“Normative processing needs multiple levels of explanation: from algorithm to implementation” psyarxiv.com/64kq5/. New commentary led by the amazing Todd Vogel. We discuss how to empirically test accounts of norm psychology, inspired by excellent work from Cecilia Heyes

Postdoc job Motivation & Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab, The Centre for Human Brain Health. Thanks to Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research, European Research Council (ERC), Jacobs Foundation & Wellcome funding a 2yr post (with possibility of extension) in decision neuroscience is open. Interested in brain imaging, modelling & fMRI? Apply! Deadline 22nd March jobs.ac.uk/job/CXV063/res…

“L-DOPA and oxytocin influence the neurocomputational mechanisms of self-benefitting and prosocial reinforcement learning” fun collaboration with Myrthe Jansen, Jo Cutler and Ellen de Bruijn now published in NeuroImage! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We're looking for a #PhD candidate! Interested in multimodal imaging (M/EEG+MRI/Anatomy), time series, stats and open software? Join us to extend neuronal oscillations methods towards research on brain health across the adult lifespan! Details & apply->findaphd.com/phds/project/o…

We (Margot Guéguen Todd Vogel, and I, The Centre for Human Brain Health) are @ the Nobel Symposium on The Social Brain, celebrating 50 years since the Nobel Prize for individual and social behaviour patterns. Amazing line up Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Valeria Gazzola Oriel FeldmanHall Weizhe Hong Catherine Dulac and many others!

Very excited to share this commentary written with Patricia Lockwood on predicting others' attention! 👀🎉

So excited to hear that our cross-disorder comparison of brain structure in youth (using ENIGMA Consortium data) has been selected as a Rising Star Showcase presentation! Thank you to all of our collaborators and to Society of Biological Psychiatry for this opportunity!

Just a reminder that I run another account Decision Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics Papers where I share links to recent decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics papers - in case that can be useful to someone. it's currently over 600+ papers over the last year and a half

🌟🌟 🌟 New fully funded 3.5 year PhD in Decision Neuroscience 🌟🌟🌟 join us at sdn-lab.org to study the neurocomputational mechanisms of social behaviour findaphd.com/phds/project/p…. Open to international students. Deadline 10th May. Please RT!

🌟🌟🌟Research Assistant/Lab manager position in sdn-lab.org 🌟🌟🌟Details and application here: tinyurl.com/RAsdnlab. We are looking for a new research assistant to join our team and contribute to projects on decision-making. Deadline 19th May. Please RT!

🌎New preprint!🌍 osf.io/preprints/psya… There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change. But these actions are often more effortful. How can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Jointly led with L. Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

“The more we uncover, the better equipped we will be to have a positive impact on children’s lives.” Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood talks with Annie Brookman-Byrne about her research on decision-making and the impact it might have on children. bold.expert/the-neuroscien…

Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation nature.com/articles/s4156… with Jo Cutler Sanjay Manohar + many others. We show multiple causal roles of vmPFC in prosocial motivation, effort and reward in a rare large cohort with focal vmPFC damage

How brain damage affects our willingness to help others - research briefing on our new manuscript with expert opinion from Sarah Tashjian 🙂 written with Jo Cutler nature.com/articles/s4156…

✨Very excited to share our new paper just out in JAACAP Open ✨ W/ Leonardo Bevilacqua Lucas Molleman Wouter van den Bos & others not on Twitter, we find that teenage boys with conduct problems (CP) have difficulty learning to cooperate with social partners. jaacapopen.org/article/S2949-…

Very cool new preprint by Jules using network mapping to help make sense of the seemingly conflicting fMRI findings in CD! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share a new preprint with Selma Lugtmeijer (she/her) and Prof. Matthew Apps! osf.io/preprints/psya… Our review synthesises recent findings to build a neuroeconomic framework of effort-based decisions The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham

A wonderful 3 days College of Life and Environmental Sciences School of Psychology, University of Birmingham The Centre for Human Brain Health joint with Leiden University for our Summer School in Computational Social Cognition. Amazing experience to meet so many bright minds from across the globe! & fantastic keynote speakers. Thanks everyone for all your contributions 🌟🧠

Amazing RA opportunity with a brilliant supervisor at Birmingham!

Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood wraps up Early Career Award talk British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience covering work on how and when we help by Margot Guéguen, Todd Vogel and others The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham