
Robb Rutledge
@robbrutledge
Cognitive computational neuroscientist @Yale interested in decision making, happiness & mangosteens.
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https://rutledgelab.org 27-10-2013 09:53:16
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Where do the dopamine hits does from? A new reward center in the brain is discovered (yes, single cell, spatial omics at work again) Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…


Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with Sami Yousif Sam McDougle Robb Rutledge; osf.io/preprints/psya…


Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉Juan Del Toro, Ph.D. Chaz Firestone Ashley Watts Justin Minue Kim (M. Justin Kim) julia_a_leonard Mark Thornton Professor Gemma Sharp psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-feb-…



🚨 Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir Diana Tamir, and David Amodio David Amodio. 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!





Behavior and #dopamine responses track prospective, but not retrospective, contingency, which is explained by temporal difference (TD) learning models Lechen Qian Mark Burrell @naoshigeuchida MCB_Harvard nature.com/articles/s4159…

I am SO excited to share my latest #preprint with collaborators Robb Rutledge, zeb kurth-nelson, Martin Chadwick, summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind: "Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence" arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091 A short 🧵 1/7

Exciting new project led by Joey Heffner showing prediction errors can explain happiness in human-AI interactions. Builds off our recent work linking mood & language led by Jihyun K. Hur doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… If we want AI to increase well-being, we need to measure it.

I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Yale this fall with support from the NSF GRFP! I feel deeply grateful to be joining this community and to work with Robb Rutledge and the Rutledge lab!


📢 Early registration prices end tomorrow 15 April! 🚨 The 3rd Computational Psychiatry Conference is 14-16 July in Tübingen, Germany. cpconf.org Speakers inc. @PhilCorlett1 CharFraza Andreas Heinz Georgia Koppe Jill O'Reilly Chandra Sripada Sophie Valk tor wager





Our work with Pablo Tano , HyungGoo Kim Athar N Malik, MD, PhD Alexandre Pouget and Nao Uchida exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…