Drew E. Winters

Want to study how the brain supports social behavior + cognitive control? The ASCEND Lab (CU Anschutz Psychiatry) is hiring a full-time Research Coordinator (TMS/fMRI, cognitive neuroscience). Great prep for a career in research and PhD/MD/industry paths.
Apply here: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Probabilistic Cognitive State Modeling (PCSM): Decoding Latent Spatiotemporal Dynamics to Reveal Serial-Parallel Processing, Cognitive Demand, and Serial Bottleneck in Task-Based fMRI Studying flexible, adaptive transitions between cognitive tasks and serial-parallel processing under changing task demands has been a central focus for understanding human cognition. Advances in neuro...

Excited to share my new preprint on Probabilistic Cognitive State Modeling (PCSM), a method that connects cognitive theory and neuroimaging by modeling serial-parallel processing, demand, and bottleneck dynamics over time.
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
GitHub/Code/Data: github.com/drewwint/pcsm

Next week, Wed Oct 1 at the usual time (1:30PM EST) and zoom link, we'll host Miriam Klein-Flügge @mkflugge.bsky.social speaking on "Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making." DM me your email if not on our list for the link. Hope to see you then.

Thanks! I submitted this grant in May of 2024. Fingers crossed that you hear something soon.

Great news: just received the NOA for a K23 grant from NIMH!
This project will test whether brain stimulation (TMS) can target core symptoms of psychopathy, which are implicated in a substantial proportion violent acts nationwide.

The Open Science Room has been an exciting space at the OHBM Meeting for many years, but its future is threatened. Please sign this petition to signal your support for preserving a dedicated space for the OSR at future meetings. ohbm.github.io/osr2025/peti...

Happy to see Julio Peraza's lastest posted, "NiCLIP", using a CLIP model to improve 'reverse inference' prediction of task fMRI results based on peak coordinate data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @angielaird.bsky.social @neurozorro.bsky.social James Kent & JB Poline

🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨

A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.

This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Early Career Event 2025 - Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy The SSSP Early Career Event (ECE) Planning Committee is excited to announce the 2025 edition of the ECE, our biannual virtual conference dedicated to students and early career professionals in the field of psychopathy.

The SSSP Early Career Event (online) is just one week away and a program packed with new research on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits is waiting for you: check out the details and register to attend here: psychopathysociety.org/page/ECE2025

Happy to report this work was accepted for publication in the Journal of Affective Disorders and can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

How causal perspectives can inform problems in computational neuroscience Over the past two decades, considerable strides have been made in advancing neuroscience techniques, yet the translation of these advancements into clinically relevant insights for human mental health...

See our new preprint focused on causal thinking for data analysis in neuroscience #causal #neuroscience #neuroimaging #datascience #poldracklab with Brian Caffo, Maya Mathur, and @russpoldrack.bsky.social (1/4)

arxiv.org/abs/2503.10710

New publication with @juldugre.bsky.social finds that functional brain patterns implicated in executive functioning differentiate conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits.
t.co/6Bdz1IrtHW

GitHub - drewwint/pub_sssst_rct Contribute to drewwint/pub_sssst_rct development by creating an account on GitHub.

code/output/extras: github.com/drewwint/pub...

Can specific cognitive control functions differentiate CU traits from CP? Analysis of RCT data suggests CU traits associate with better performance during passive control (non-response) but worse performance during selective control. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Untangling the hairball using statistical inference – Tiago P. Peixoto Inverse Complexity Lab

"The seductive futility of network visualization"

skewed.de/lab/posts/ha...

The dark sides of the brain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies on trait aggression Aggression is a worldwide issue that has significant consequences for both the victims and societies. However, aggression may vary in its underlying m…

Great new review and meta analysis by @juldugre.bsky.social @drewwint.bsky.social showing that neural activity patterns differ between different types of aggressive behaviour correlates with implications for future research and potentially treatment: tinyurl.com/2ha4tn6m

Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆??
The debate continues. This time Niels Janssen writes a very interesting take on the issue (but I'm biased):
The thread below quotes part of the text:
#neuroscience
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/r28fp87m...

Your Black Plastic Utensils (Probably) Aren’t Killing You After All If you recently threw out your black plastic spatula, as several news articles urged us to do, you might want to see if you can dig it back out of the trash. They were based on a study whose most dram...

Fellow scientists: If you are going to make broad public pronouncements based on your results, please have someone check your math first. The general population is losing faith in science, and reversals like this are a big part of the problem.

Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding.

(E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?)

Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de

graph-tool.skewed.de

Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

#networkscience

Honored and excited to meet my fellow awardees next week!

hey -- i'm hiring a postdoc! the ad will be up shortly, but looking for someone with network neuroscience experience (very broadly). the position isn't tied to any specific project/grant, so lots of flexibility in terms of what you'd actually *do*. hmu if you might be interested/want to learn more!

Absolutely - an important context - thanks!

A new achievement unlocked - @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social just liked something I said about stats on BlueSky

Using theory-driven modeling – there is a reason for that interaction that was *hopefully* preregistered. Because the orthogonalized interaction doesn’t impact the direct effects, you can show your interaction hypothesis test but still connect with the literature by interpreting direct effects.

Extras including paradigm and analysis code can be found here: t.co/W3VUrumqHM

Are callous-unemotional (CU) traits purely affective, or do they also involve cognitive processes? A recent RCT finds CU traits uniquely linked to cognitive-affective interaction difficulties that also associated with antisocial behavior. doi.org/10.31234/osf...