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Excited to share a review with Clay Holroyd. We discuss RL approaches to foraging behavior (and what the ACC might do), and we propose that a hierarchal RL mechanism implemented by ACC can give lights into the neural computations supporting foraging. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We have 3 amazing keynote talks planned during the conference, by Karin Roelofs Karin Roelofs, Soyoung Park @DecisionPark and Salvatore Aglioti SCNL - AgliotiLab 😀 Don't miss them ! escan2024.com/keynote-talks/

Banning #smartphones in over 400 schools led to: -decreased psychological symptoms among girls by 29% -decreased bullying by boys and girls by 43% -increased GPA among girls by .08 SDs Effects were larger for girls from low SES families openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bits…

🌎New preprint!🌍 osf.io/preprints/psya… There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change. But these actions are often more effortful. How can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Jointly led with L. Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Meta-reinforcement learning finally reconciles value, control and surprise. New preprint led by the very talented Tim Vriens and Massimo Silvetti with Giovanni Pezzulo and Gianluca Baldassarre

The Association of ERC Grantees joins and supports the appeal of the European Research Council (ERC) President Maria Leptin to vote for the European Parliament 👇These elections matter also for science! #EUelections

Job alert: Together with Jan Crusius and Emiel Cracco, I am looking for a PhD (75%; 3 years) on a DFG public | @[email protected] funded project on the topic of imitative behavior at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. The position starts in February 2025. leuphana.de/en/university/…

Our scientists are working to develop #implants in the #brain 🧠 that will allow blind people to see 👁👁 a little, for example a pattern of a streetcar or a cyclist. Jaap de Ruyter van Steveninck is helping with this development by using #AI and deep #learning: 👉 ru.nl/en/research/re…

Take a look at this fantastic international InMind special issue on the Olympic Mind! you can read articles in English, French, German, Dutch & Italian. Amazing effort by many InMind teams.

🧵1/5 (Partly) opposing roles of dopamine and acetylcholine (ACh) in cost-benefit decision making. New work, lead by (twitterless) Mani Erfanian Abdoust, and Monja Froböse out now PLOS Biology: plos.io/463uIik Psychology & Brain

A nice study led by Nicoleta Prutean

Meta-RL and dysfunction of the mesolimbic DA system in people with subclinical psychotic symptoms: a small step toward identifying psychosis vulnerability markers. Thanks to Damiano Terenzi, Raffaella Rumiati, and Marilena Aiello for making me part of it! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jV5%7E3HQGm…

The presence of spectators can make or break an athlete's performance. Discover the effects of social inhibition and tips to prevent choking under pressure in our new article by @IsoardGS, @DamienBrevers, @achalabaev #Olympics #Paris2024 in-mind.org/article/the-ro… In-Mind FR

I probably mentioned this to you before, but now it's statistically proven :-) Mental effort feels unpleasant across a wide wide range of tasks and circumstances. Work led by Louise David and @erikbij

Hard nadenken doet pijn: beste-id.nl/nieuws/hard-na… @erikbij Radboud University Eliana Vassena

Congratulations to the new dr Anneloes Hulsman! 👩🏻‍🎓Thank you Karin Roelofs and FK for the invitation to be part of the doctoral jury and BRAM Eliana Vassena Erno Hermans and Joke Baas for the interesting discussion and post-defense lunch! 🥂🍾👏 Radboud University

Superproud of Dr. ⁦Anneloes Hulsman⁩ who defended her thesis successfully🎓Thanks to ⁦Ann Meulders⁩ ⁦BRAM⁩ ⁦Eliana Vassena⁩ ⁦Erno Hermans⁩ Guillen Fernandez and Joke Baas for the nice discussions🎉! ⁦Radboud University⁩ NWO-MaGW⁩ ⁦

Resources, costs & Serotonin: an exciting perspective on Meta-Decision Making. I enjoyed co-writing this piece, led by @renee_cabbage, Bertalan Polner, with Roshan Cools' lab and Dr. Hanneke den Ouden (with extra thanks to Hanneke for initiating this) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A year ago I wrote that meta-RL captures #MedialPrefrontalCortex processing of #predictionerror, #DecisionMaking, and #CognitiveControl. I was wrong. It also captures #Foraging and #WorkingMemory. Thanks to all the authors. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…