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…

#CalBigGive is live! Donate to support graduate students like Gaia Molinaro (Gaia Molinaro). She studies how people set and achieve complex goals, and how our brain enables these processes. Her work could lead to AI that learns and explores like humans. givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/767…

➡️Simply put – we suggest that the hedonic response to an event is related to the extent to which the event is perceived to progress the individual towards their subjectively constructed goal. 5/n

Considering RL homeostatic drive theories (A-C) and work on goals and RPEs in reward processes (Robb Rutledge Gaia Molinaro Giuseppe Castegnetti...), we reconceptualise subjective hedonic experience in terms of goal progress within a subjectively constructed belief structure (D-F). 5/n

New paper with Anne Collins introducing a modeling framework for noise fluctuations in decision-making. It can be applied to identify lapses of attention, limit the impact of noisy trials on model fit, and avoid excluding some “noisy” subjects. (1/4)

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New paper in Nature Human Behaviour!!!

Jonathan Sanching Tsay et al. collected over 2,000(!) sessions of data on a visuomotor rotation task and revealed new demographic constraints associated with processes underlying motor learning.

Check it out! 👇

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Wanna know why people persistently consume negatively valenced information even if it jeopardizes their well-being and mental health (a.k.a doomscrolling)? The answer in our pre-print with Gaia Molinaro and Tom Verguts osf.io/preprints/psya…

Instead of asking whether #AI systems are (super)intelligent or (half)conscious, maybe we should ask whether they are useful, inspiring, enlightning, pedagogical, beautiful, poetic or simply fun

I am recruiting PhD students & postdocs at Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor in #Psychology for fall 2024!

Looking for folks passionate about motor learning - the way we acquire, adapt, and retain skilled movements.

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1) Shared cortical activation modulated by political ideology (Nature Human Behaviour)

2) World’s human migration patterns, 2000–19

3) A goal-centric outlook on learning (@TrendsCognSci)

4) Historical redlining &…

Is reward really enough? Perhaps part of intelligence lies in choosing 'intelligent' goals - whatever that may mean. If true, goal selection could play a key role in the future of AI.

If you want to know why it’s hard for us to shift between different goals throughout the day, don’t miss this truly innovative theoretical and empirical approach to answering that question, spearheaded by Ivan Grahek and Jason Leng! 🎉🎉