Why emotion research is stuckโand how to move it forward
Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.
My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forwardโby focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...
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Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
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Emotions are reactions to situations we encounter in daily life. In our new paper in Psych Review (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...; with @oisinryan.bsky.social and @fdabl.bsky.social), we take a first step towards building a generative model for emotion dynamics based on this simple principle 1/4
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Psychology PhD student at UC San Diego, interested in what younger and older humans think about care and protection. Also a meerkat enthusiast.
https://sites.google.com/view/rtompkins/
Professor of cognitive science, Aarhus University.
-Language, cognition & brain
-Inner speech, mood & physiology
-Sex/gender, language & brain
Try to do interesting things and not be too annoying.
I post mainly about Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Complex Systems, or Stats papers.
Working on neural learning /w @auksz.bsky.social CCNB/BCCN/Free University Berlin.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
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Research Assistant Professor at UNC Psych & Neuro/Winston Center | Brains, Media-use, and Messy Feelings
anthonygvaccaro.com
Cognitive scientist at Princeton, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English ๐ต๐ท
PhD student @ UC San Diego | she/her
https://lena-kemmelmeier.github.io/
https://www.vislearnlab.org/
comp neuro, neural manifolds, neuroAI, physics of learning
assistant professor @ harvard (physics, center for brain science, kempner institute) + @ Flatiron Institute
https://www.sychung.org
Developmental psych & cog neuro, studying how babies and kids make sense of and learn from their social world. Asst Prof @ UCSD. she/her
Interested in how we learn to derive visual meaning. Asst. Prof. at UCSD Psych. Mom x2, open science advocate. She/her.
brialong.com | vislearnlab.org
principal sciolist. mostly made of ice cream
Assoc Prof at UC San Diego, exploring the mind & its origins. Cognitive development, social cognition, music cognition, open science, all of interest. http://madlab.ucsd.edu
Now: Psychology PhD student @UCSD
Previously: Postbacc in Turk-Browne Lab and LLAMB Lab @Yale
Lab Manager at UCSD Psych (he/him)
studying cognitive dynamics and how the brain computes | postdoc-ing at WashU CTCN
https://hyssong.github.io/
An aesthetician who loves photography, architecture and gardening.
Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at USC
Communications Psychology is a selective, peer reviewed, open access journal in the @natureportfolio.bsky.social, publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary across psychology.
https://www.nature.com/commspsychol/