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Learning Memory and Decision Lab @BrownUniversity | We study how the brain processes information for effective decision making.
Providence, RI
Joined December 2020
In our new @CommsPsychol review, we explore how humans adjust learning to different types of uncertainty, why biases arise, and what this reveals about learning and psychiatric conditions. 📖 Read more: https://t.co/qs2VIn99TN With @NassarLab & @haukeren
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Communications Psychology - Flexible learning requires humans to adjust their behaviour to uncertainty. While normative learning models explain many adaptive behaviours, systematic biases-arising...
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Come join us at the 2025 Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM) on June 11-14, 2025, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland!! Workshop deadline Dec 10th Abstract deadline Jan 15th https://t.co/CEN669QBL6
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Congrats to friends of LMD lab @froemero1, @BenediktEhinger, @ShenhavLab on a fantastic new paper in Nature Human Behavior!!!
Need a thrilling weekend reading recommendation? I might have just the thing for you! 👉 https://t.co/19Jn9te1M4 Read the final paper @NatureHumBehav and don't skip the *peer review*!😱😱😱 Thanks to my brilliant collaborators @BenediktEhinger @NassarLab and @ShenhavLab !🧡🧡🧡
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The final version of our chapter on "Decision-making under uncertainty" is now available online: https://t.co/eaCqESPulo It's part of the "Encyclopedia of the Human Brain". Feel free to send me a message if you don't have access, then I'll share the PDF. @NassarLab @CCNBerlin
New preprint of a forthcoming chapter on "Decision-Making under Uncertainty". With Matt Nassar @NassarLab and aimed to provide an intro for grad students and researchers interested in decision-making and uncertainty. https://t.co/Qxj8mZzXVy
@CCNBerlin @fupsych @IMPRS_LIFE
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New opinion paper from yours truly in Current Biology in Behavioral Sciences discussing the computational role of the LC/NE system🧠
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The Dept of Neuroscience at Brown Univ is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! Neuroscientists in any topical area welcome. Want to join our inclusive community of dedicated scholars & educators? Details at https://t.co/EXhT6mNdyj
#TenureTrack
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Two updates! 1) We have a website now! You can find us at https://t.co/n3JzTHtp4W ! 💻🥳 2) We have a new preprint up with @NassarLab where we review research on learning and decision-making within a computation-centered framework. Check it out at https://t.co/5YN6Ai2bRM . 🤓🧁
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How do I decide which restaurant to eat at? How do I form and update the beliefs about the world that shape my behavior, from my food preferences to career path? The brain makes decisions large and...
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New paper with Amrita Lamba and @orielf in @eLife investigating how prefrontal cortex state representations shape credit assignment in humans. https://t.co/z1TfFWtsrX Congrats!🥳
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The medial prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex work in concert to match state representations from feedback to those at choice, and the strength of these common neural codes predict credit...
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Congrats to Carney professors Desrochers, Feiman and Nassar who were honored as the 2023 Carney Institute Junior Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award winners! Read more about the awardees @ https://t.co/uyBsLzANH2
#BrownBrainScience
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New preprint with @milenamr7 and @Anne_On_Tw showing that age differences in learning were largely attributable to changes in a working memory system that was associated with levels of prefrontal glutamate! Congrats!!🎉 https://t.co/8CVczroqiE
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Apparent age-related differences in learning are best accounted for by rapid decay of information in working memory, which is associated with levels of prefrontal glutamate.
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We had a great time getting the kindergarteners of Vartan Gregorian Elementary School excited about the brain!! Read more about it, and other recent @BrainWeekRI outreach events, here!
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Brown students and faculty were among the Brain Week Rhode Island volunteers who brought plastic brains, interactive activities and lots of neuroscience knowledge to schools around the state.
As part of #BrainWeekRI 2023, Carney faculty, students and postdocs went to local K-12 schools around RI to lead interactive demonstrations and educational games that encouraged hands-on learning about the brain. Learn more & see photos of these visits @ https://t.co/ndnPra7Xxj
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Fun times at the Brown Brain Fair this past weekend! It was great getting to show kids their EEG brain waves and hopefully helping inspire the next generation of neuroscientists!🧠🎉 @BrainWeekRI @CarneyInstitute @BrownUNeuro
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Position opening! We are looking to hire another full-time RA! If you are interested, check out this link for more information and to apply: https://t.co/WQhBUvPnah For any questions, please contact sienna_bruinsma@brown.edu and/or matthew_nassar@brown.edu.
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It's still frosty out there but summer is coming and NOW is the time to apply for the Carney Summer Scholars program, a 9-week research experience in Carney laboratories on a computational brain science project. Applications due Feb 1st. Learn more @ https://t.co/wDerhWrzba
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Heads up! The Provost is launching a new STEM Postdoctoral Fellow Program. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis but apply by January 9 for best consideration. Learn more and apply at: https://t.co/eHXIHeBive
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We are pleased to announce a faculty search for an Assistant Professor in computational brain science at Brown University within the Carney Institute / Center for Computational Brain Science. Deadline: December 15, 2022. Apply at https://t.co/iaEwHGuYsx. Pl RT.
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Super pleased to announce that my work with individuals with ventromedial frontal damage has been *finally* published in Nature Communications!
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Nature Communications - The ventromedial frontal lobes (VMF) contribute to encoding of value. Here the authors show that individuals with VMF damage have less stable, but fundamentally transitive...
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Are we in a recession? Will there be another COVID surge in the fall? Will inflation keep getting worse? If you've heard pundits on the news, people you know (or yourself!) being wrong about these questions, read my post here about why that happens: https://t.co/Ooqw28rTNV
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Are we in a recession? Will there be another COVID surge in the fall? Will inflation keep getting worse or get better?
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We are excited to share our *amazing* lineup for this year's GRAN2022 symposium on 5/20/22, featuring @HeidiJacobsLab @NassarLab @ytquiroz @TheColeLab @QuantNeuroImage @ifat_levy You're not going to want to miss this! Registration Link Here (by 5/6 pls): https://t.co/z61YrV2NhC
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Our paper on how humans navigate complex structures during latent learning is now in Cognition (link: https://t.co/oCCb3tyyNm) 🥔🚀 @harrison_ritz, @coolhandlinds, @urrational @amitaishenhav
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