Are you interested in metacognition/ individual differences/ Bayesian modeling/ psychometrics? I'm thrilled to present our poster at #CogSci2026 🇧🇷 next week! Come check it out and chat! 📍Poster number P1-E-41 📅 2:45 pm, July 23 👥 @jasondasilvac.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

New perspective paper from our lab: “The hippocampus as a generative model” out now !! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... The traditional view of the hippocampus is that it creates a cognitive map. Here we extend this view to conceptualise the hippocampus as a “generative model”.

The hippocampus as a generative model

Abstract. A generative model can be defined as a model of the latent causes of sensory input that can be used to generate new data samples. By examining em

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The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

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Finally out in Psychological Review (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...), our update to Signal Detection Theory. We show that contrary to the prevailing Gaussian assumption, evidence distributions in recognition memory are likely minimum extreme Gumbel!

Henrik Singmann@singmann.bsky.social · last yr.

Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

happy to announce the official release of my first R package on CRAN! 🎉 building on the Hmetad toolbox by @smfleming.bsky.social, the hmetad package allows users to fit the meta-d' model of confidence ratings using a familiar brms/lme4-style formula syntax

(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing

Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t

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You love teaching psychology and London? Then we have the perfect position for you: Associate Professor (Teaching), Experimental Psychology, @uclpals.bsky.social. Your role: Develop a flexible portfolio of psychology undergraduate modules for Non-Psychology students www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB720/a...

Associate Professor (Teaching) at UCL

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The typeset version of our paper (w/ Sam, @jpheffne.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social ) in @commspsychol.nature.com is now up: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... We show that affective valence tracks value learning independent of canonical RPEs, in both social and non-social (risky) decision-making. 🧵

Affective valence as a computational signal for learning value - Communications Psychology

Reinforcement learning models often ignore affect’s well-established role in shaping behavior. This study shows evidence that affective valence serves as a computational signal that tracks learning in...

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How do brains plan actions towards goals? To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial 🧵 Work with @thomasakam.bsky.social @behrenstimb.bsky.social @kristorpjensen.bsky.social now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PSA for trainees cold emailing with interest in joining a lab: Be careful about your use of LLMs in writing these emails!! It is now *extremely* common to get emails with a bizarrely-detailed, clearly-LLM take on a paper finding or with specific phrases pulled from the lab website. Don’t do this!

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

After learning two equally structured graphs, an abstract relational map of their shared structure emerges in mPFC — but only after a few days 🧠 Huge thanks to all collaborators, especially @alonbaram.bsky.social for leading this and @behrenstimb.bsky.social for making so much of it possible.

Alon Baram@alonbaram.bsky.social · last mo.

How does the human brain extract abstract structure from experience? We show that sensory-independent relational representations emerge in mPFC over several days. Work with @mgarvert.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol...

How does the human brain extract abstract structure from experience? We show that sensory-independent relational representations emerge in mPFC over several days. Work with @mgarvert.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol...

check out the inaugural cohort of @neuromatch.bsky.social AI Sentience Scholars! this is a seriously impressive bunch!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉 Introducing the 2026 Neuromatch AI Sentience Scholars cohort! Learn more about them, the projects they will be working on, and their mentors! ⬇️ neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... We're just kicking off this 6 month program and already incredibly proud! #AISentience #AIResearch #ConsciousnessStudies

Our new paper on speciesim & eating behaviour: children highly value animals & condemn meat eating regardless of whether they do eat meat or not. In early adolescence eating & moral judgements start to align: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #DevPsychSky

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

😀Excited to share the new preprint!!!🥳 We show preserved self–other integration in social decision-making among individuals with elevated autistic traits (N = 1,621), highlighting the importance of large samples to validate null effects. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Preserved self-other integration during social decision making among individuals with elevated autistic traits

Autistic people can find social interactions difficult to navigate, traditionally attributed to difficulties in taking others' perspectives. However, we have a limited understanding of how autistic pe...

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🧠 Warum fliehen wir vor einer Bedrohung und stellen uns einer anderen? An der #LMU untersucht Neurowissenschaftlerin @annaschroeder.bsky.social, wie das Gehirn Emotionen oder Bedürfnisse mit äußeren Reizen verknüpft und in Verhalten übersetzt. Im Fokus: die Zona incerta 🔬 Was das ist? Jetzt lesen!

Wenn Gefühle Verhalten steuern

Anna Schroeder, neuberufen an der LMU, erforscht, wie das Gehirn Emotionen, Bedürfnisse und Motivation in Handlungen übersetzt – und wie es Verhalten an wechselnde Umweltbedingungen anpasst.

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New preprint from the lab! Here, @yongling.bsky.social shows that people prioritise self / ingroup-related information to guide their decisions - irrespective of their autistic traits.

Yongling Lin@yongling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

😀Excited to share the new preprint!!!🥳 We show preserved self–other integration in social decision-making among individuals with elevated autistic traits (N = 1,621), highlighting the importance of large samples to validate null effects. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Very excited to share our first effort-learning paper in @plosbiology.org! Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @Jan Grohn, @thepsychologist.bsky.social and to my co-senior authors @mkflugge.bsky.social and @lilweb.bsky.social, for all their effort on this fun project. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Our paper revealing the evolutionary origins of metacognition-driven human intelligence in the macaque brain is just out in Nature Human Behaviour rdcu.be/fji6p

Brain activity, disruption and connectivity comparisons identify origins of human metacognition in other primates

Nature Human Behaviour - Miyamoto et al. show that human metacognition depends on multiple signals in the anterior lateral prefrontal cortex, whereas in macaques it relies on distributed processing...

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🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app

Postdoc and Research Technician Positions — Rutledge Lab

Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.

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📣 New preprint 📣 "Neural Dynamics of Belief and Value Computations Guiding Strategic Social Decisions" We use EEG and computational modeling (combining learning + DDM) to explain participants' choices, RT, and neural signals in a strategic game. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint led by @mateuspsi.bsky.social and @andrecravo.bsky.social dissociating absolute from relative time estimation in the brain. Thanks for having me along! Nice to see this out even though it's also a reminder of how much we miss Mark...

Andre Cravo @andrecravo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... How does the brain separate "how long was that?" from "was it longer than expected?" We designed a task in which physical duration and categorical judgment vary independently, and used EEG to separate these signals. #neuroskyence #psychscisky 1/8

New paper just out in @commspsychol.nature.com: Beliefs about accuracy shape confidence attributions to humans and artificial agents - led by the brilliant @ccolomb.bsky.social Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧠🧪

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

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Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

Medial temporal lobe encodes cognitive maps of real-world social networks | PNAS

Humans routinely solve social problems by navigating densely interconnected networks—gossiping strategically, brokering across cliques, and coordin...

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Here's the team 🤗 (www.annaschroederlab.com/team)! Thanks for the support @erc.europa.eu, @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social. Group Photo: Carolin Bleese / LMU Faculty of Biology.