Center for Computational Psychiatry

✨For our next CCP Speaker Series Speaker, we are thrilled to welcome @sarahfineberg.bsky.social next Friday, 3/13, at 1pm EST.

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As we argued in earlier work, we can benefit from extending tasks to more naturalistic settings.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

This paper takes a step toward that broader goal by integrating RL, perceptual inference, and decision dynamics in VR.

The project started pre-Covid, so it’s especially exciting to finally see it in print. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators who made this possible: Bas van Opheusden, @fredcallaway.bsky.social, @cocoscilab.bsky.social and James Hillis.

Paper here:
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Where you look next isn’t arbitrary.
In our new paper, we model human eye movements in immersive visual search as reinforcement learning under cognitive constraints. 🧵

Home | SINC LAB SOCIAL INTERACTION &<br>NEURAL COMPUTATION LAB. The Social Interaction & Neural Computation Lab examines the neural and computational basis of social cognition and interaction. We are particularly int...

Thrilled to be at #ACNP2026 this week! 🏝️😎

If you are interested in computational modeling of social cognition for mental health, I'd love to connect and nerd out!

Also excited to share the latest from my new Social Interaction & Neural Computation Lab: sinclaboratory.com

✨For our next CCP Speaker Series Speaker, we are thrilled to welcome @atsypes.bsky.social next Friday, 1/16, at 1pm EST.

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Discovery Research The BD² Discovery Grants are the cornerstone of our hypothesis-driven, cross-disciplinary program to improve understanding of the biological mechanisms of bipolar disorder.

🚀 Huge congrats to @angelaradulescu.bsky.social
on being part of the Mount Sinai team awarded a @bipolardiscoveries.org grant to study the neural mechanisms behind mood state transitions and drive new discoveries in bipolar disorder biology! 🧠
👉Read more: www.bipolardiscoveries.org/our-work/dis...

👉Up next, we are excited to welcome @sbe.bsky.social for our next CCP Speaker Series talk! Join us THIS FRIDAY, December 5th, at 1pm EST

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📣We are excited to welcome @rssmith.bsky.social for our next CCP Speaker Series talk! Join us TODAY, November 21st, at 1pm EDT

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And here are some photos from our awesome participants' projects! #NYCPW2025

That’s a wrap on #NYCPW2025! Huge thank you to our instructors and incredible participants for an inspiring, engaging, and energizing three days. Your curiosity and collaboration made this workshop a success. 🙌🧠✨

👉 Saren Seeley continues our Day 3 with a discussion on Study Design & Replicability #NYCPW2025

@lauraaberner.bsky.social started Day 3 of #NYCPW2025 by helping the group map out their own clinically relevant questions in computational psychiatry. 🧭 🧠

💭Closing out Day 2 of #NYCPW2025 with Ülgen Kılıç's talk on Network Theory in Psychiatry and some hands-on project work! 🙌

Next up, @bshev.bsky.social inspired some group discussion on Drift Diffusion modeling during #NYCPW2025 Day 2!🗣️📊

☀️ Good morning #NYCPW2025 Day 2! @shawnrhoadsphd.com starting strong with a tutorial on fitting computational models to behavioral data!

Wrapping up Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with @neurokim.bsky.social using LLMs for cognitive model discovery. Excited to end the day with some project brainstorming! 💡🧠

📣Up next at the 2025 New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop: @vincgfiore.bsky.social on Bayesian Inference! #NYCPW2025 📊

🙌 @angelaradulescu.bsky.social kicking off Day 1 of #NYCPW2025 with a tutorial on Reinforcement Learning!

How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others?

New work by @shawnrhoadsphd.com, @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @drjocutler.bsky.social, et al. in @natcomms.nature.com reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning

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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others - Nature Communications When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial, mutually costly, altruistic,...

Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else?
@shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications 👉
nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see this out! Exciting work led by @shawnrhoadsphd.com on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠

w/ @aa-marsh.bsky.social, @k-oconnell.com, Kathryn Berluti, & Lin Gan plus @thepsychologist.bsky.social & me @sdnl.bsky.social, @thechbh.bsky.social, @uob-sop.bsky.social

Many prosocial & antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves & others. In order to guide future choices, how do people learn that their behavior has resulted in benefits/harm to themselves and/or someone else? @shawnrhoadsphd.com Nature Communications
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...

Must-read #NYBCI25 coverage by @neurotechnology.substack.com in @forbes.com.

My key takeaway on cognitive BCI: Our biggest limiting factor isn't tech—it's fundamental scientific understanding.

We can’t advance the tech until we define the disorder. Basic research must lead the way!

Thrilled to be part of this fantastic new project led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and supported by @bipolardiscoveries.org. Grateful to collaborate with an outstanding team — Dr. Helen Mayberg, Dr. James Murrough and others — and looking forward to the work ahead!

For those heading to #SfN25, come check out our posters on Saturday Afternoon! The lab is growing & expanding in several new directions & collabs #neuroeconomics 🧠🐭🧠 @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sfn.org @socforneuroecon.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social @animalsocaging.bsky.social

📢For our first Speaker Series this semester, Dr. Herman Cappelen will be presenting his talk titled, "The Emotional Life of AI Companions" NEXT WEEK!🙌

When: Monday, November 3, at 1pm EDT
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For more info: hermancappelen.net

PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com

Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly

🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

⌛️ Only 3 days left to apply for the New York Computational Psychiatry Workshop (Nov 10–12)! Don’t miss your chance to learn about methods in computational psychiatry. Apply now!

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