Our recent commentary on some thought-provoking work on punishment learning by Phil Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, Gavan McNally and others.

New #JNeurosci research from Trevor Chong, Fortunato, & Mark Bellgrove Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health Monash University confirms diminished motivation as a symptom of ADHD and suggests that the primary approved treatment for ADHD may effectively target this symptom.
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Do you like risk? 🎰💰
Here's how information (and info avoidance!) can be used to manipulate your preferences.

Our paper published Psychonomic Society w/ Patrick Cooper is on Bluesky, Mastadon Stefan Bode Trevor Chong @MonashCogNeuro

A pleasure to work with this dream team! 🧵link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Feeling drained? Let's talk about fatigue and motivation.
Our paper is now published Cognition w/ Andrea Pisauro Mindaugas K. Jurgelis Tanja Müller Eliana Vassena Trevor Chong Matthew Apps. A worldwide collab studying an intimate sensation
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🚨 Postdoc and PhD opportunities!🚨
Come work with us @yale!

Are you interested in computational models of mood and behavior? We apply models to large smartphone samples happinessquest.app inc. depression & Parkinson's, many w/ 🧠 brain scans. rutledgelab.org/join

Bridging information demand, visual attention, effort and free energy? Thanks to the collaboration with Jackie Gottlieb’s lab, we propose a brand new perspective under the hat of meta-RL.
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Final published version of our paper 'Effort reinforces learning' out now in #JNeurosci ! jneurosci.org/content/42/40/…

I've put together this short video to introduce it - do let me know if you think this type of conceptual 'explainer' works! #AcademicChatter tinyurl.com/wdn4xdhr

I am looking for a PhD student to work on a project involving vision, objects, and brains! At The MARCS Institute in Sydney. My DMs are open, feel free to send me any questions.
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'Success is dependent on effort.'

Was Sophocles right?

Huw Jarvis checks this out in the first empirical paper from his PhD.

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Excited to share the first empirical paper of my PhD! Out this week in #JNeurosci SfN Journals

🧵1/7 We sought to clarify the effect of effort on learning using computational modelling of choice behaviour in a reinforcement learning paradigm.

(1/12) Our laboratory would like to share results that represent important & non-incremental advances in the neurobiology of decision making and curiosity. Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin and Yang-Yang Feng et al. present this rather enormous effort.

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Applications for our computational post doc position close in 3 days, i.e. July 15th

Today we're talking exercise and the brain Australasian Brain & Psychological Sciences Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society

🚨New paper: Motivation directs↖️ and energizes🚀 information-seeking Nature Communications

w/ Caroline Marvin, Camilla van Geen, Maya Leshkowitz, Ran Hassin Daphna Shohamy

how data from early in the pandemic helped us relate basic theory to behavior; a 🧵 1/

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Should I stay or should I go? What a computational model of exploration / exploitation can tell us about decision-making in people with methamphetamine use disorder onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

For all reinforcement learning and decision making lovers, note this Abstract Call rldm.org/call-for-abstr… for #RLDM2022 . Hope to see you at Brown in Providence in June!

Excited to share our recent work, now published in Hippocampus, exploring associations between exercise and hippocampal integrity in young & middle-aged adults. We show that ⬆️ fitness and exercise levels are associated w/ ⬆️ hippocampal structure & memory bit.ly/3qSBN2b

Why the next generation of UK clinician scientists is under threat.

New Editorial in BRAIN academic.oup.com/brain/article/…

Annual reminder!!!!