Our neural network model of differentiation and integration of competing memories, developed by Victoria Ritvo and Alex Nguyen, has now been published in @elife.bsky.socialhttps://tinyurl.com/4b3k95rdhttps://tinyurl.com/mr25rk9e #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroai (1/5)
I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior: rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)
We're hiring a pre-doctoral RA to work with us on the Hypatia project in 2025 🎉🧠🧑🔬 You will be supporting & assessing the development of cognitive decision-making models for scientific, industrial, and clinical use Dm for informal queries! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...#neuroskyence 🧪
Part-Time (17.5 hours per week), Fixed-Term (until 3 June 2025)Applications are invited for the post of Wellcome Trust funded Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology [part-time post, availa...
This is highly speculative & requires formalizing, but my hope is that the framework promotes these investigations! 🤞 Something I'm so excited to work on with others including new students ☺️
Assuming a very simple rule for planning termination, that we need a plan with an expected return above some threshold, the construal itself can make that threshold much harder to reach. Thus, search persists and is negative (ie worry).
One may not be risk averse yet select goals in ways that predict worry. E.g., an individual w low self-esteem may desire to "sound confident" & plan for an interview by simulating speech production - response transitions others would ignore. this construal may impact how we find a good-enough policy
I've reflected more on how I could offer new models using the framework and how to fit for instance Chris's work into the framework. Chris's model's risk aversion param he identifies is reflective of personality (top level). Through CVaR, it quite directly distorts task structure & planning
📝 New paper out at NHB! ❓ How do people solve social navigation problems, like predicting the flow of information through a network? 💡 Extended rest (e.g. sleep) helps us to build abstract cognitive maps identifying routes between remotely-connected network members www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How do people track information flow through social networks? New research finds that extended periods of rest, such as sleep, help people build abstract cognitive maps that identify efficient routes ...
🚨 I'm looking for a postdoc! The role will be focused on building computational models of learning and decision-making, and understanding the role of these processes in anxiety Get in touch if you want to know more! See job advert here for details: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
Chris and Sam's work is great (Chris and I were in a joint RLDM symposium). The goal in this very short review is to spotlight more recent planning models that can be applied for anxiety model development.