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Computational mechanisms of learning and forgetting differentiate affective and substance use disorders - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Computational mechanisms of learning and forgetting differentiate affective and substance use disorders

Congrats to Navid on his new paper in Molecular Psychiatry! Computational modeling found that learning rates and uncertainty sensitivity could distinguish between affective disorders and substance use disorders. Forgetting rate was instead affected transdiagnostically. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

This is absolutely crazy. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Refining the Observed Mindfulness Measure to Create and Validate the Observed Mindful Behaviours Scale - Mindfulness Objectives To offer another lens to study how mindfulness influences behaviours and social relationships, this paper reports the creation of the Observed Mindful Behaviours (OMB) scale. The OMB respon...

Can you observe someone else's mindfulness in the way they act? We need proper tools to investigate this critical second-person perspective on mindfulness.

Masterfully led by Larissa Bartlett, this OA study validates the Observed Mindful Behaviours Scale.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence: The Biological Route from Chemistry to Cognition and Creativity Achieving advanced machine intelligence remains a central challenge in AI research, often approached through scaling neural architectures and generative models. However, biological systems offer a bro...

New preprint with Giovanni Pezzulo:
arxiv.org/abs/2602.08079
Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence: The Biological Route from Chemistry to Cognition and Creativity

Congratulations, looking forward to reading it!

The Self-Evidencing Agent What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social

Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.

I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

@robincarhartharris.bsky.social so interesting, isn’t it?

Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Thank you, fascinating “field”! :-)

Thank you for the ref!

This seems to gel with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social proposal that local fields are also what regulates the expression of genetic information. Any thoughts about the relationship of these two aspects?

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience

We Are Uncomfortably Close to 1933 Acquiescence by Republicans to Trump’s agenda is reminiscent of the Reichstag’s collapse.

We Are Uncomfortably Close to 1933
www.persuasion.community/p/we-are-unc...

Quick heads-up: My book, The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto, is unillustrated and deals only briefly with camera operation. The accompanying visual supplement for that section is always free to download, at drive.google.com/file/d/1_xva...

Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

what happens when we slash US public funding for a biomedical field, & increase the availability & significance of private funding, when the media generally become less restricted by traditional/expert regulations?

unfortunately, i may know the answer, based on some related experiences

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Bayesian Models of the Mind Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Mind and Language - Bayesian Models of the Mind

The second new volume in the Elements in Philosophy of Mind series is *Bayesian Models of the Mind* by Michael Rescorla. Till 27 February you can download it free from this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias!

@monash-m3cs.bsky.social

#neuroskyence #philsky

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰

To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.

Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

True! 😂

New paper! Now in press at Cognition:

Experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning

Check out @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social's new paper. This was a real effort...and boy was it meaningful (especially now that it was accepted!). Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thanks, it’s a fascinating topic!

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