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Immense modeling effort by Isaac Fradkin to explain free association as a decision process, wherein large numbers of potential associations compete for evidence

adolescents have a reputation of being moody - it was fun to think with Klara Gregorova Eran Eldar and Lorenz Deserno about how mood swings in adolescence might be explained with reinforcement learning -- new preprint here: psyarxiv.com/u62vr/ happy about any feedback!!

This work is officially out and free to download (for 50 days...) at authors.elsevier.com/c/1g9rfY3M3aQMt

🎉 New review article! 🎉 Computational models of subjective feelings can help us understand subjective psychiatric symptoms. By Chang-Hao Kao Gloria Feng Jihyun K. Hur Huw Jarvis in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews! doi.org/10.1016/j.neub…🧵👇1/n

1/5 New paper by @NGoldway, Catherine Hartley, Eran Eldar and Gal Shoval, out now in Biological Psychiatry. ​​The paper lays out a road map for how computational developmental psychiatry research can inform our understanding of addiction and anxiety authors.elsevier.com/c/1geko1S07qGtD

Can we use computational accounts of emotions to better understand emotional disturbances? In our new paper (doi.org/10.1007/s00213…), Eran Eldar and I expand the "emotions as computations" framework /1

@nessambrown , Aliona Tsypes , Tim Allen and I in close collaboration with Michael Hallquist, Aidan Wright and Eran Eldar are hiring research assistants:

הרפורמה/הפיכה היא אמצעי, לא מטרה. היא נועדה כדי להכשיר שלל חוקים ונהלים שיפגעו בחופש שלנו, בשיויון, ובמרקם החברתי. נשמע מופשט, אז ניתחנו את התוכניות של הקואליציה, כך שנוכל לראות מה צפוי לנו. בואו נראה איפה זה פוגש כל אחד ואחת מאיתנו. reform4me.co.il

A new Science paper found dopamine implements learning of *backward* predictions in rodents Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri. In 4 preregistered studies (n=1201), I and Eran Eldar find humans also learn these & adaptively switch their learning and planning direction 🧵(1/n) psyarxiv.com/wdbg4

delighted to feature this excellent work in #psynomCABN

We're hiring! A fully funded 2-year postdoc to study the computations we use to think, feel, learn, & plan. To find out more about our research, take a look at our webpage at sites.google.com/site/eldareran/, and feel free to contact me for further information. pic: view from campus

"objective models of subjective feelings" a short commetary written with Romane Cecchi about three amazing reviews recently published in NBR by Robb Rutledge, Eran Eldar Fabien Vinckier and their teams authors.elsevier.com/a/1h5bPY3M3eDs…

We need to understand subjective feelings better. Computational models can help. Great commentary by Stefano Palminteri (@stepalminteri.bsky.social) Romane Cecchi on three (!!) new reviews on models of subjective feelings in NBR inc. our own. A great intro to this exciting new field! authors.elsevier.com/a/1h5bPY3M3eDsg

ההתקפה על האקדמיה אינה מקרית. אקדמיה חופשית היא בלם למשטר שפועל לא לטובת הציבור אלא באופן שרירותי, לקידום אינטרסים אישיים ומגזריים קצרי טווח. זו הסיבה שאנשי האקדמיה מחויבים כל כך למאבק בהפיכה המשטרית. הסבר בטור שלי היום ב Ynetnews t.ly/dAiOl

The Israeli government's targeting of academia is not incidental. Free academy is an obstacle for regimes that operate in an arbitrary, tyrannical way, to promote personal and sectorial interests. More in my column today in Ynetnews t.ly/c6Kg7

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It was really fun to think about mood variability in adolescence and how it might arise from adolescent-specific Reinforcement Learning together with fantastic Klara Gregorova Eran Eldar Lorenz Deserno

🚨 I am thrilled to announce I will begin next fall as assistant professor of psychology Bar Ilan University!! We will model computations explaining how we plan & why we worry, among other things: see 🧵 below. Check out our website & get in touch if interested: sharplabbiu.github.io

Prediction is likely the most basic cognitive process, but we almost always think of it as applied forwards In some environments, though, it's more efficient to apply it backwards - estimating the actions that will likely precede a given outcome It turns out that's what we do👇