Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology, UC Berkeley.
PI of @shenhavlab.bsky.social
https://www.shenhavlab.org/
@bulezz.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialHow does juggling multiple thoughts affect long term memory? check this out!
Amitai Shenhav
@ashenhav.bsky.social
@bulezz.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.social
@amandalebel.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialA new paper from my PhD work! Attention reshapes how the cortex represents meaning. Does the same thing happen in the cerebellum?
@samwang.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialToday I want to talk about my favorite dummymanders. In a dummymander, the geniuses behind the map have cut margins too close, and create vulnerabilities for themselves. tl;dr: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Here are four states that took it too far - and where you can make a difference.
@iancballard.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialThe Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
tinyurl.com/yjubmvvb
@chrisbaldassano.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialI'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! We study how the brain perceives, remembers, and predicts naturalistic experiences like movies and games, using computational tools to analyze behavioral and neural data 🧠
App deadline is 12/2/26 - see our lab pubs on our website www.dpmlab.org/pubs.html
@meganakpeters.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialI am able to take on new doctoral students through this amazing initiative! If you are interested please reach out to me by email to discuss.
@lapate.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialWe’re hiring a BIC Director—come join us at UCSB! 🧠🏖️
The Psych & Brain Sciences Dept. at UCSB is hiring a Brain Imaging Center Director. Apply to Job Number JPF03164 on the UCSB UC Recruit portal (recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03164) by November 1, 2026. UCSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
@krishnbera.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialHow fast we decide reveals how we learn.
New in
@plos.org #PLoSCompBio
: modeling response times alongside choices disentangles working memory, reinforcement learning and cognitive control, and reveals differences in schizophrenia that choices alone missed. 🧵
@markhisted.orgReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialKilled. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
@benhayden.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialNew paper from the Neurosurgery research team at BCM! 🧵
"A population code for semantics in human hippocampus"
led by Melissa Franch. We recorded hippocampus single neurons while people listened to podcasts.
@annaleshinskaya.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialI am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.
@psychscience.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialOn November 4, @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social, @ashenhav.bsky.social, @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social, and Alexandre Marois will examine the question: Is AI Helping Us Think or Thinking for Us?
Register for our next Science for Society: member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...
@bradpostle.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialReally chuffed about this one. It's impt for our efforts to understand neural and computational bases of controlling the contents of WM. It also highlights a control-related signal in the beta band that is NOT "inhibitory" in the way often assumed doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
@wanjawolff.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialOur paper on effort-performance (de)coupling is now out at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🎉
Really interested? Read it open access here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Just a little bit interested? TL;DR in the thread below 👇
@affectscience.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialSubmissions for the SAS Emotion Regulation pre-conference are due Thursday, 10/01! We're looking for avant-garde discussions, hot takes, & emerging early career work ! Get your panel discussions, spicy talks, and early career flash talks to [email protected] soon! #SAS2027
@ashenhav.bsky.socialCongratulations Felipe!!! This is so well-deserved! 👏🏻👏🏻
@khoudary.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialhow does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social!
@rldmparis2027.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.social📣 Save the date!
RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉
Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀
@shenhavlab.bsky.socialReposted by @ashenhav.bsky.socialOur newest paper, "The three biggest obstacles to solving motivated behavior, and how to overcome them," is now in press at Advances in Motivation Science 🎉
To learn more about the obstacles & solutions the paper poses, see the 🧵 below:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
@ashenhav.bsky.socialThere's a lot more packed into this, including foreshadowing work we've been doing to test AGH. Whether or not you buy this set of solutions, I really hope you'll engage with the problems because they are (imo) undeniable & have far-reaching implications. Please send your feedback & critiques!