Senne Braem

Professor of cognitive science, Ghent University. Cognitive control, reinforcement learning, fear conditioning, autism.

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

Wow, the exodus from X -> Bsky is taking off like never before! So many cool new starter packs. I made one for cognitive neuroscience accounts! https://t.co/zPsNjVOLzz

[Nico Schuck @nico_schuck]

It’s important to build communities, but this place is getting more wretched by the day.

Hope to see you all on the other side.

[summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @summerfieldlab]

@JacquesPesnot and I are very happy to share this paper. https://t.co/VNJpegYhWn. Building on work by @scychan_brains we show that human in-context and in-weight learning vary with the distributional properties of the training data in a very similar way to transformer networks.

[Shenhav Lab @ShenhavLab]

Our paper on the Affective Gradient Hypothesis is now out on @TrendsCognSci! 🧠
➡️https://t.co/06U46A3Pn3

For a short summary of how this theory originated and what it proposes, see this 🧵: https://t.co/FCUjV8K3Nw

[Taraz Lee @TarazLee]

Super excited this one is officially out! How/when can we suppress the urge to look at and attend to salient distracting information?

Check out Han's thread for an explainer!

"The temporal dynamics of visual attention" in JEP: General

[Lilian Aline Weber @lilwebian]

✨Rethinking reinforcement learning: the interoceptive origins of reward
https://t.co/2PngCYVppN

An honour and *absolute delight* bouncing ideas with these brilliant women: @debyeeneuro @danamsmall @rikepetzschner

What are primary reward signals and where do they come from?

[Sam Gershman @gershbrain]

Before you write a review of a paper in which you say "It's mostly meh" (a direct quote), stop to consider that you might be talking to a grad student who spent years on the project and is now internalizing the social norms of their profession.

[Kai Sandbrink @akaijsa]

Excited that the preprint for the work from my first two years of PhD at @summerfieldlab is out! In this work, we examine the role of action prediction errors (APEs) in cognitive control: https://t.co/F5tF4NhkvN (1/4)

[Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss]

I’m recruiting PhD students for my (soon-to-launch) lab at Boston University! If you’re interested in the intersection of computation, learning, & development, please reach out. I’ll be at #Flux2024 and #SNE2024 and am happy to meet up.

https://t.co/1qcQ3o1zRD

[Atsushi Kikumoto @KikumotoAtsushi]

We have a new preprint with @kazuhi_s_ , Takahiro Nishio, and @BadreLab! “Practice Reshapes the Geometry and Dynamics of Task-tailored Representations.” https://t.co/DXj7G8JpAl

[Senne Braem @sebraem]

Of course, there’s much more to unpack than 500-word commentary formats allow, and I may come across more confident on paper and tweets than I am in reality. Therefore, always happy to discuss further in a conference hall or other meeting, and learn where I might be wrong! (7/7)

[Senne Braem @sebraem]

I've been recommending this review by @EgnerLab to many: https://t.co/6ARx0hNvS6. It's a great overview on task control research, summarizing several interesting insights! However, w/ Gesine Dreisbach and @smusslick, we disagreed with one conclusion: https://t.co/s42obaUbSx (1/7)

[Senne Braem @sebraem]

Also worth noting that at least 2 more papers called for similar ideas: https://t.co/J8iUEG70w9; https://t.co/ptBFQV2iIZ. They make important points, but I don't see the need to abandon the trade-off idea, which as the second paper notes is likely very task-specific. (6/7)

[Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social) @TheCharleyWu]

Very excited to share this preprint that's been a massive labor of love and provides a new "middle way" for studying multigenerational processes that compliment the control of a lab experiment 🔬 and the real-world validity of archaeological records🦴! https://t.co/kEma21VMmZ

[Tobias Egner @EgnerLab]

For fans of *Cognitive Controversies* -> my comments on others’ comments on my opinion! TLDR: I propose to unyoke the constructs of cognitive stability and flexibility; others disagree; we argue politely...
Free read links:
https://t.co/qBxmyshiAC
https://t.co/gytB3fH0sX

[Romy Frömer @froemero1]

Need a thrilling weekend reading recommendation? I might have just the thing for you!
👉https://t.co/19Jn9te1M4 Read the final paper @NatureHumBehav and don't skip the *peer review*!😱😱😱
Thanks to my brilliant collaborators @BenediktEhinger @NassarLab and @ShenhavLab !🧡🧡🧡