning underlying developmental differences in exploration. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Structure Inference in Complex Environments Improves From Childhood to Adulthood

Early in development, children can infer latent structure in the world from sparse and ambiguous evidence. Through a process known as structure learning, they extract statistical regularities, const...

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The Hartley Lab@hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New pre-print out from our lab!!🚨 "Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference" by @noraharhen.bsky.social, Rheza Budiono, @catehartley.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Join us tomorrow afternoon at #APS2026BCN! @psychscience.bsky.social @ninarouhani.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social @katieinsel.bsky.social

I'm super excited for @psychscience.bsky.social this week! If you're interested in how motivational, emotional, and social contexts shape decision-making, come see computational models from @ninarouhani.bsky.social @hayleydorfman.bsky.social @katieinsel.bsky.social at our Thursday symposium. 💰😨👯⚖️⚙️

I'm thrilled to share a new paper, out today in Child Development! doi.org/10.1093/chid... Leveraging HCPD data, @taylorheffer.bsky.social, Patrick Mair, Leah Somerville, and I examined age-related changes in fluid cognition across 2 levels: its pacing and its structure. We found that... (1/3)

Dr. Alexandra Rodman seeks a postdoc (Fall ’26/Spring ’27) for the Social Development & Wellbeing Lab, focused on leading independent research on adolescent social neurodevelopment with a focus on fMRI pipelines, mentorship, & dissemination! Learn more here: www.socialdevlab.com/prospective-...

Prospective Postdocs — Social Development and Wellbeing Lab

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I'm thrilled to be attending #SANS2026 this week! I'll be presenting "Prospection Explains Age-Related Increases in the Use of Situation Selection for Emotion Regulation" (P1-A-f-62) on Thursday, 4/16. Catch the highlights at the 3pm spotlight or come chat at the boards from 3:30-5pm!

I am thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the University of Notre Dame (@notredame.bsky.social) as an Assistant Professor of Psychology this July!☘️🧠 Please reach out if you're interested in joining my lab! More details to follow soon.

Loved being a part of this project team! And super interested by our finding that reward-related improvements in working memory emerge during early adolescence (vs. mid- to late-adolescence in other cognitive domains). Shout-out to Megan and Katie for leading this charge!

Megan Spurney@meganspurney.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out my new preprint!! We investigate how monetary rewards influence working memory performance across ages💸 @katieinsel.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

Episodic memory facilitates flexible decision-making via access to detailed events - Nature Human Behaviour

Nicholas and Mattar found that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future. These findings reveal how the rich representational capacity of episod...

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** Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher! ** We are seeking a postdoc to help examine how brain networks might change within individuals across transitional times, such as adolescence & pregnancy! Please share widely and apply at the link! #NeuroJobs uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...

Research Associate in Psychology

The Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position to work in the DiNicola Lab. The DiNicola lab uses a precision neuroscien...

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I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

📣New review 📣 Hot off the presses! This paper from a recent special issue in @fluxsociety.bsky.social was a collaborative effort between myself and co-lead author @rebeccahennessy.bsky.social with the support of our PIs Heather Brenhouse and Juliet Davidow. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding adolescent anxiety through a neurodevelopmental lens: A comparative review of rodents and humans

Adolescence is a dynamic time period, marked by significant neural and behavioral maturation. However, much remains unknown about how this maturation …

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So grateful for this collab with rockstar @caitlyncody.bsky.social and our mentors! Excited to share our translational take on the neurodevelopment of anxiety in adolescence (and can’t believe my first publication is live!)

Caitlyn Cody@caitlyncody.bsky.social · last yr.

📣New review 📣 Hot off the presses! This paper from a recent special issue in @fluxsociety.bsky.social was a collaborative effort between myself and co-lead author @rebeccahennessy.bsky.social with the support of our PIs Heather Brenhouse and Juliet Davidow. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

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Seeking WV scientists! My dad (a non-scientist who works with scientists) is leading a FABBS delegation to discuss NIH funding with Senator Capito in August and needs to build the delegation. Please reach out and I’ll put you in touch with him! CC @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Aatish Bhatia@aatishb.com · last yr.

We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard. “This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social

Are you heading to #APS2025?! ➡️ Check out posters from my rockstar RAs! Through adolescence, they examine... 💡 Metacognition across different contexts | Waverly Huang (III-84, Fri @ 12:30pm) ⚙️ Cognitive mechanisms underpinning emotion regulation strategy use | Shuyao Wang (VII-22, Sat @ 12:30pm)

Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.

New paper with @catehartley.bsky.social How does the reward structure of the environment influence the specificity with which children, adolescents, and adults learn and remember information? See preprint 🧵 and paper for our efforts to answer to this! #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reinforcement learning increasingly relates to memory specificity from childhood to adulthood - Nature Communications

Making rewarding choices can require either generalization or individuation. Here, the authors show that across contexts, people adapt the specificity with which they represent and, increasingly acros...

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Kate Nussenbaum@katenuss.bsky.social · 3y ago

New preprint! Here, we examine how the specificity of learning computations adapts to the reward structure of the environment and influences memory across development.   osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more details. 🧵⬇️

Stoked to be at my 1st in-person SANS this week! I'll be presenting "Emotion 😀😨 and Reward 💰 Information Influence Choice in Age-Varying Ways" at poster P2-B-31 tomorrow afternoon. Looking forward to conversation and feedback! #SANS2025

🧠💡 NEW PAPER ALERT 💡🧠 Together w/ Isabelle Jacques, @katieinsel.bsky.social, @arossotto.bsky.social, & Leah Somerville, the 1st project from my PhD is now out in JEP:G! How do children, adolescents, & adults decide when to think hard? Our study examines learning the value of cognitive effort.

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press! We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.

Ali Cohen@aliocohen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Abstracts are due FRIDAY! Submit submit submit! 🧠💫

@harvardwipsych.bsky.social · 2y ago

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!! Harvard's graduate student organization, Women in Psychology, is super excited to host the 2025 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) conference in May! Abstract submissions for poster presentations, blitz talks, and sketchpads closes Friday, February 14th at 12:00PM EST.

🌵Out now! Using an RL task that manipulates people's beliefs about agency, we show that exposure to & severity of early-life adversity is associated with lower learning rates & agency beliefs. w/ the brillant @thephelpslab.bsky.social, Kate McLaughlin, & Bryan Dong learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/1...