Lab website is finally up, thanks to amazing lab manager Xiaodi (Sara) Hu! sociallearninglab.wixsite.com/my-site. Still some updates to come but mostly wanted to share that we hope to recruit a PhD student starting Fall 2024, preferably through the umdnacs program!

UC Riverside Psychology is hiring!🚨 We have an Open Rank TT position in Cognitive and Cognitive Neuroscience. Come join our wonderful department! Please RT 🙏
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01788

Anyone here? Recently, my colleagues (julibert maghinang, Laura Lewis, Douglas Garrett) and I published a perspective review on the human thalamus in Nature Rev Neurosci (nature.com/articles/s4158…).

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the faculty at UC Riverside this Summer! I am so excited to join the Psychology Department and start my computational cognitive neuroscience lab UC Riverside UCR CHASS

Excited to share a new preprint! We found that habits guide how people select and implement goals. Many thanks to my coauthors Michael Waskom Kerry Nix and Mark D'Esposito osf.io/63aqz/

Thrilled to announce @AAAS & I have secured a $2M award to improve LGBTQ+ disparities in STEM! We'll work with U.S. universities to transition them to legal & ethical sexual orientation & gender identity data collection to create transformative change in LGBTQ+ equity in STEM.

Our first foray into information seeking and memory! Decision uncertainty, inverted U-shaped curves, incidental memory, and more! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35293323/ David V. Smith (@dvsmith.bsky.social) Ian Ballard 🏳️‍🌈 Twitter-less all star Karen Shen.

Our latest work is out SfN Journals! How does emotional information shape current goals? Using pattern similarity analysis, we show a key role for the lateral frontal pole in integrating emotional valence and action goals during cognitive control (1/2) jneurosci.org/content/42/8/1…

Excited to be presenting with @debyee29 Taraz Lee and Ian Ballard 🏳️‍🌈!!! Hope to see you there!!!

We have set up a fund for Sarah DuBrow's daughter, Eve, for any immediate needs and for a 529 plan for her college education.

gofund.me/dcf9eef0

Deadline is tomorrow to vote for symposia at #CNS2022 ! If you are interested in motivational effects on decision-making, check out our symposium with talks by @debyee29 Taraz Lee and Yuan Chang Leong

Interested in cutting-edge #neuroscience techniques and human #cognition ? We're currently recruiting motivated students/postdocs to study human #decisionmaking using intracranial recordings and lesion approaches UC Davis. Details at bit.ly/2s3cqPM

[Please RT!]

Anyone who has experience with the new Apple Silicon, will switching over break all of my Jupyter notebooks?

If you've ever wondered how curiosity changes your hippocampus....your midbrain knows the answer!

😃 Our new paper is out today in Cerebral Cortex, w/ Ian Ballard 🏳️‍🌈, Beth Baribault, Sonia Bishop, and Anne Collins (@ccnlab)!

Oxford Academic

Link: academic.oup.com/cercor/advance…

UC is trying to cut compensation and increase healthcare costs for postdocs. Thankful we have our union
UAW Local 5810 fighting for us. UC postdocs, make sure to join UAW.

I am presenting a poster at SANS entitled, 'The striatal feedback response reflects goal updating” at poster 1-G-199. Come check out the video and I would love to hear feedback! SANS