📢 Please spread the word! We are looking for a motivated Research Assistant to contribute to a new project investigating motor meta-cognition. The project aims to understand how and when people begin to realise that they are mastering a skill while learning a new motor task. Job details 👇

Research Assistant at Queen Mary University of London

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Check out this new work from @ranimo.bsky.social and colleagues, who used reinforcement learning to study the cognitive biases that affect us when forming beliefs based on non-credible information. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Disinformation elicits learning biases

Learning from potential disinformation introduces specific cognitive biases, causing individuals to systematically deviate from an idealized Bayesian updating strategy.

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Understanding matters in voluntary action choices. Check out our new paper! www.linkedin.com/posts/keiji-...

Freedom through understanding: instructed knowledge shapes voluntary action choices | Keiji Ota

🌟 New paper out in Royal Society Open Science! https://lnkd.in/egNvvkf9 “Freedom from understanding: instructed knowledge shapes voluntary action choices” (with Eleni Christofilea, Lucie Charles, Jea...

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Thrilled to announce I've received a small grant from the Experimental Psychology Society, @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Lucie, @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social for helping shape the idea. We'll explore how and when people become aware of mastering new motor skills during motor learning.

I had the privilege of contributing to the Summer School of Decision Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was a fantastic opportunity to share ideas of comput models. Huge thanks to Dr. Gabriele Bellucci! center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s... @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Passionate about research on biological and artificial minds? @preparedmindslab.bsky.social at @queenmarycbb.bsky.social is hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in modelling and animal Cognition qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/... write me for informal inquiries 🐣👾🤖

An exciting idea in cognitive neuroscience is the brain approximates the Bayesian computations. Is it enough to ask if we follow Bayesian? Our new paper @PLOSCompBiol developed a novel measure to examine patterned deviations from Bayesian Decision Theory journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Dissecting Bayes: Using influence measures to test normative use of probability density information derived from a sample

Author summary Bayesian decision theory (BDT) is used to model human performance in tasks where the decision maker must compensate for uncertainty in order to gain rewards and avoid losses. BDT prescr...

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