Dr. Angelica Lim

A new study reveals what brain networks govern social mentalization and adaptation, making it possible to predict how flexibly one person reacts to others.
Published in @natneuro.nature.com

👉 www.econ.uzh.ch/en/news/rese...

Amazing! Thank you!!

Oh no, sad that I missed LeDoux's talk on emotion and consciousnes!
@cogneuronews.bsky.social any recordings? 🥹

"A key problem that predictive brains need to solve is setting the ‘balance’ between stubbornness and flexibility..." Yes!
A highly relevant talk now by Daniel Yon
#CNS2026

Oooh, I had missed the point about interaction. Very interesting! Thank you!

The Virtual Brain The Virtual Brain: Delivering practical results. For novel clinical applications.

I'm curious - I just attended The Virtual Brain workshop that models whole-brain dynamics down to low-level oscillatory dynamics, to be able to do intervention simulations. Compared to the ecology paper, what would be needed in addition? www.thevirtualbrain.org

This research is complex, resource-intensive, and currently underfunded. If you are a funder or organisation with a stake in how AI shapes human health and wellbeing, we would very much welcome a conversation.

New term: "AI-associated delusions" rather than AI psychosis, as hallucinations and disorganized thought are rarely reported

Excited to be at the Virtual Brain workshop at #CNS2026! Hosted by @sfuneuro.bsky.social @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information curation across nearly every domain. Within psychiatr...

Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies - The Lancet Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thank you!

Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK The emergence and evolution of delusions reflected a temporally extended, embodied, and cognitive–linguistic process characterised by an emotional transformation of the self and the world​ as a unifie...

Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK - The Lancet Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Potentially Harmful Consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbot Use Among Patients With Mental Illness: Early Data From a Large Psychiatric Service System Click on the article title to read more.

Potentially Harmful Consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbot Use Among Patients With Mental Illness: Early Data From a Large Psychiatric Service System - Wiley Online Library (Feb 6, 2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Which day is your talk? I will be there and would like to attend!

Last Friday, our "Women in AI Research" event brought together many talented young women! We were amazed by the level of discussion and project ideas the teams came up with!

Grateful to the organizers @petitegeek.bsky.social's Rosie Lab & #WiCS and our sponsors #WiCS & @wimlworkshop.bsky.social

Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act - Wikipedia

It looks like an act to ban social media companies from using infinite scroll was challenged for 'freedom' reasons. But even a "Hey. You've been using ChatGPT non-stop for 3 hours. Take a break?" would be good, no?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect...

High salt, sugar, fat. Canada now warns you about food we crave. Our bodies need these substances in moderate doses and they give short term satisfaction. But they're bad for our health in large quantities over long periods of time. Why not similar policies over what we crave emotionally?

"How do I know I'm not dreaming right now?" asks kiddo over breakfast.

Still convinced that kids ask the best questions. What would you answer?

SoftBank robot Pepper recognized by Guinness as 1st mass-produced humanoid SoftBank Robotics Corp.'s "Pepper" robot has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's first mass-produced humanoid service robot, the company said Monday.

Jerome Monceaux, who was my boss at SoftBank Robotics when we worked on Pepper, is way ahead with his new Miroki robot at enchanted tools. Has a catch built-in if ever the power fails. He is decades ahead, having led the teams on the first mass produced humanoid
english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/6...

I'm reminded of some episodes of pluribus 🫠

Ooh, thank you!

Orbitofrontal cortex, my new cortical area obsession. In the PFC, integrates emotion and decision-making. Necessary for VTA neurons to produce dopaminergic reward prediction error. Implicated in multiple psychiatric disorders. 🧐

Continuing a neurobiology course this Winter. Today I learned about Eric Kandel's Nobel prize winning work on modeling the neural learning system of the aplysia sea slug. From interaction, to molecules, to CREB for long-term learning, to behaviour -- absolutely fascinating!

Honestly, these questions from kids were better than ones I had from journalists.

...But as a scientist I can be curious about how we could describe emotions to the level of detail of an algorithm. And if we do that, we could help support research in mental health through computational modeling.

Agreed. Fun fact: I was just on CBC taking questions from kids. One of them furiously asked: We looked up your research. Why do you think robots with emotions or sentience would ever be a good idea? I replied, I don't think it's a good idea...

Inside the incredible, infuriating quest to explain consciousness Will brain science deliver answers about consciousness or hit another wall?

Prediction: In 10 years, “hardest problem” articles like this will shift from the challenge of ”C and perception“ to “C and emotions/mood“. The first is fascinating. The second is required to understand psychiatric functions & conditions.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Social Reasoning and the Ecology of Thought | IVADO

Social Reasoning and the Ecology of Thought ivado.ca/en/events/so...

This workshop looks neat -- anyone else here attending?

Individually the humans think they're performing mundane tasks and don't know how their actions contribute to a larger storyline.