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Brian Knutson is a professor of psychology in Stanford's School or Humanities and Sciences, a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute affiliate, and a leader of the NeuroChoice Big Ideas in Neuroscience Initiative.

From Our Neurons to Yours, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University.

How can brain activity predict stock prices or viral videos?

In today’s podcast, Stanford neuroeconomist Brian Knutson explores how brain signals shape choice, risk, and attention—bridging neuroscience, psychology, and economics.

Listen now: neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neurofo...

Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation.

Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social

www.cell.com/current-biol...

How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.

Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help?

New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

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

Resolving temporal threat uncertainty by observational learning involves the amygdala, hippocampus and anterior insula While the neurobiological distinction between temporally predictable (cued) and unpredictable (contextual) threats has been well-characterized in direct learning using the NPU paradigm, it is poorly u...

Can we learn about unpredictable threats via observation of others? Yes, temporally predictable and unpredictable threats are learned by distinct contributions of the amygdala and hippocampus.
ALSO: We find higher activation in the amygdala and anterior insula to others' pain that serves learning.

Excited to try this! The waiting list makes me even more curious

Our new @frontiersin.bsky.social article focused on how learning strategies and #open-label-placebos (OLPs) can affect academic performance.

This study tested a subgroup and explored if e.g. learning strategies could impact the influence OLPs hold on cognitive outcomes.

What did we find? ⤵️

1st Sharp Lab preprint! 🚨 We tested how anxiety affects task generalization—not how people generalize threat stimuli, but how they reuse action-outcome structures when planning in new contexts.

Worry makes people avoid reusing actions that co-occurred w/ threat!
📄: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧵 1/12

Such a great summer school with time for science and everything around it.

Wirkstoff Mensch, besser könnte es zu unserer Forschung nicht passen! Hört mal rein!

Check out our new publication led by former member @clamassaccesi.bsky.social showing that individuals are equally motivated to incur effort costs to reduce pain to themselves and others 🤝

With @epronizius.bsky.social, @monabielig.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social, @protzko.bsky.social, Olena Vitkovska, and Celina Kacperski, we'll explore the ethical tensions, institutional constraints, and political risks of doing science across borders—especially in times of war or crisis.

Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social talks on neuromodulation of fear responses to kick-off our summerschool @rtg2753.bsky.social

Will do that! Its a really cool position. Hälsningar from Hamburg

Great opportunity!

Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others’ stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others’ stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma

Higher responses to observed (laboratory) stress is related to war related trauma (ptsd symptoms) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent opportunity! Inspiring research environment and Andreas is great.

Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…

Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits - Nature Communications Modulating deep brain structure can lead to therapies for neurological conditions. Here, the authors show a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) system featuring a 256-element helmet-shaped trans...

Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS?

UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes.

#neuroskyence #ultrasound

Blerg. Preregistration should elevate our understanding of the importance of exploration, not affirmative action our past bad habits that everything was always anticipated in advance.

Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

The cognitive side of communication in social insects Social insects rely on multiple communication channels. These channels have traditionally been considered innate, eliciting stereotyped responses. However, recent research has shown that cognitive modulation occurs in communication contexts long assumed to be entirely genetically encoded, thus revealing a previously unrecognized cognitive plasticity in social insect communication.

Online Now: The cognitive side of communication in social insects

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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

Experimental design and effects on peripheral arousal markers. Top left: Design was within-subject, double-blinded, randomized, and placebo-controlled (Materials and methods). Additionally, the stimulus-response mapping was counterbalanced within participants Bottom: Schematic sequence of events during the spatial contrast discrimination task (Materials and methods). Participants reported the location of the highest contrast Gabor patch (difference in contrast is high for illustration only). Top right: Heart rate and pupil size measured as the average across task blocks (Materials and methods), separately for placebo and atomoxetine sessions. Every connecting line is a participant; large data points in the middle are the group averages.

How do catecholamines like #noradrenaline influence perceptual #DecisionMaking? @degeelab.bsky.social @donnerlab.bsky.social &co show that higher #catecholamine levels reduce individual choice history biases by dampening bias in the accumulation of sensory evidence @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4mMmNNX

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