Excited to announce our new work finding that individual differences in predictive learning (e.g. Successor Representations) show a strong relationship with hierarchical abstraction during decision making, now out in PLOS Comp Biol! Read on👇or visit doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Our short opinion paper (with Tom Verguts) is accepted by Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ilsC8MqMiqW… Here, we argue that human learning and decision making requires hierarchy and modularity. However, this comes with several computational challenges.

Excited to share a review with Clay Holroyd. We discuss RL approaches to foraging behavior (and what the ACC might do), and we propose that a hierarchal RL mechanism implemented by ACC can give lights into the neural computations supporting foraging. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are offering a 4-year PhD student position! Funded by an FWO research grant, this project will contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms through which individuals can resist immoral orders from an authority. >>moralsocialbrain.com/current-vacanc… Ghent Center for Cognitive Neuroscience UGent

We're looking for a new PhD student to come and work with us on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning! Deadline April 26th. For more information, please see users.ugent.be/~sbraem/. Ghent Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Dynamic changes in task preparation in a multi-task environment: The task transformation paradigm 📢New from: Mengqiao Chai, Clay B. Holroyd, Marcel Brass, & Senne Braem sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our meta-analyses, using computational models to investigate shifts in learning strategies across learning environments is now finally out in Psychological Review (doi.org/10.1037/rev000…)

Now out in European Journal of Neuroscience! We use EEG frequency tagging to study the role of Gestalt principles in the processing of biological group movements and find that especially synchrony is important, but only for upright (not inverted) movements. w/ Liuba Papeo and Roeljan Wiersema.

Dear ESCAN attendees, Please find the final program at a glance and the full booklet here: escan2024.com/conference-pro…

#PhDposition Opening in Our Social & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Prof. Lara Bardi 😇 Get in touch If you are interested in joining us!!

A few weeks ago Eelke Spaak 🦋 @EelkeSpaak.bsky.social Michael D Nunez and Romy Frömer came to Ghent to talk about Single-trial EEG analyses. This EEG newsletter tinyurl.com/4vhd32hm is all about single-trial EEG, with video's of their excellent talks ánd a bonus video with Jelmer Borst 📽️

I've already received the first flattering spam emails about my latest paper, so it's time to share this GROUNDBREAKING ACHIEVEMENT! 'Reward cues are liked first, wanted later' 😏: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jRYf2Hx2xL6t 🧵👇:

New in Cognitive Psychology, from Leslie Held, Luc Vermeylen, Ruth Krebs, Wim Notebaert, and Senne Braem: The Effects of Reinforcing Task Alternations on Voluntary Task Selection doi.org/10.1525/collab…

📰New paper out with eleonore smalle. doi.org/10.1016/j.cort… 🧒🧑 We compared children aged 7 to 12 years vs. young adults on a speech segmentation task that disentangled explicit and implicit contributions to learning.

New TiCS paper out 🎉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Are all conflicts the same? Can we use insights from Stroop task performance to study/understand self-control or even moral conflict resolution (and vice versa)? 1/7

It was exciting to try and help think about a common framework with colleagues from cog control, decision making, self control, social and moral cognition, initiated and led by Daniela Becker & David Dignath. I learned a lot! Now summarized in this paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jYkA4sIRvTB…

This research has just been published with Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition. Read here: rdcu.be/dSi8f. Many thanks to my co-authors for their great work and support Shengjie Xu, Tom Verguts and Senne Braem.

📚 Exciting news! 🎉 "Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience" by Emilie Caspar is now on display at Cambridge University Press Bookshop! Swing by to check it out or order your copy online today. cambridge.org/us/universityp…

I've been recommending this review by Tobias Egner to many: nature.com/articles/s4415…. It's a great overview on task control research, summarizing several interesting insights! However, w/ Gesine Dreisbach and Sebastian Musslick, we disagreed with one conclusion: nature.com/articles/s4415… (1/7)

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