New research assistant position available in our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). DM or email me if you're interested to learn more!

We are looking to hire a postdoc and a lab manager / research assistant for our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). DM or email me if you're interested to learn more!

Our paper on double decisions in working memory tasks is now published in Computational Brain and Behaviour! When you give people a second chance, it reveals a lot about the contents of their memory. Led by @paulmgarrett.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social rdcu.be/e8SLX

Check out our new paper which isolates a human brain signal that specifically tracks the growing urgency to commit to a choice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41611534/. This one was a long time coming! Sterling work from @harveymccone.bsky.social and a bunch of past lab members!

A Movement-Independent Signature of Urgency During Human Perceptual Decision Making - PubMed

How does the brain adjust its decision processes to ensure timely decision completion? Computational modelling and electrophysiological investigations have pointed to dynamic 'urgency' processes that serve to progressively reduce the quantity of evidence required to reach choice commitment as time e …

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Check out our new paper showing early V1 choice probability effects while accounting for other potentially mediating processes - the interesting fruits of yet more excellent, rigorous work by Kieran Mohr

@kiemohr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very happy to share this new paper, published in @elife.bsky.social, the last one stemming from a PhD chapter 🥲. In it, @spk3lly.bsky.social and I show that an early V1 signal (the C1) can have direct influence on a perceptual decision. Here's the link: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain? We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong) 1/n

Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions

Voluntary decisions have previously been described by where they arise in the brain and how actions corresponding to one's choice are prepared. However, the processes by which these internally guided ...

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Check out our reviewed preprint, now out in eLife! With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:

Check out our new multisensory decision study! We tackle a decades-old Q: does faster detection of bimodal targets come from a race or co-activation between modalities? And also a vital, orthogonal Q: is it one decision process or two? A1: co-activation A2: two! Read here: rdcu.be/eASYd

Distinct audio and visual accumulators co-activate motor preparation for multisensory detection

Nature Human Behaviour - Egan et al. examine multisensory evidence accumulation and show that auditory and visual evidence is accumulated in distinct processes during multisensory detection, and...

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Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 12mo ago

In this article, Egan et al. examine multisensory evidence accumulation and show that evidence in two modalities sub-additively co-activate a single, thresholded motor process.

New paper from the lab indicates some surprising differences in visual cortical contributions to two popular VEP types. In it, Kieran uses some of his brilliant tricks from last year's paper:

Visual cortical area contributions to the transient, multifocal and steady-state VEP: A forward model-informed analysis

Abstract. Central to our understanding of how visual-evoked potentials (VEPs) contribute to visual processing is the question of where their anatomical sources are. Three well-established measures of ...

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@kiemohr.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to share this paper, now published in @arvoinfo.bsky.social. With @spk3lly.bsky.social‬ and Anna Geuzebroek we explored differences in visual cortical responses for pattern pulses and pattern reversals. Here's the link: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Delighted to share this paper, now published in @arvoinfo.bsky.social. With @spk3lly.bsky.social‬ and Anna Geuzebroek we explored differences in visual cortical responses for pattern pulses and pattern reversals. Here's the link: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Our newest preprint is out (doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.05.658071), with @lucvermeylen.bsky.social,Dasha Monakhovych, Cameron McCabe, Sarah-Louise Mannion, @kobedesender.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, comparing post-decision confidence models against behaviour and neural decision signals...

Neurally-informed modelling unravels a single evidence accumulation process for choices and subsequent confidence reports

Subjective confidence in perceptual choices depends on computations occurring prior to and after choice commitment. However, the nature of these computations remains unclear. Current models disagree o...

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If you are into psychology or behavioural sciences, check out this new piece we have in Nature Human Behaviour on degrowth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth

Nature Human Behaviour - Degrowth is a socioeconomic paradigm that prioritizes planetary health and human wellbeing through a democratically planned reduction of unnecessary production and...

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Very happy to share this paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com! nature.com/articles/s41... With @spk3lly.bsky.social and @neuromurphy.bsky.social, we investigated the neural computations that allow us to make near-optimal decisions in changing environments. Here's a short summary:

Dissociable encoding of evolving beliefs and momentary belief updates in distinct neural decision signals - Nature Communications

People are capable of making near-optimal decisions in volatile, changing environments. Here, the authors show how two neural decision signals encode distinct aspects of the belief updating process un...

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A little temporal integration or leaky evidence accumulation might be all that's needed to explain subjective aspects of stimulus detection like perceived duration or confidence. New comp. modelling preprint from *Ramla Msheik* with Emma Sirouet, @spk3lly.bsky.social and @nfaivre.bsky.social.

Through thick and thin, the ultra-resilient Ramla Msheik completed the main study of her PhD, which supports leaky evidence accumulation as a computational mechanism underlying perceptual confidence and subjective duration. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come join us in Dublin June 11-14th for the Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social! Great speaker list rldm.org/invited-spea..., workshops and tutorials soon to be announced. Abstract submission deadline 15th January. Don't miss out!

We are looking to hire a lab manager / research assistant for our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). Ideal start date 03-2025. Open to non-US applicants but it’s a (mostly) in-person job. Plz DM or email me if you’re interested or have questions! Official link will follow.

Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025) Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit