Bo Shen

Postdoc in Glimcher lab, NYU School of Medicine, working on decision neuroscience

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

@SpringerNature @NatureComms @kenwaylouie

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

My latest research on #Decision and #Noise has just been published with @SpringerNature in @NatureComms. Please read and share: https://t.co/CV3VV7XAqY

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

This work reconciles controversial experimental findings in the literature for context-dependent choice. More broadly, it highlights how different sources of noise can interact with neural computations to modulate behavior differentially.

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

We provided the computational framework and predictions in this paper and validated them with a behavioral experiment.

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

Therefore, when considering the impact of decision context on choice, it improves choice accuracy under early noise but impairs choice under late noise.

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

In decision-making, early noise is processed through normalization computation and suppressed by contextual information, whereas late noise is not.

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

We take a perspective that human choice errors are contributed by two types of noise: early noise reflecting the uncertainty of value inputs, and late noise reflecting the inherent stochasticity of the neural process. The two types of noise lead to opposite behavioral effects.

[Jing-Jing Li @drjingjing2026]

1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.

[Arkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov]

Highly recommend the Neuroeconomics Summer School - which is at INSEAD next year - for all PhD students and postdocs in neuroeconomics and decision neuroscience. All details here: https://t.co/1bFXl1ZWLQ

#neuroeconomics

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

It’s Chicago again. Friends, let’s catch up! Presenting my work on Sunday morning https://t.co/A9eylb9hyF
#SFN24

[Li-Ping Wang @LiPingWangION]

It’s time to work WITH memory!
New work from our lab is out: Extra temporary subspace is necessary for information exchange or asynchronous programming.

Mental programming of spatial sequences in working memory in the macaque frontal cortex | Science https://t.co/To3ZvB7cyt

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

The macaque brain can link action to value in a choice task through neural population subspaces, balancing reliable binding of action to value and generalization to novel stimuli

@wjeffjohnston @JustFineNeuro @NeuroPolarbear

https://t.co/qha47bVO0L

[Camillo Padoa Schioppa @CamilloPadoaSch]

New paper: In a juice-choice task, we thought that gustatory cortex (GC) might provide the main input to compute offer values. It doesn't. Variables encoded in GC are all post-decision.

Neuronal Activity in Gustatory Cortex during Economic Choice https://t.co/ZhbruprINM

[Rajesh P. N. Rao @RajeshPNRao]

Excited to announce that Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro has published my article "A sensory-motor theory of the neocortex" (based on active predictive coding). #Neuroscience #AI #brain
PDF: https://t.co/Ji021bnhVv
Article page: https://t.co/RDbSqzBX0C

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

My lab @Georgetown is seeking 1-2 post-doctoral scholars. Our lab offers a unique opportunity to work with both people with psychopathy and people who have engaged in extraordinary acts of altruism (and to conduct behavioral, MRI, and intervention research). Please r/t and share.

[David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social @DG_Rand]

📢POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY📢
Come join me @GordPennycook & @tomstello_ as we launch a research program using dialogues with LLMs as a tool to study human psychology and decision-making! Located at MIT or Cornell, and open applicants from all kinds of intellectual backgrounds/training

[Wei Ji Ma @weijima01]

Lab's first paper on procrastination, by @peiyuan9. Sixteen years after I told Read Montague in my job interview that I wanted to study the topic (and he didn't laugh at me). https://t.co/Nj1BamZwye

[Todd Hare @Todd_A_Hare]

We have two open postdoc positions in the lab! Check out the links below for details.
Postdoc in neuroscience of reward learning: https://t.co/vfb6phdmPk
Postdoc in physiology of learning and decision making: https://t.co/7WZitovtdH
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[vered kurtz @veredkurtz]

It’s finally out!! A big shoutout to @asaf_mdr !
Tldr: Neural synchrony during rest predicts inconsistency in choice in a later task

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

Thanks the co-authors for their efforts! @kenwaylouie

[Bo Shen @BoShenNeuro]

📢 Our new preprint is out! 🎉 Explore the origins of decisional noise, we found early and late noise impacts decision-making in distinct ways, especially when surrounded with context. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so please share your thoughts！https://t.co/AcFQAtLowa