
Prof. Matthew Apps
@brain_apps
Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Head of @MSNlab. Motivation, decision-making & social cognition in human brains @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP @IMH_UoB
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Grateful to have received one of the British Academy/Leverhulme small grants with Jon Roiser 🟣 and twitter-less Essi Viding to examine explore/exploit decision-making as a transdiagnostic correlate of mental health problems!

🚨PhD position available in Cognitive Neuroscience / Computational Psychiatry with us Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin funded by DFG public | @[email protected] on mood-cognition interactions in depression, more infos here: karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacanci… Get in touch if you have questions about the position.

Our MindInMotion workshop happened yesterday tinyurl.com/yztc6z8d. Thank you to all delegates for the open cross-sector discussions on the future of neurorehab! John W. Krakauer Ulrike Hammerbeck Shinyi Chloe Chiou Tom Nightingale @GaleaLab and many others College of Life and Environmental Sciences N-CODE


It's OUT! 🥳My first (shared) first author paper with Kim Doell, Madalina, Jay Van Bavel, PhD and our 254 amazing collaborators is now published in Scientific Data Hope our dataset would be useful to many! Cant way to see the research that will come from it 🤩 nature.com/articles/s4159…


Our paper on the Affective Gradient Hypothesis is now out on Trends in Cognitive Sciences! 🧠➡️sciencedirect.com/science/articl… For a short summary of how this theory originated and what it proposes, see this 🧵: x.com/amitaishenhav/…

Do you struggle with the whole passion drive work narrative? Feel like not going “all in” means you won’t be taken seriously? You’re in good company. Check out my latest The Guardian piece on why it’s okay to not love your job.


New PhD scholarship opportunity for an exciting project on cognitive maps and causal inference! findaphd.com/phds/project/c… The project will have a fab supervisory team with Prof. Matthew Apps and Romy Frömer and will take place at The Centre for Human Brain Health and School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in Motivation & Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab, co-supervised by Romy Frömer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. tinyurl.com/543ucffd





Announcing the second 'Computational Social Cognition Summer School' Uni of Birmingham and Uni. Leiden. Keynotes from Diana Tamir, David Amodio & Matthew Rushworth, hands on tutorials and instruction from experts, and fun activities for a low price! compsoccog.com

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my Motivation & Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab, The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, co-supervised with Selma Lugtmeijer (she/her) & Simon Little. Deadline 23rd March. Unfortunately only open to UK candidates. More details here: findaphd.com/phds/project/p… Pls retweet.


Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the The Centre for Human Brain Health 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… please share

🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in Communications Psychology: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and Christian Ruff We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇