A novel and exciting approach to understanding cooperation. Linking compromise and responsibility attribution to risky decision-making in dyadic foraging | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Linking compromise and responsibility attribution to risky decision-making in dyadic foraging | PNAS

From hunting to financial planning, many decisions are made under risk and alongside social partners whose decisions and outcomes are coupled with ...

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Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.

Neural timescales from a computational perspective - Nature Neuroscience

This review integrates computational approaches to provide a unified view on how data analysis methods, biophysical mechanistic models and machine learning approaches can help to uncover the origins a...

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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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🤩PREPRINT ALERT🤩: "State of Social Cognition Research: Challenges, Future Directions, and Efforts Toward Consensus Building" osf.io/preprints/ps... Authored by the ManySocialMinds Community and presented at @escaneu.bsky.social in Rome, Italy.

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 · 4mo ago

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

Our new paper with @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind. The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Factive mindreading reflects the optimal use of limited cognitive resources

Abstract. The capacity to represent the mental states of other individuals, known as ‘mindreading’ or ‘theory of mind’, is key to successful social predict

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🚨 Our lab's first paper is published! The claim: anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening, but the task models people use to plan. 🧵 This tiny study provides preliminary support that world model variation is critical to explaining anxiety. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anxiety is Associated With Biases in Task Generalization

Anxiety is known to distort threat perception, but can it also distort the task representations we use to plan? This study shows that individuals high in trait worry systematically undergeneralize ac...

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🚨 New preprint w/ Valerio Rubino and Peter Dayan: how do people discover and use compositional structure under constraints? osf.io/preprints/ps... A key factor is a simple heuristic that favors reuse of repeated and symmetric fragments across scales, is robust to time pressure, and sped up RTs 🧵👇

What makes adaptive decision-making possible? New preprint connecting cognitive, social, biological, and computational views! w/ Dorst, FeldmanHall, @smfleming.bsky.social, @catehartley.bsky.social, Gottlieb, Lejarraga, Müller-Trede, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, and Rosati osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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Successful social interaction relies on predicting others’ behavior. A study in Nature Neuroscience shows how humans adjust to changing strategies, revealing a neural signature of adaptive belief updating. go.nature.com/3P7U0aG #Neuroskyence 🧪

Some nice coverage here of our study published in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI on structure learning and uncertainty in compulsivity 📃 Paper available here - www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Impaired Goal-Directed Planning in Transdiagnostic Compulsivity Is Explained by Uncertainty About Learned Task Structure

Diminished use of goal-directed (model-based) decision making is a hallmark of transdiagnostic compulsivity, promoting an overreliance on inflexible and habitual behaviors. However, the origin of this...

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience@kingsioppn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Are people who are more compulsive more uncertain about the consequences of their actions? @tobywise.bsky.social discusses the findings of his new study. 🔗 Find out more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/compuls... #compulsivebehavior

Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking: Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods? (alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Inferring latent self-schemas to advance understanding of mental health problems: https://osf.io/3bamh

What can rock-paper-scissors tell us about what I think that you think that I'm thinking? Check out this cool work to find out! 🤛🤛📄

Niklas Buergi@niklasbuergi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 new study reveals what brain networks govern social mentalization and adaptation, making it possible to predict how flexibly one person reacts to others. Published in @natneuro.nature.com 👉 www.econ.uzh.ch/en/news/rese...

📣 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...

Happy to share my first first-author paper, new in Science Advances: Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceAdvancesResearch @zne-uzh.bsky.social @econ.uzh.ch

Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion

Making decisions on behalf of other people reduces decision confidence, which leads to responsibility aversion.

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🧠 What if you could see thoughts? When Hans Berger recorded the first human EEG, many scientists didn’t believe him. Today, EEG is one of neuroscience’s most important tools. The story behind it is fascinating: 👇 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/berger

📣 New book chapter Excited to see my chapter "The Neural Mechanisms of Strategic Decision-Making" finally out in a new book, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions", edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, and Dominic Fareri. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📢 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)