๐จ Our lab's first paper is published!
The claim: anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening, but the task models people use to plan. ๐งต
This tiny study provides preliminary support that world model variation is critical to explaining anxiety.
https://t.co/9ZUSMTm5Vm
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Preprint from @GoogleDeepMind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators
We've updated the preprint of our Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science paper โ we've clarified and streamlined the arguments, and expanded examples where we see increasing naturalism already yielding new theoretical insights, from RL to perceptual neuroscience. 1/4
A standard stimulus-generalization account predicts anxious people use threat-associated keys *more*, to pre-empt new threats. We found the opposite: the actions themselves are excluded from the planning repertoire. A distinct mechanism.
๐จ Our lab's first paper is published!
The claim: anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening, but the task models people use to plan. ๐งต
This tiny study provides preliminary support that world model variation is critical to explaining anxiety.
https://t.co/9ZUSMTm5Vm
๐ฅ๐จ Lab's first paper is out !! Thanks @micahgallen for reposting here.
The article is open access, showing anxiety biased how we form world/task models when when we confuse actions coincidental threat as if those actions cause threat.
Read here: https://t.co/jQfeLfGJIn
Anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening but the specific task models people use to plan their actions, suggesting world model variation is critical to explaining this condition.
https://t.co/y6O5buclBv