Pr Kent Berridge, one of the most influential behavioral neuroscientists of the 21st century, will be at the Bordeaux Neurocampus on March 24, 2026, for a lecture on pleasure, desire, and addiction 🤩
@univbordeaux.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social
www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/event/semina...
How does the brain build a memory?
A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram.
In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:
www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...
Deadline: May 4th, 2026
New (purely behavioral, computational psychiatry) preprint out from the neurosmiths, led by the brilliant @niloufarshahdoust.bsky.social
We hope this work will help us learn about the computational bases of impulsive choices underlying numerous mental health disorders.
skeeprint below:
24-Hour Final Call for BAMB! 2026 ⏳
Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) and learn from our expert faculty:
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@marcelomattar.bsky.social
@khamascience.bsky.social
@thecharleywu.bsky.social
Apply now:
www.bambschool.org
8 days left to submit to the Human x AI Finance conference!
- 🏆 $1,000 prize for the best paper.
- ✈️ The top 4 papers will be invited for presentation at the Fink Center Conference on Financial Markets at UCLA Anderson School of Management (travel and lodging included).
🔗 humanxaifinance.org
Sycophantic AI distorts reality by returning responses that are biased to reinforce existing beliefs.
"sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt."
Unbiased sampling produces discovery rates 5X higher! arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14270
📣 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)
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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draft lab ai policy, feel free to use, modify, or discuss! todd.gureckislab.org/2026/03/06/g...
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
RIP redundancy reduction?
Beautiful work by Liu & colleagues showing that neural redundancy increases with learning, as predicted by a Bayesian model:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why we value things more as we are about to lose them
A novel theory that explains why subjective value and effort-based decisions change over time, shedding light on reference-dependent behavior in both every day and high-stakes decision-making contexts
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
my course notes on a bayesian workflow for (single agent) cognitive modeling are now fully revised and online: fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn...
Predictive checks, updating checks, sensitivity analyses and simulation based calibration in @mc-stan.org
Feedback is very welcome!
New paper out in Child Development (@srcdorg.bsky.social) with Dave Sobel (@candmlab.bsky.social)! ✨ We investigated how 5- to 7-year-old children decide to take on easy versus hard tasks while pursuing a goal. doi.org/10.1093/chid...
This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...
📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!
Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?
In short, yes!
I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.
I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.
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sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...
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!
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
Ultrasound gives our brain a nudge in the right direction 🧠
👀 Look to your left, look to your right!
We used #ultrasound to stimulate the brain and it changed human choice behavior within a fraction of a second. No surgery, no implants.
Link to paper ⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come join us at BAMB! to learn all about modelling behavior and what Barcelona’s beaches have to offer 🏐🏄♂️🏊♂️
Applications for 2026 are open here: www.bambschool.org
🚨 JOB alert: 📢
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
This Wednesday February 25! Dr. Michael Treadway (Emory University) is presenting in
@motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Effort-Based Decision-Making and Its Discontents: Precision medicine approaches for understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of motivational deficits in mental illness" 1/
Where you look next isn’t arbitrary.
In our new paper, we model human eye movements in immersive visual search as reinforcement learning under cognitive constraints. 🧵
in my decision-making course we devote one class to a group exercise in which the students need to use what they learned in Act 1 ("Rational Decision Making") to shut down a rogue AI in the semi distant future; this is the intro.
Perdue banning all Chinese students just for national origin. No other reason. The Harper's Letter crowd must be crafting a humdinger of a new letter over this one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...
What happens when we can't use recursive belief to compete? We can use anomaly detection instead!
Here, we (led by soon-to-be-Dr @nitalon.bsky.social ) devise a multi-agent account where compression & reward expectation are used to notice deception
jair.org/index.php/ja...
