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Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs @epares.bsky.social · 12d

Check out our reviewed preprint, now out in eLife!
With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:

Perceptual glimpses are locally accumulated and globally maintained at distinct processing levels

elifesciences.org

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Simon Kelly @spk3lly.bsky.social · Aug 21

Led by John Egan @eganj.bsky.social, with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, @johnfoxe.bsky.social, Manuel Gomez-Ramirez

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Simon Kelly @spk3lly.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out our new multisensory decision study!
We tackle a decades-old Q: does faster detection of bimodal targets come from a race or co-activation between modalities? And also a vital, orthogonal Q: is it one decision process or two?
A1: co-activation
A2: two!
Read here: rdcu.be/eASYd

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Simon Kelly @spk3lly.bsky.social · Aug 21

New paper from the lab indicates some surprising differences in visual cortical contributions to two popular VEP types.
In it, Kieran uses some of his brilliant tricks from last year's paper:

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kiemohr.bsky.social @kiemohr.bsky.social · Jul 29

Delighted to share this paper, now published in @arvoinfo.bsky.social. With @spk3lly.bsky.social‬ and Anna Geuzebroek we explored differences in visual cortical responses for pattern pulses and pattern reversals. Here's the link:
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Pattern-pulses and pattern-reversals evoke different cascades of cortical sources in the multifocal visual evoked potential | JOV | ARVO Journals

jov.arvojournals.org

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John P Grogan @johnpgrogan1.bsky.social · Jun 10

Our newest preprint is out (doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.05.658071), with @lucvermeylen.bsky.social,Dasha Monakhovych, Cameron McCabe, Sarah-Louise Mannion, @kobedesender.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, comparing post-decision confidence models against behaviour and neural decision signals...

Neurally-informed modelling unravels a single evidence accumulation process for choices and subsequent confidence reports

Subjective confidence in perceptual choices depends on computations occurring prior to and after choice commitment. However, the nature of these computations remains unclear. Current models disagree o...

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · May 29

If you are into psychology or behavioural sciences, check out this new piece we have in Nature Human Behaviour on degrowth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth

Nature Human Behaviour - Degrowth is a socioeconomic paradigm that prioritizes planetary health and human wellbeing through a democratically planned reduction of unnecessary production and...

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Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs @epares.bsky.social · Apr 28

Very happy to share this paper, now published in
@natcomms.nature.com! nature.com/articles/s41...
With @spk3lly.bsky.social and @neuromurphy.bsky.social, we investigated the neural computations that allow us to make near-optimal decisions in changing environments. Here's a short summary:

Dissociable encoding of evolving beliefs and momentary belief updates in distinct neural decision signals - Nature Communications

People are capable of making near-optimal decisions in volatile, changing environments. Here, the authors show how two neural decision signals encode distinct aspects of the belief updating process un...

nature.com

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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · Mar 20

A little temporal integration or leaky evidence accumulation might be all that's needed to explain subjective aspects of stimulus detection like perceived duration or confidence. New comp. modelling preprint from *Ramla Msheik* with Emma Sirouet, @spk3lly.bsky.social and @nfaivre.bsky.social.

Nathan Faivre @nfaivre.bsky.social · Mar 19

Through thick and thin, the ultra-resilient Ramla Msheik completed the main study of her PhD, which supports leaky evidence accumulation as a computational mechanism underlying perceptual confidence and subjective duration. Check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Leaky evidence accumulation accounts for perceptual confidence and subjective duration

Perceptual consciousness is defined as the subjective experience associated with the processing of sensory cues from the environment. Subjective experience unfolds over time and is accompanied by a se...

www.biorxiv.org

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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · Jan 6

Come join us in Dublin June 11-14th for the Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social! Great speaker list rldm.org/invited-spea..., workshops and tutorials soon to be announced. Abstract submission deadline 15th January. Don't miss out!

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Steph Bickel @stephanbickel.bsky.social · Dec 7

We are looking to hire a lab manager / research assistant for our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). Ideal start date 03-2025. Open to non-US applicants but it’s a (mostly) in-person job. Plz DM or email me if you’re interested or have questions! Official link will follow.

HBML - Home

Human Brain Mapping Labratory

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RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social · Nov 15

Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025)

Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit

Picture of Trinity College Dublin's campanile in the front square of the college. Writing overlayed to indicate that the RLDM conference will take place from the 11th to the 14th of June, 2025. Logos for Trinity College and the RLDM conference at the bottom of the image.

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