Viktor Timokhov

No effect of preliminarily simulated cathodal HD-tDCS on the frontopolar cortex in the exploration-exploitation task - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - No effect of preliminarily simulated cathodal HD-tDCS on the frontopolar cortex in the exploration-exploitation task

For my Master thesis two years ago we've ambitiously tried to stimulate frontopolar cortex with unconventional but preliminarily simulated HD-tDCS protocol to manipulate the way people resolve exploration-exploitation dilemma (spoiler - it didn't work):

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Amazing work by amazing @saurabhbedi.bsky.social

“The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. […] That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future.”

Dual process theory in action

Ernest Hemingway, "The Undefeated" (1927)

Reference Point-Dependent Reinforcement Learning in Humans and Rats Previous studies indicate that rewards and punishments in reinforcement learning are encoded in a relative manner. Reference point-dependence, a valuation bias shared by eminent adaptation level and p...

🚨 New study alert! 🚨
Ever wondered if rats and humans learn in the same way? 🐭🧑‍🔬
We tested this — and the answer is yes, at least when it comes to how we value rewards in context.
(with @shaunaparkes.bsky.social Lachlan Ferguson, Magdalena Soukupova)

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You can also add some lemon when serving soljanka, many people find it even better like this :)

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience

"But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Scholarship Under Autocracy We Have Been Here Before

Reflections on science under autocracy, from one who remembers what it was like working in the former East Germany and Soviet Union substack.com/home/post/p-... by @vkempe.bsky.social

Book cover: orange yellow background, and generated tree in front

If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

Wow, that's interesting because in #Russian it says something like this (translated with Google Translate):

What is interesting, is that when I ask exactly the same question in Russian, it answers well and describes the situation objectively, with no censorship...

Same with Tiananmen square, although I don't know how it works with other languages.