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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 11d

Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position? I can only recommend working with @ondrejzika.bsky.social

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you are at #CCN2025, go say hi to @nirmoneta.bsky.social

nirmoneta.bsky.social @nirmoneta.bsky.social · Aug 11

Attending #CCN2025?
Come check out our poster tomorrow (Tuesday, A90) on how reward morphs neural representations of non-spatial cognitive maps in the hippocampus. Work w. @luiantaverra.bsky.social, Alex Nitsch, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social & @nicoschuck.bsky.social

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 1

Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668096v1

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jun 10

Are you coming to @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025?
Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫

w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Feb 21

We are now accepting short talk abstracts for our workshop on gamification in cog & comp neuroscience at #RLDM2025 🎮👾🕹️

shorturl.at/0p0Jd

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement:

"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"

Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd

Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

💙Code available github.com/luiantav/vp_... & github.com/luiantav/vp_...

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GitHub - luiantav/vp_gen: This repo contains code and instructions to reproduce analyses from the associated paper

This repo contains code and instructions to reproduce analyses from the associated paper - GitHub - luiantav/vp_gen: This repo contains code and instructions to reproduce analyses from the associa...

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

Finally, we show that trait anxiety is associated with stronger generalisation and that this overgeneralization is associated with value rather than perceptual mechanisms.
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

Using computational modelling we show that we can dissociate perceptual and value-based generalisation. Response distributions (here for generalisation stimuli closest to the CS+) reflect predicted distributions.
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

We predict that trial-wise rating distributions differ for perceptual & value-based generalisation (binary vs. gradual). To generalise value, participants can draw on different functions (Gaussian-like, monotonic).
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

We show that outcome expectancy ratings learned for a CS+ generalise to perceptually similar stimuli - although showing different patterns.
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

👻Using a pretty task involving dangerous (&scary) Spaceflowers we collect data on participants’ perceptual discriminability, aversive learning and generalisation behaviour.
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

Generalisation of learned outcome expectancies to similar stimuli can result from confusing two stimuli (perceptual mechanism) or from the transfer of learned value (value mechanism).

We use a modelling approach to dissociate these two mechanisms.
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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · Jan 17

It’s a Preprint! 👋

We show how we can dissociate perceptual from value-based mechanisms of generalisation + that stronger gen. in anxiety is associated with value rather than perception.
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@ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

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