Gökhan Aydogan
@drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social
Neuroeconomist - interested in human behavior, neuroeconomics🧠, neurogenomics🧬, good food🌯, music🎶, and astrophotography🔭
📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)
How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs? Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neural signature of adaptive mentalization | Nature Neuroscience
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War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686844v1
🚨 Paper alert 👇 Does war trauma leave a lasting imprint on civilians’ brains🧠? We analyzed ~40k MRIs in the #UKBiobank, including ~6k of people born during WWII. Those exposed to close bombings in-utero show differences in brain structure, even decades later. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686844v1
1/ 🚨 New preprint: Acute stress doesn’t just change feelings—it warps how big payoffs look, pushing people to be more risk-seeking than usual. 👉 “Acute stress reduces risk-aversion by changing magnitude perception.” doi.org/10.1101/2025... @gillesdehollander.bsky.social @saurabhbedi.bsky.social
Acute stress reduces risk-aversion by changing magnitude perception
Stress is thought to impair financial decision-making by influencing the willingness to take risks. This effect is commonly attributed to stress-related changes in affective evaluation of rewards and ...
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📢 New preprint 📢 (with Daniil Luzyanin) We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉Great work by my colleagues at @econ.uzh.ch
Saurabh Bedi@saurabhbedi.bsky.social · 11mo ago📢 Preprint out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... What gives rise to probability weighting, a cornerstone of Prospect Theory? We show it comes from the natural boundedness of probabilities + cognitive noise. Adding boundaries adds multiple distortions, across risky choice & perception.
📢 Preprint out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... What gives rise to probability weighting, a cornerstone of Prospect Theory? We show it comes from the natural boundedness of probabilities + cognitive noise. Adding boundaries adds multiple distortions, across risky choice & perception.
Probability weighting arises from boundary repulsions of cognitive noise
In both risky choice and perception, people overweight small and underweight large probabilities. While prospect theory models this with a probability weighting function, and Bayesian noisy coding mod...
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🤔How do humans anticipate an opponent's moves in strategic games? Excited to share our latest work on #mentalization in strategic games. After years of work, we've empirically validated our new model, behaviorally (N~500) and neurally (N~100) 🧠 a 🧵 (1/5)
