Exciting new work from Rudebeck Lab out today in Neuron! Fred M Stoll uses monkeys' preferences to reveal dissociable valuation systems within prefrontal-limbic circuits

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I recently gave a series of four lectures on #philosophy and #neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Each lecture builds upon the previous ones. Here is the first lecture, 'Three Lessons about Emotion.' youtube.com/watch?v=4Q91hz…

Very excited our study on how goals shape choice is out now in Nature Human Behaviour with Nils Kolling Jan Sanjay Manohar and Jill O'Reilly! nature.com/articles/s4156…

New paper in Nature Communications Nature Communications on how the brain makes decisions in uncertain social settings (with Jean-Claude Dreher, Daeyeol Lee, and other collaborators) #brain #fMRI
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I’m excited to share a new, long-in-the-making, theoretical perspective piece, written with Catherine Hartley in Nature Reviews Psychology. Here, we explore how models of meta-learning may inform our understanding of the developmental process.

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Learning the value of experience

New scientific commentary by Campbell Le Heron & Trevor TJ Chong tinyurl.com/y9r843v7

Finally out in Nature Communications!

Great team effort with Elsa Fouragnan

In this new work we show that cardiac fluctuations can influence learning-related internal representations

nature.com/articles/s4146…

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A nice collection of thoughts by some of the many people who got to know Danny Kahneman over the years.

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons behavioralscientist.org/remembering-da… via Behavioral Scientist

The brand new AZA Lab website is live! 🎉

Excited to share the new home for our work at Yale University & Howard University on music, mindfulness & psychedelics for mental health 🧠

Want to join our studies or team? See how you can make an impact: azalab.org

Researchers 📢: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is looking to fund research that tests the validation and feasibility of objective, easy-to-use, and widely accessible tools for predicting response to depression treatments at the level of the individual. Learn more: go.nih.gov/wFglsmI

Quick, what have we learned from the BRAIN Initiative? One sentence or less please.

'Mood disorders are psychological, not biological.' What does that even mean? In my new piece for The Transmitter, I lay out not just this but 5 clusters of positions around what mood and mood disorders are (and how to best move forward).

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In 2010, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) introduced the Research Domain Criteria framework (@NIMH_RDoC), a bold new approach to the study of mental disorders. Read our feature story about the evolution and future of RDoC: go.nih.gov/Or8NVZV

On Danny Kahneman and 'angry science.' Samantha Power Arabella Pike Barack Obama John Tasioulas Richard H Thaler Piper Perabo Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 Liam Delaney 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 affective.brain Stephen E. Sachs Mia Farrow 🏳️‍🌈 🌻🇺🇸💙
nytimes.com/2024/04/01/opi…

New paper coming out in The BJPS: 'Validity drifts in psychiatric research'. The paper is about measurement validity. I develop the notion of 'validity drift' and apply it to psychiatric research on depression, and fear and anxiety disorders. philpapers.org/rec/MICVDI

New review in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: observed 'irrationalities' emerge from the cost-benefit tradeoff faced by our brain functions: being perfect at information processing is too costly, instead, they are as good as possible.
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Not an April Fools prank, the data are really that cool - check the update to our project characterizing how dopamine neuron mediated learning engages striatal dopamine signaling heterogeneity biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive and affective perception, but how does this work? Pleased to share our latest study, led by Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechansims using computational modeling! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵👇

Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain! Our new study reveals how perceptions of pain can emerge from the interplay between thermal sensations, expectations, and uncertainty. Check out our thread for all the details! 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/2 Our brilliant colleague Kirby Nielsen (AsstProf 2020) just got promoted to tenured Full Prof, 2y ahead of schedule. Here's a hint about why:
1. she writes *perfect* haikus describing papers. That is *not easy*
2. Three AEA Journals AER papers in 2 years. Different topics.