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@plaing94.bsky.social

Postdoc in the Dunsmoor Lab, at UT Austin. Studying emotional learning & memory, fear & safety, fMRI, etc. Australian in Texas

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APA PsycNet

I haven't posted on here much, but this new paper from the lab seems like as good reason as any:

How the nature of weak learning and retention interval affects behavioral tagging of episodic memory.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

18.07.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The neurobiology of Pavlovian safety learning: Towards an acquisition-expression framework Safety learning creates associations between conditional stimuli and the absence of threat. Studies of human fear conditioning have accumulated eviden…

We had a very very short review that might be helpful. Dorsal striatum, SNc, VTA also may be relevant

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

03.01.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Pavlovian safety learning: An integrative theoretical review

So pleased to share the (maybe?) final output from my PhD thesis (2yrs later), a labor of love (specifically, love of learning theory)

We outline a view of 'Pavlovian safety learning' as an interesting psychological construct in its own right, based on insights from learning theory

rdcu.be/dRCSg

22.08.2024 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Details : Research Fellow, Neuroimaging & Computational Neuroscience : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

Amazing postdoc opportunity in Melbourne, with some really great people!!! (my old PhD advisors)

Opportunities to do clinically relevant cognitive neuroscience, and with 7-Telsa fMRI too!!

jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

04.06.2024 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful - Nature Reviews Neuroscience β€˜Mechanism’ is a frequently used causal concept in neuroscience but can have different meanings that are often not specified. In this Review, Ross and Bassett explore these different meanings and ...

Excited to share a new paper w Dani Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience

We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.01.2024 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

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