New paper! After working on that project for >5 years, our #RegisteredReport about #habits was published Collabra: Psychology: doi.org/10.1525/collab…. With 6 experimental tasks and 3 questionnaires, we dug into the measurement of habits in humans in the lab. 1/

🤔How do humans anticipate an opponent's moves in strategic games?

Excited to share our latest work at Economics at Zurich on #mentalization in strategic games
After 4+ yrs of rigorous work, we've empirically validated our new model, behaviorally (N~500) and neurally (N~100) 🧠 a 🧵 (1/5)

UZH maintains close ties with the World Health Organization. In a speech at UZH last week, the WHO’s chief scientist Sir Jeremy Farrar made an appeal for more social cohesion. For Farrar, universities have an important role to play here: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/ne…

Die neue Ausgabe unseres .inspired Magazins ist da - Schwerpunktthema: #Globalisierung

Wir wünschen Ihnen eine angenehme Lektüre, frohe Festtage und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr ! ☃️ 🥂

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In remembrance of Nobel Laureate Professor Harald zur Hausen, who passed away earlier this year, and his various participations in Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings #LINO18

Interested in doing a PhD using advanced neuroimaging and ML techniques to study how the brain stores and flexibly retrieves memories?

Check out this exciting opportunity jointly supervised by myself, Andrew Bagshaw & Karen Mullinger
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Short new paper: The ebb and flow of cognitive fatigue
authors.elsevier.com/a/1hwHP4sIRvPN… Trends in Cognitive Sciences

I spotlight the new findings by Julian Matthews Tanja Müller Matthew Apps et al. and I reflect on the current state of fatigue science.

🧵Little thread with the main points: (1/6)

Hivemind: I’m looking to hire someone to design conceptual figures for a paper. Familiarity with decision-making or motivation a plus, as I'm hoping to get input for conceptualizing rather than only design. Great (paid) opportunity for a trainee, but any suggestions welcome! 🖌️

Publication alert 📢 for a new paper in which we replicate and extend some of our previous findings 👇

Very happy to have been awarded an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship Swiss National Science Foundation to continue my research at the ZNE Economics at Zurich University of Zurich. Thank you to everyone who supported this application.

*Research Assistant* job(s) available jointly between Lei Zhang | 张磊 (@lei-zhang.bsky.social) & my Motivation & Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab in The Centre for Human Brain Health & School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Interested in decision-making, social learning or motivation? Want to run fMRI or behavioural studies? Ideal post for someone thinking of doing a PhD! jobs.ac.uk/job/CZY370/res…

🚨 Job alert 🚨

Romy Frömer and I are hiring a full-time research assistant The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Uni of Birmingham to work with fMRI, EEG, and MEG! The position is based in Birmingham, UK, and starts 01/08/2023, for one year. Apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…
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I had a nice conversation about fatigue and motivation and some of our recent research with BrainFacts.org; parts of this conversation resulted in this article for their Ask an Expert series:

Time for a short break? Watch this impressive and funny example of the stunning nature and wildlife on our planet. youtube.com/watch?v=rX40mB…

Mark Stokes (@stokesneuro) made a huge impact on this earth & will be sorely missed by us all. Thank you Kia Nobre for writing such a beautiful tribute, and our sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Read the tribute ➡️ bit.ly/3COVZHO

Come and join us! ;-)

Presenting some current research topics, methods and facilities to schoolchildren, together with other SNS Lab members, was great fun!

Are you interested in the interplay between information seeking and effort-based decision making (and fatigue)? Then you might find some answers and some future directions in our newly published study, together with Masud Husain & Matthew Apps! nature.com/articles/s4159… Scientific Reports

Excited to this study published today. What information do you seek first, the effort or the reward? Seeking one might mean you are less motivated than the other... nature.com/articles/s4159…