shawnrhoadsphd.com
Assistant Professor @ ISMMS NIH Director's Early Independence Awardee Lindau Nobel Laureate Young Scientist PI @ sinclaboratory.com Using computational models, fMRI, & intracranial EEG to study social inference, learning, empathy, loneliness, & well-being
👤 Joined on 25 September 2023
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@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social → @shawnrhoadsphd.comMost studies ask what #oxytocin does by giving it from the outside. But what happens when the brain releases its own? The answer: not a single "oxytocin circuit" but a profound reorganization of brain network dynamics (fMRI + ePhys) favoring salience-related states! 👉 tinyurl.com/mryc8rp6
Show Post📣 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 👀
Show PostGrant peer review costs a lot: ~$40k per application in reviewer time, with proposals reviewed again and again. In @thetransmitter.bsky.social , I propose a partial lottery: reviewers decide pass/fail, chance picks among the passes, and "unmissable" ideas and ECRs get protected routes.
Show Post🚨 💥 💫 New preprint! 👇 In this opinion paper, @julia-senfft.bsky.social and I discuss the role of structural uncertainty and probabilistic beliefs in anxious thought. We propose "hypotheses spaces" and their properties as a useful lens to study cognitive aspects of anxiety.
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