New preprint out 🌿 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With Qingyue Bi, Michelle Moller, Julian Koenig, @peterslab.bsky.social
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Biopsychology Lab at University of Cologne - Decision Neuroscience - Gambling - Reinforcement Learning
We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...
How can neurocomputation help us understand gambling addiction? 🎲 Join us next Wednesday at lunch time for a #caiantalk by Prof. Jan Peters ( @peterslab.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social) on "Skewed mental models: a neurocomputational perspective on problem gambling."
Audiovisual cues must be predictable and win-paired to drive risky choice elifesciences.org/articles/105...
Audiovisual cues must be predictable and win-paired to drive risky choice
Sensory cues increase risky choice when paired with wins but reduce risky choice when paired with losses, with parallel shifts in sensitivity to negative outcomes.
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🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 PLEASE RT! 🚨 7 four-year PhD positions (75%) in DFG-funded Research Training Group “Flexibility and Balance as Characteristics of Adaptive Self-Regulation” in Saarbrucken, Germany. Starting date October 01, 2026. Official job ad: tinyurl.com/3v8b4chm (1/3)
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Are you a DGPA member (or thinking of becoming one 😁) conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Apply now for the 2026 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
Bewerbungsfrist bis zum 26.04. verlängert!
Peters Lab@peterslab.bsky.social · 4mo agoPostdocstelle in der Biopsychologie in Köln zu besetzen: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... Spannende Forschung, nettes Team und 4 SWS Lehre im Bachelor/Master Psychologie. Bewerbungsfrist endet am 17.04. - gerne Teilen.
The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de
Postdocstelle in der Biopsychologie in Köln zu besetzen: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... Spannende Forschung, nettes Team und 4 SWS Lehre im Bachelor/Master Psychologie. Bewerbungsfrist endet am 17.04. - gerne Teilen.
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Out now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social 🚨. Hunger often affects our mood, but is this a conscious or a subconscious process? Using continuous glucose monitoring, we show that differences in mood are driven by hunger ratings, not just glucose. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.thelancet.com/journals/EBI...
Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.
Action repetition biases choice in context-dependent decision-making - Communications Psychology
This study shows that decision biases previously attributed to value normalization (e.g. relative value learning or range normalization) are better explained by action repetition. Repeating an action ...
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Dopamin und das Warten auf Belohnungen🤩🎁 Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass L-DOPA, eine Vorstufe des Neurotransmitters Dopamin, Menschen dazu bringt, länger auf Belohnungen zu warten. Sie zeigt, dass der Effekt einer Verringerung der Impulsivität um etwa 20 % entspricht. ▶️ https://uni.koeln/WV6NT
‼️New preprint‼️ There does not seem to be an effect of ghrelin on risky decision-making in probability discounting. Not in behaviour, underlying computational processes, or neural activity. More details ⬇️
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10mo agoGhrelin and risky decision-making: No credible evidence for homeostatic state modulation of neural or behavioural effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683454v1
2 Postdoc positions with my fabulous new colleague @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social - chair of biopsychology @tudresden.bsky.social - thanks for sharing - @dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
Tyrosine supplementation and exploration in RL: new @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social preprint from the lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Catecholamine Precursor Modulation of Human Exploration: Evidence From a Large Gender-Balanced Sample
The catecholamine precursor tyrosine has been linked to improved cognitive performance, but investigations into decision-making and reinforcement learning processes known to be under catecholamine con...
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We're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
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New neural network modeling work from the lab @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recurrent Neural Network Exploration Strategies During Reinforcement Learning Depend on Network Capacity
Artificial neural networks constitute simplified computational models of neural circuits that might help understand how the biological brain solves and represents complex tasks. Previous research reve...
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New work from the lab now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: A neurocomputational account of multi-line electronic gambling machines www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
A neurocomputational account of multi-line electronic gambling machines
Multi-line electronic gambling machines (EGMs) are strongly associated with problem gambling. Dopamine (DA) plays a central role in substance-use disorders, which share clinical and behavioral feature...
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🚨BREAKING 🚨 Abstract submission for the 2024 Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference is open (registration is expected to open next week) via pug2024.de. Deadline for symposia/panel discussions: 29.2, poster: 31.3. See you in Hamburg!
🚨Job alert 🚨we have an opening for a PhD position in cognitive/computational neuroscience, application deadline February 29th. Please repost! Initial contract until 2025 (parental leave replacement) but will be extended as needed. Get in touch if you have any questions.
And our work on automatic detection of problem #gambling signatures in online data using large language models - now out as arxiv preprint arxiv.org/abs/2312.00804
We have some new work out for folks interested in #gambling and #gaming - #LootBox content is linked to increased user engagement on YouTube: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Functional neuroimaging as a catalyst for integrated neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41... - fun toi write this with @macshine.bsky.social and @esfinn.bsky.social !
1/4 🧠 In our latest work jneurosci.org/content/43/4... @peterslab.bsky.social we show that chronic deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior limb of the internal capsule/NAcc region impacts the reliability of intertemporal preferences in patients with treatment-resistant OCD.
All grants should follow the "just submit a 2-page letter first and then we'll let you know if you even have a chance" model. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Final call! Come work with us!
Tina Lonsdorf@tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · 3y ago🔥Job Alert (Post-doc oder PhD student) in my team@unibielefeld! Open topic with a desired focus on "advanced" analyses of individual differences using fMRI and/or psychophys/behav. data or their combination using available (or if preferred: new) data! tinyurl.com/3fdcprvh
For #neuroskyence folks interested in #gambling and #dopamine: I recently wrote a piece on the different ways in which dopamine might be involved in electronic machine #gambling: osf.io/preprints/ps... #neuroscience
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So happy to see lots of great colleagues joining! To make this community thrive, use reposting liberally 🙋♂️🙋♀️🙌🖐️ 📩📩📩📩📩📩📩