A new theoretical model of persecutory delusions (severe paranoia) that explicitly shows what needs to happen in treatment. Includes how to introduce counterweights to the thoughts and behaviours that cause paranoia. Oxford ExpPsychology Oxford Psychiatry Cambridge UP - Psychology & Psychiatry cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Nature Prefrontal encoding of an internal model for emotional inference nature.com/articles/s4158…

How do we decide when to switch gears - when surrounded by uncertainty & control loss? 🧠Calling scientists in cog modeling & AI: Let’s connect at #RLDM2025 if you work on adaptive agents, meta-learning. Towards adaptive co-evolving human-AI systems: gingjehli.com/gearshiftfello…

Testing Feeling Safer — a six-month supported online programme for treating persecutory delusions. Protocol for the trial evaluating outcomes, moderation, mediation, and health economics: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e…

🚨Thrilled to share the Transdiagnostic Connectome Project, a new open dataset in Scientific Data! Holmes Lab Thomas Yeo Sidhant Chopra 🧠 fMRI + >50 behavioral measures 📊 241 participants across psychiatric diagnoses 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4159…

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the next few months to work on cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods. If you know anybody, please tell them to email me. Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

Patterns of autism symptoms: hidden structure in the ADOS and ADI-R instruments | Translational Psychiatry nature.com/articles/s4139…

🚀 Our GearshiftFellowship method paper introducing “Supertask” has been accepted in Springer LNCS! We propose a reconfigurable game environment to study adaptability in humans & AI. 🌍🧠 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya… #NeuroAI #MetaLearning Supertask isn’t just a game…

Good news: We have received another 5 years of funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, so we plan to hold ERP Boot Camps in each of the next 5 summers. erpinfo.org/summer-boot-ca…

📢 New preprint! How do humans learn from arbitrary, abstract goals? We show that, when goal spaces can be compressed, costly working-memory processes give way to internalized reward functions, enabling efficient goal-dependent RL. Anne Collins Collins Lab arxiv.org/abs/2509.06810

Heading to #AIplusX2025 in Zurich! 🚀 My focus: agentic AI × neuroscience x mental health. I’m building Gearshift Fellowship: an adaptive game platform to study adaptability + digital mental health. Let’s connect! #AgenticAI #AIforHealth #Neuro #AIXSUMMIT

🚨Out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. W/ Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social and Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 Thread ⬇️

Stochastic Gradient Descent

Best chapter ever

Uncertainty, Cognitive Control and Theta-Band Activity: A Relationship That Depends on Metacontrol Requirements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Social Utility Modeling: A Tool to Gain Insight Into Social Motives guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/so…

Great to see this out! Exciting work led by Shawn Rhoads on how we learn when actions affect ourselves and others 🧠 w/ Abigail Marsh, Katie O'Connell, Katie Berluti, Lin Gan plus Patricia Lockwood & me The Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Our work with Tolmachev Pavel is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence! The choice of activation function affects the representations, dynamics, and circuit solutions that emerge in RNNs trained on cognitive tasks. Activation matters! nature.com/articles/s4225…

As someone who studies the visual system of the human brain, I'm loving this. This is powerful evidence that biological vision, unlike computer vision, is driven by movements in the visual field. 😍 If you want to solve vision, understanding this truth is essential. Thanks for

Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding Opinion by Jacob A. Westerberg & Pieter R. Roelfsema (Pieter Roelfsema), tinyurl.com/4yntx8ak