Can loneliness affect how we learn whom to trust as we age? In our new fMRI study, we looked at how people learn to play the repeated trust game. We think there is a link between age, loneliness & dopamine function that impairs social learning - a vicious circle maybe? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬ In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨 4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠 Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W Pls 🔁

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).

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We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈 We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩 Here is our 2024 in review 👇

'Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration' -- out now in the latest issue of Neuron. @hohwy.bsky.social, Karl Friston & I propose a formal framework for designing & evaluating adversarial tests of competing theories.

New paper from the SCAN-Unit out in @eLife. Do violent video games decrease our empathy and numb us towards real violence? Let’s find out! elifesciences.org/articles/84951 Lengersdorff et al. (2023) (1/12)

Neuroimaging and behavioral evidence that violent video games exert no negative effect on human empa...

After playing violent video games for 7 hr over the course of 2 weeks, human male participants show neither signs of decreased empathy for the pain of another person nor of decreased responsivity to v...

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For those interested in the coolest present for @clauslamm.bsky.social anniversary - we wrote a “paper”named “How to be a good supervisor: a mixed-methods case study of Claus Lamm” 🤓 here the link ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

Happy new year from us! 🥳😊 Following with our tradition we present to you our year in figures and wish you all the best for 2024!

Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood! “An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]

🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on #Neuroskyence researchers to help combat #climatechange 🧠