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Latest in our series on unconscious instrumental learning: stimulus awareness is necessary not only for instrumental learning, but also for instrumental responding to existing associations - w/ Ryan Scott & Gerhard Jocham www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...#PsychSciSky#cogsci
Instrumental conditioning is a crucial part of adaptive behaviour, allowing agents to selectively interact with stimuli in their environment. Recent e…
Happy the 2nd empirical chapter has (finally!) been published in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s41... In this work, we used simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings to investigate the temporal cascade of biased learning from rewards and punishments across cortex and subcortex.
1/8 Project 2: The role of Pavlovian biases among other “decision systems" (goal-directed/ habitual, WM vs. RL…) is not clear yet. One idea is that it acts as an “emergency system” in situations of stress/ high arousal by invigorating sensible action "priors"... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/9 Project 1: Pavlovian (or “motivational”) biases denote the phenomenon of reward prospect invigoration action, while punishment prospect suppresses action. But does the magnitude (“stake”) of the prospective reward/ punishment matter?...
Having defended my PhD earlier this year, still before the end of 2023, I’m happy to preprint two small projects I did which did not make it into my thesis. Both pre-registered, but we did not find support for our initial hypotheses. Still worth sharing! Two threads…
Many EcoEvo Analysts has been years in development with HUNDREDS of contributors from ecology analysing (and reviewing analysis) the same two datasets. Herioc effort by MetaMelb's Elliot Gould & Hannah Fraser + Tim Parker, Shinichi Nakagawa, Pete Vesk and many others ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...