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Patricia Lockwood

@thepsychologist.bsky.social

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Prof of Decision Neuroscience, Sir Henry Dale Fellow & Jacobs Fellow, University of Birmingham @TheCHBH PI http://www.sdn-lab.org. Likes cats, decision-making, social behaviour & brains. Blog: http://tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇

Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science

Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour. However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young adults who are productive, r...

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks so much for coming and for your fantastic talk!

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

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CSC 2025

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors.
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · Jul 4

I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

Homepage - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you! 🙂

Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Jul 2

Yes! We suggest that in addition to WEIRD, limiting research to a specific age group is under appreciated and shapes cognitive science particularly when research is shifting to asking if AI is ‘human’ but the human benchmark is young adults and there are substantial lifespan differences

Thanks ☺️

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Jul 2

Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jul 1

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

Deadline Sun 6th July

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London

Find a PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!

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David Melnikoff @d-melnikoff.bsky.social · Jun 21

A key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Model-based algorithms shape automatic evaluative processing | PNAS

Computational theories of reinforcement learning suggest that two families of algorithm—model-based and model-free—tightly map onto the classic dis...

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · May 28

Hope you made it!

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · May 28

Enjoy! Sounds fun 🤩

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · May 27

Important comment on an impressive new paper! People looking to measure incentivised, effortful actions might be interested in our preprint inc. new online task and effect of pro-environmental interventions 💪🌍 osf.io/preprints/ps... w/ @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @brainapps.bsky.social & many more

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 29

Super interesting! Unfortunately not but would be great to integrate this in future studies with this sample, thanks for the suggestion!

Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you so much!! Yes several years of data collection, and then lots of impressive analysis work by @zhilinsu.bsky.social! Hope all is well with you 🙂

Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 29

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟

Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in economic and social decision-making in humans but the specific functions of its subregions are not clear. This study shows that the dorsal mPFC is ca...

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 28

I can imagine 😬. You got this! And lovely weather for travelling around the uk. Enjoy the conference 🙂

Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 27

Busy week!! Look forward to hearing about it on Thursday 🙂

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · Apr 22

🏆 Early Career Award nominations now open! 🏆

Until June 15, we are inviting applications recognizing new approaches or paradigms within the field of social neuroscience, and/or the advancement of research that cuts across multiple fields of neuroscience to understand social cognition and behavior.

a man in a suit and tie is saying keep your eyes on the prize

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying keep your eyes on the prize

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 17

Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!

Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Feb 18

🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟

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Lei Zhang | 张磊 @lei-zhang.bsky.social · Feb 17

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL!

Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.

Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .

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Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · Apr 14

***Postdoc application deadline tomorrow!***

Interested in how AI models propagate human prejudice and ideology? Join us in Amsterdam!

(Deadline is Apr 15, but we will review apps until the position is filled.)

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 12

I agree 🙂

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Steve W. C. Chang @stevewcchang.bsky.social · Apr 2

If you are involved in social neuroscience research, please consider submitting symposium proposals and/or individual abstracts to present your findings at the S4SN meeting in Lisbon!! @s4sn.bsky.social

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Apr 11

Why I value peer review - new World View in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4w5795ua I discuss why peer review is still important and useful despite some of the challenges, and reflect on some personal peer review experiences. Interested to hear what others think about peer review 🙂.

Why I value peer review

Nature Human Behaviour - Patricia Lockwood discusses why she values peer review and participating in the peer review process, despite some of the challenges.

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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · Apr 9

'Understanding disrupted motivation in Parkinson’s disease through a value-based decision-making lens'

Review article by Campbell Le Heron, Lee-Anne Morris & Sanjay Manohar

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · Apr 4

🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry

💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling

📅 Review begins April 18, 2025

🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

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