Do recurrent neural networks use directed exploration to solve restless bandit problems? Our (Deniz Tuzsus Ioannis Pappas Jan Peters) answer: no. Psychology & Brain biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Elsevier is losing editors

New bioRxiv: a signature of directed #exploration in data from the two-step task, widely used in #ComputationalPsychiatry: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Job alert 🚨we have an opening for a PhD position in cognitive/computational neuroscience, application deadline June 22nd. Psychology & Brain @CogNeuroJobs please RT

Good morning #PuG2023 - quick reminder that we have an open PhD student position - get in touch if you want to chat. 👇

Hello fellow #OpenScience enthusiast! 👋 We are IGOR, a Psychology & Brain interest group. We bring open reproducible science to biological psychology & neuropsychology in Germany and beyond 🧠 Speakers: Gordon Feld 🙋 & Dr. Helena Hartmann 🙋‍♀️ Send us an email if you want to join! 📨

Looking forward to showing some of the exciting stuff that David Mathar, Angela M. Brands and Deniz Tuzsus (with Ioannis Pappas) have been working on!

Highly recommended 👇

Come join us in Cologne!

Reminder for this🚨job alert🚨: Come work on the human projects of our Universität zu Köln Emerging Group, including computational cognitive neuroscience projects with @tittgemeyer, PetersLab and @koeniglab. Psychology & Brain jobs-uk-koeln.de/index.php?ac=j…

Recently spotted: ads for instant lotteries (18+) by WestLotto in a video game (mainly) for kids. #Gambling

Happy to report that @KilianKnauth made it into the first issue of Imaging Neuroscience 🥳 We show that upregulation of reward circuits is insufficient to drive increases in temporal discounting. Psychology & Brain

Near-misses and losses-disguised-as-wins are prominent design features in multi-line electronic #gambling machines (EGMs). In a short comment, I describe two more (understudied) features... psyarxiv.com/wkb9p

Great to see this published 🥳

The lab's work on reinforcement learning drift diffusion modeling in #gambling disorder by Antonius Wiehler and Jan Peters was recently published in Computational Psychiatry Psychology & Brain : cpsyjournal.org/articles/10.53…

The lab's work on the #reliability of ambulatory physiological measures during urban mobility is out as a bioRxiv Psychology & Brain : biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New work from the lab on meta #reinforcement #learning and #exploration #RL in RNNs: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our first RNN modeling paper on #exploration during RL is now out in Computational Brain & Behavior: link.springer.com/article/10.100…