The terminology used in discussions on mental state attribution is extensive & lacks consistency. Here, experts from various disciplines collaborate to introduce a shared set of concepts & make recommendations regarding future use.Ian Apperly Simon Baron-Cohen nature.com/articles/s4427…

🌟🌟 🌟 New fully funded 3.5 year PhD in Decision Neuroscience 🌟🌟🌟 join us at sdn-lab.org to study the neurocomputational mechanisms of social behaviour findaphd.com/phds/project/p…. Open to international students. Deadline 10th May. Please RT!

Another PhD studentship is open for applications via CENTRE-UB, this time with Katrien Segaert 👇

Adventures of the Brain: What the brain does and how it works - my book now on Amazon! amzn.eu/d/gjbpSrU

New PhD studentship CENTRE-UB with our Gerald Jordan, PhD, see the link for application details 👇

Excited and honoured to be promoted to full Professor of Decision Neuroscience. Extremely grateful to all the many many people who helped me do this (students, colleagues, collaborators, mentors) & UCL Experimental Psychology Oxford ExpPsychology The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham for their training and support along the way.

A full lecture room at the start of the #s4sn2024 meeting this morning

Social neuroscientists from all over the world have convened at our largest yet meeting

We start by honouring the memory of Larry Young, a society founder & all-round wonderful person who sadly passed away

Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! There still plenty to do in the neurosciences and beyond as recommended by ALBA Network, but we are heading in the right direction The Centre for Human Brain Health.

⭐️One week left to apply!!⭐️Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition will take place on the beautiful Uni of Birmingham campus 15th-17th July compsoccog.com. Fantastic set of speakers & instructors inc. Wolfram Schultz Cecilia Heyes Christian Ruff.

BACN British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience will be London 10-11 September. 6 symposia, 2 prize winner lectures, 1 keynote address, registration starting from £90 for two days including lunch. Get ready to submit your abstracts for talks or posters by 22nd April bacn.co.uk/conferences

🚨New paper alert🚨In this Perspective, we propose a holistic approach to studying social emotions, which emphasizes the integration of the adaptive goals of a social emotion, formal modelling of its underlying cognitive operations, and measures of its biological implementation.

🚨 New postdoc position in my lab 🚨
We are looking for a postdoc who is broadly interested in social cognition and social behaviour. Lots of flexibility to come up with new exciting projects:
edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL 🚨

Just over 3 weeks left to apply for the first Summer School in Computational Social Cognition in Birmingham, 15th-17th July 2024

Our keynote speakers: Cecilia Heyes, Christian Ruff, and Wolfram Schultz.

Please apply (compsoccog.com) and RT!

Most standard MEG systems have gradiometers rather than magnetometers to suppress distant noise sources. Our team The Centre for Human Brain Health therefore developed an Optically Pumped Magnetic Gradiometer measuring human brain activity while suppressing e.g. lift artefacts
arxiv.org/abs/2402.10113

Moral learning and decision-making across the lifespan osf.io/preprints/psya… Excited to share our new preprint with Wouter van den Bos & Jean-Claude Dreher. We review evidence from infancy to old age in light of 4 key aspects of morality within a value-based decision-making framework.

We are hiring!

If you hold a PhD in Psychology or a related field and are interested in a career in editorial, we want to hear from you:
careers.springernature.com/job-invite/498…

We are looking for a new team member to champion our cognitive and clinical content.

Ultrasound technician position The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences (0.5FTE, 12 months initially) to support the establishment of our new MRI-compatible focused ultrasound stimulation system (funded by MRC). Deadline 25th Feb with start date in March: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Really happy to share our new paper, just out in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

w/ Patricia Lockwood Jo Cutler Matthew Apps & others not on Twitter, we found that adolescent boys with conduct problems and high callous-unemotional (CU) traits demonstrate notably reduced effort to help others

Lucky to play a small part in this study testing the impact of different interventions on pro-environmental beliefs and behaviour. Follow up behavioural experiment in 6 countries hopefully out soon! 👇

“Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence” new pre-print led by brilliant PhD student Zhilin Su | 蘇致霖 and fun collaboration with many others! Inc. Mona Garvert Lei Zhang | 张磊 Matthew Apps Todd Vogel Sanjay Manohar Masud Husain osf.io/preprints/psya…