@pf-hitchcock.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Emory Psychology || Computational clinical science of depression and anxiety || translational-lab.com
The Two Faces of #PTSD: Fear vs. Emotional Pain. Our new research in Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social identifies distinct clinical & neural profiles.
AI says no one reads long papers, so we made an infographic!👇
Full Paper (for the insistents😉): doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Check out our new preprint, led by Romy Froemer and in collaboration with Chih-Chung Ting and Sebastian Gluth:
“Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”.
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Interested in a PhD looking at trajectories of repetitive negative thought using machine learning and computational modelling?
Take a look at our project in the @drivehealth.bsky.social portfolio and get in touch with any questions!
showcase.drive-health.org.uk/project/quan...
New preprint alert! (1/5)🌟
I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others.
Summary⬇
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🔥🔥SAVE THE DATE!!🔥🔥
Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org
@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social
See you in New Haven!
Just a quick reminder that applications for our new cross-lab PhD training model in cognitive science at Dartmouth are due Dec. 1. We're quite excited about this new approach, so please reach out if you have any questions!!
25.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0At #psynom25? Come to our posters today 6pm!
V-074 Reward restructures existing cognitive maps (Seoyoung Lee)
V-075 Neural representation of multi-attribute food choices in individuals with anorexia nervosa (Hannah Kim)
V-124 Reward-induced memory precision bias in semantic categories (Xinyue Li)
🎉🥂🔥🚀
21.11.2025 21:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
Really excited about this 5-year project starting, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, where we will combine ✨computational modelling✨ with causal intervention techniques such as ✨tFUS✨ to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of repetitive negative thoughts 🚀 led by @mikebrowning.bsky.social
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My lab members are presenting some awesome work at Psychonomics and SJDM in Denver! #psynom25 #sjdm25
We have posters and talks happening Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Come say hi!
We show that individuals with anxiety symptoms respond slower to changes of context (event boundaries) and they segment contexts (events) more precisely. We also asked people about preferences and experience with context changes in everyday life, which correlated with both anxiety and segmentation!
20.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
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There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS:
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
(or why does it hurt to think)
never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience
gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
Hi Chris, while we also found a WM + habit model could capture the learning phase in this task, it could not capture the test phase
drive.google.com/file/d/1q_0X...
(compare Supp. Fig. 6C to main text Fig. 3), whereas WM + RL could (as Anne also mentions in the discussion of her paper)
@andrewpapale.bsky.social 's new explore/exploit paper in JNeurosci with @vanessabrown.bsky.social @drangelaianni.bsky.social Michael Hallquist & Bea Luna: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
PFC-DMN and hippocampus encode value maxima in exploitation, but their synchronization peaks in exploration.
Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵)
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Reflecting the efforts of so many - most importantly our study participants who gave their time to help others - I'm thrilled to share the results of our RCT evaluating the effectiveness of the #SafetyPlanningIntervention for #SuicidePrevention in the year after jail release.
10.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
1/4 I’m super excited to share our latest PNAS paper: a 7T-fMRI study shows that functional connectivity between habenula and VTA in humans is associated with individual differences in negative learning bias, which further associates with higher anxiety and depression scores. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
10.11.2025 07:55 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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The Gearshift Fellowship R&D Core is expanding its technical capacity. 🔥We’re hiring a frontend engineer (HTML/JS/jsPsych) to help advance our research platform on adaptive intelligence 🧠👇
06.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🚀 We're hiring !
🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e
🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:
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