I'm hiring a lab manager for my new lab at Northwestern! I will be accepting lab manager applications until the end of the month.

I'll be at SANS this week- reach out if you'd like to learn more about the lab!

Anxiety and depression might be related to increased, not decreased, exploration behaviour. What could be possible mechanisms underlying this?
Beyond thrilled to share my very first first-author preprint with Toby Wise Quentin Huys and Computational Principles of Intelligence Lab.
osf.io/preprints/psya…
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The CATS lab is hiring! We are looking for a lab manager to start in September. This is a full-time, in-person position at Northwestern University's Evanston campus. This is an ideal position to get experience for PhD programs. Come join us!

Apply here: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cz…

We are running a MRI study at Columbia, and looking for 11 and 13-year old participants! Participants earn $75 + bonus and get a picture of their brain! Parent permission is required.

Help us learn about the developing brain! Please RT!

Sign up here: cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4H…

At #ASSC26 and struggling to decide which session to go to later this afternoon? Plug for 'Richness of Consciousness' w/ an awesome line of speakers, closed out by Makaela Nartker and myself talking about what the inattentionally blind actually see... 🦍

Excited to share that my paper with Danique Jeurissen , Eric Trautmann, and Michael Shadlen is out in Neuron today! We used simultaneous recording/inactivation in the sup colliculus and LIP to uncover a mechanism in SC for terminating perceptual decisions. cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

In a new paper we motivated people (n = 3,364), to be more accurate by providing financial incentives for correct responses about the veracity of true + false political news.

We improved accuracy + reduced partisan bias in judgements of headlines by 30% nature.com/articles/s4156…

I'm excited to share that my paper on resource-rational task decomposition has been published in PLOS Computational Biology! 🎉🥳

TLDR: People break large tasks down into smaller ones by balancing efficiency and the computational cost of planning.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Please RT!! We will hold a free online interdisciplinary workshop on #MachineLearning and theory development on July 10-12 (three half days), with excellent speakers from psychology, neuroscience, sociology, cognitive science etc. Please register here.

ml-theory.com

We are seeking two individuals to join the team: a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (info: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/postdoc) and a full-time Research Assistant/Lab Manager (info: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/labman…). Come join an amazing community of scholars at UChicago Psychology & University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute!

Jonathan Najenson and I have set up a website for our International Memory Reading Group. Our mission is to promote dialogues about new memory research. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in joining and share widely:

sites.google.com/view/memoryrea…

Well, about four months later... DataPipe is ready!

pipe.jspsych.org

DataPipe lets you send data from an online experiment to the OSF. You can:

(1) Have born-open, transparent data collection (a la Rouder 2015)
(2) Host an online experiment for free.

Why should economic variables such as reward and effort affect movement vigor?
We developed a new paradigm to study the link between decision-making and vigor.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Here it comes! We show how replay can guide directed exploration, by extending the normative theory of hippocampal replay to include uncertainty.