iancballard.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UC Riverside studying learning and goal-directed behavior. Director of the Computational Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab (https://www.ballardlab.org). He/him
👤 Joined on 07 November 2023
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@iancballard.bsky.socialThe Society for the Science of Motivation is hosting a pre-meeting at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social this year (coordinated by rockstar postdoc Pelin Tanberg).
Show Post1/3 New preprint by Ballard et al. on using resting-state hemodynamic latency as an indirect marker of dopamine physiology: “Temporal fMRI Dynamics Map Dopamine Physiology” (bioRxiv, 2025) 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #RewardSignals #neurosky #neuroskyence
Show Post🎧 New Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode @vpmurty.bsky.social describes his research for an SRNDNA Pilot Grant and finding inspiration at a haunted house. He also talks about moving his lab across country and the impact of a single line in his presentations. Listen now: srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
Show PostFirst time writing a review, and found it very fulfilling! It was especially fun to co-write this, and I really appreciated the opportunity to synthesize the body of work on this topic. Huge thanks to TICS editor Lindsey Drayton for her guidance and the three reviewers for their feedback!
Show PostSpecifically, we propose a neurocomputational account in which perceptual biases arise from amygdala- and LC-NE–driven enhancement of sensory representations, while response biases reflect striatal influences on action selection. PFC flexibly encodes motivational context, orchestrating both biases.
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