Excited to share a new preprint! We found that habits guide how people select and implement goals. Many thanks to my coauthors Michael Waskom Kerry Nix and Mark D'Esposito osf.io/63aqz/

In a NEW PAPER out today Nature Human Behaviour we show that some of the most popular strategies for increasing happiness are not well-supported by rigorous scientific evidence. A thread. x.com/natureportfoli…

[preprint alert 🚨 link below] How do we search for elements within a cognitive map? How does the brain perform search, are elements reactivated in sequence or simultaneously? We set out to answer this question using MEG and decoding. doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… (1/7)

Preprint alert🚨! In this new paper we study how humans decompose dynamical subprocesses and leverage the abstracted subprocesses for compositional reuse of experience in new situations. psyarxiv.com/sxn4a/ Tweeprint to follow soon!

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🌟New paper online in Trends in Cognitive Sciences with Angela Radulescu & Kara Emery 🌟 We review work taking an approach we refer to as "naturalistic reinforcement learning", which uses more naturalistic approaches to study learning and decision-making. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What are the challenges of computational phenotyping in cognition? Here our new preprint comparing stability and reliability across different types of measures with Anis Najar, Lemogne, Mael Lebreton & Stefano Palminteri

Very interesting work showing quite low test-retest reliability in a very common reward learning task, with relevance for computational psychiatry. It suggests, as other research has hinted, that feedback learning tasks – with rapid & massed repetitions – may not be useful.

Four (!) new @UCL postdoc positions open for superexciting computational psychiatry study combining cutting-edge computational methods with two(!) large RCTs to test whether different antidepressants treat depression via different RL mechanisms tinyurl.com/mr43c29h. Please RT.

📣Exciting RA position with Quentin Huys and our wonderful Applied Computational Psychiatry lab UCL Psychiatry Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry!📣 Work on a longitudinal study examining the processes engaged by psychotherapy in the NHS: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… Apply and share!

We’ve all heard of place cells: neurons that form a “cognitive map” representing the structure of the outside world. But what about our own structured behaviours? We took a deep mechanistic dive, out now on bioRxiv : biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵below:

Postdoc in our lab! Last day to apply! Please apply if interested, don’t worry about supporting docs or anything. (Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)