Alan Voodla

PhDing psychology @unitartu & DesenderLab @KU_Leuven , thinking about cognition as a complex system; studying the interplay of decision confidence and affect.

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

I am super grateful to @T_Vrantsidis & Kimia Sabbagh for this collaboration!

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

A fresh preprint! https://t.co/8mCQyOPCmn
Reward Prediction Errors, Not Expectations or Outcomes, Drive Emotional Valence.

We find that when accounting for multiple levels of RPEs (e.g., trial- and block-level) and their temporal dynamics, only RPEs predict affect.

[Andero Uusberg @anderouusberg]

Tartu Affect and Regulation Unit is diving into the stimulating waters of #ISRE24 with a group record of 6 presentations!

If you’re in the mood for some estonished affective science, check us out (1/7)

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

@amitaishenhav Very cool work! In this preprint https://t.co/5170JiqsJB we tackle similar issues in the context of decision confidence :)

[Collabra: Psychology @CollabraOA]

New in Cognitive Psychology: On the Interplay Between Stimulus-driven and Goal-directed Processes in the Decision to Fight or Flee, from Massimo Köster @KosterMaf Maja Fischer @MajaFischer5 Evelien Bossuyt Eike Buabang @eike_kofi & Agnes Moors @agnes_moors https://t.co/xwDfAo9dwQ

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

Are you at #escan2024? Come and let's talk about affect & metacogniton at Poster session 2!

I will present our latest work with @KobeDesender and @anderouusberg, where we find that affect and confidence both reflect p(correct). See preprint here: https://t.co/5170JiqsJB

[Hélène Van Marcke @helenevanmarcke]

My first PhD project now out in @PsychScience - big shoutout to co-author @PierreLeDenmat1 & supervisors @KobeDesender & #tomverguts for making this happen! Go and have a read: https://t.co/gpvCK4FzyM

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

If you're attending SAS, come and join the discussion on mechanisms of affective experience on Saturday morning!

I will be presenting our recent work with @KobeDesender and @anderouusberg on whether affect reflects prediction errors :)

#AffectScience2024 @affectScience

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

My new paper is finally out with my wonderful mentors @KobeDesender & @anderouusberg. We show that in perceptual decisions, affect does not reflect progress prediction error but the addition of expected and actual progress: https://t.co/terRkByTSz

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

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[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

Twitter hivemind - do you know any resources (e.g papers/collections of tips & tricks, etc) about how to write (better) theoretical papers in psychology? Every hint appreciated :)

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

@hakwanlau "The experiments seem very skillfully executed by a large group of trainees across different labs. However, by design the studies only tested some idiosyncratic predictions made by certain theorists, which are not really logically related to the core ideas of *insert psy theory*"

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

@kaitlynmwerner @PsiChiHonor Amazing! Congratulations :)

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

A freshly carved-out framework to understand mechanisms of emotion regulation on meta & object level processing!

[Andero Uusberg @anderouusberg]

Things like mindfulness and self-compassion are sometimes seen as inherently different from things like cognitive reappraisal.

These approaches obviously differ, but as we game it out in this new paper, they seem to rely on the same mental operations… 1/3

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

I am very grateful for my superb advisors and co-authors - Kobe Desender
@KobeDesender
& Andero Uusberg
@anderouusberg
who kept the actual progress in line with expectations and with whom we managed to find a way to cut across different research traditions :)

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

What are the mechanisms that make decisions feel more or less positive or negative?
Excited to share this new preprint https://t.co/5X5Z3Vxmvi where we propose a novel computational framework - affectDDM to model affect generation in perceptual decision-making. 1/

[Alan Voodla @voalan3]

Moreover, we were able to show that, contrary to much theoretical work (e.g. Carver & Scheier, 1990, Psych Rev), affect does not track progress prediction error, but instead is computed as an additive combination of expected and actual progress in a decision. /6