Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with 🧠 decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry) @ the exciting Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry @WCHN_UCL

Science supports Bob Marley's claim that "one great thing about music" is "when it hits you, you feel no pain" - new work McGill University by Mathieu Roy, Darius Valevicius and others is getting lots of attention this week including this The Washington Post article: washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11…

was it....you , just now ?

Do we value choice for its intrinsic worth or for the control it offers us over our environment? When choices are decoupled from outcomes, our preference for choice is reduced 📢New from: Sean Devine, Kevin da Silva Castanheira, @smfleming, & Ross Otto sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are choices valued intrinsically or for the instrumental control they offer? New research with Sean Divine, @smfleming and Ross Otto suggests that decoupling the freedom to choose from the control it offers over your environment reduces preference for choice

Ah yes the Norman Mailer approach

found the worst bagel sandwich in montreal, anyone need details let me know

when do we 'go for it' (cognitively speaking) ? new work by Sean Devine with Mathieu Roy and Ulrik R. Beierholm finds evidence for Clark Hull's goal-gradient effects in human cognition psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

the loudspeaker at the picketing area of the ongoing TA strike is playing C.R.E.A.M.....really makes you think

American academic conferences: 8:15-10:00: Panel A 10:30-12:15: Panel B 13:45-15:30: Panel C 16:00-17:45: Panel D European academic conferences:

haha why would you call a conference this , like literally pick any other word

you said it

haha Research Rants Office

bro there's a heat wave, isn't ad tech supposed to be like, artificially intelligent or something

'brace yourselves' I think this is a cool result, happy to have been a part of this

Does learning context bias cognitive effort evaluations? A study with Sophie Desjardins and with Mathieu Roy (among others) suggests that effort evaluation, like everything else, "is all relative" link.springer.com/article/10.375…

I'm accepting a graduate student this application cycle (Clinical or Developmental)! Please share with anyone interested in studying the development of cultural risk and resilience processes among minoritized youth and families!

being fourth author on a seven author paper