Aaron Batista

Social status as a latent variable in the amygdala of observers of social interactions Third-party viewers of pairwise dominant-subordinate interactions infer social status from the observed behaviors. Neurons in the amygdala are tuned to the inferred dominant/subordinate status of both...

And you thought your amygdala was just for fear. It turns out to have a nuanced emotional repertoire, always monitoring our context.

www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

My happy place is that “or otherwise”.

This is great, Andrew. I agree with that. I look forward to reading the whole story.

Thanks Nicole! And all. Feels nice already to be here.

Andrew, this makes me wonder a few things. Honest curiosity, not fishing for any particular answer:

1) Do you think peer review improves a paper (clarity, rigor, whatever)?
2) Does the *journal* in which a paper appears impact your perception of the work?
3) Do journals provide value anymore?

Literally just did :) I went to make my second tweet ever, discovered that Twitter had morphed into a cesspool called X, had to unmute dozens of toxic threads, including bizarre and unsettling posts from Twitter's new owner, and luckily Juan Gallego's post directing us here was in my thread.

Literally just did :)

A neural basis of choking under pressure Incentives tend to drive improvements in performance. But when incentives get too high, we can “choke under pressure” and underperform right when it m…

When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide an explanation: Exceptionally high stakes interfere with the neural signals of motor preparation. I'd love to hear - what do you think causes it?
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