🚨 My new paper is out in CABN! 🚨@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛ link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Does time pressure reveal habits? Divergent results from outcome devaluation and response remapping paradigms - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Habits are central to daily life but remain difficult to study in the lab. Outcome Devaluation is often considered a “gold standard” paradigm for habit measurement; yet human studies have produced mix...

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The Social Computation and Representation Lab talk series is back tomorrow! And no better way to start the new academic year than by following @setayeshradkani.bsky.social 's talk as she weaves together two complementary strands of her investigations into social cognition.

Everything about this is heartbreaking beyond measure—I wish I/we had done more to prevent his death

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · last mo.

Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death

If you’re at #CCN2026 come stop by Sep’s poster at 2pm today! 🌵🤖👥

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you’re at CCN swing by at 2pm to hear about a social agency project I’ve been working on under the supervision of @joebarnby.com & @hayleydorfman.bsky.social (and Reuth Mirsky)

If you’re at CCN swing by at 2pm to hear about a social agency project I’ve been working on under the supervision of @joebarnby.com & @hayleydorfman.bsky.social (and Reuth Mirsky)

lucky and excited to be at this great pre-CCN workshop :) come to my poster on social agency on Tuesday

New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56

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Incredible

PredictivePapers@predictivepapers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Being left on read: a free-energy formulation doi.org/10.1038/s41593-526-84062-5

An active inference account of sneezing directly into someone's face doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.146347

If you’re at #CPC2026 come and visit Seps poster ! Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models

Mood a bit dampened by a somewhat humiliating ‘random’ check in the process of entering the US but still very excited to present some of the work we’ve been doing at the Social Computation and Representation lab, starting at Computational Psychiatry in New Haven tomorrow!

Look how far we've come in just a few years! We're fast as well! It turns out, recruiting reviewers is much easier when they're not being used as free labor for massively profitable publishers Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

Reminder, this is happening tomorrow!

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

🌵🏜️🌵 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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Looking forward to it!

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).

Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).

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

Sneak peek at the US cover for THE THINKING ANIMAL, coming Jan '27. Looking forward to sharing more - soon! @stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social

Reminder that this is happening later today 🙂

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This Thursday, we’re delighted to welcome @carocharp.bsky.social, PI of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab at the University of Maryland. She will be delivering what promises to be an insightful talk: 'Seeking advice and seeking feedback: cognitive mechanisms and relevance for psychopathology.'

This Thursday, we’re delighted to welcome @carocharp.bsky.social, PI of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab at the University of Maryland. She will be delivering what promises to be an insightful talk: 'Seeking advice and seeking feedback: cognitive mechanisms and relevance for psychopathology.'

What connects difficulties in social cognition, self-awareness, and abstract reasoning in those with Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis (CCD)? Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I think Fodor & Pylyshyn's 1988 paper is possibly the most mischaracterized paper in the history of cognitive science. It's often cited as arguing that neural networks cannot achieve systematicity, compositionality, and productivity. But that's not what they actually argue...

A reminder that this is happening tomorrow!

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Very happy to announce next week's SoCR lab guest, Andreas Hula, who will be talking about the uses and misuses of I-POMDPs in model-building human social decision-making 🧵

🚨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?

Very happy to announce next week's SoCR lab guest, Andreas Hula, who will be talking about the uses and misuses of I-POMDPs in model-building human social decision-making 🧵

This is happening tomorrow!

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's a pleasure for me to announce our next Social Computation and Representation Lab invited speaker @mkwittmann.bsky.social for a talk on dimensionality reduction and basis functions in social cognition

Very much looking forward to this talk and interesting chats!

Sepehr Razavi@srazavi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's a pleasure for me to announce our next Social Computation and Representation Lab invited speaker @mkwittmann.bsky.social for a talk on dimensionality reduction and basis functions in social cognition

Apparently Ramsey invented polymarket…. (in Resnik _Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory_)

It's a pleasure for me to announce our next Social Computation and Representation Lab invited speaker @mkwittmann.bsky.social for a talk on dimensionality reduction and basis functions in social cognition