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Amitai Shenhav

7 months

Some news: I'm thrilled to say that this summer I'm moving back to my alma mater @UCBerkeley to join the faculty of @BerkeleyPsych ! 🎉 I have a LOT to say about how much I'm going to miss my colleagues at Brown 🤎 but that's a future thread. I'm excited to return to my roots!😃

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@amitaishenhav

Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Tenure is awarded to individual people, but it's earned by a group. For me, that group includes my incredible mentors and the entire @ShenhavLab , past present and future. The lab wouldn't continue without me, but I would have never gotten to this point without all of them. ❤️

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Belated but very exciting news: our NSF CAREER award was recommended for funding!! 🎉 For those of you who are currently working on your submission, please feel free to reach out if I can be helpful by sharing any relevant materials.

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Some very welcome @ShenhavLab news to end the week! 🎉🍾 So grateful to @NIH @NIMHgov for supporting our lab's efforts to study the computation and circuits that support the efforts of the people we study!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

CNS is one of the first major conferences I ever attended, almost 15 years ago! That makes this a uniquely humbling achievement for me and the @ShenhavLab . Getting to share the virtual stage with the brilliant @Anne_On_Tw is icing on top!

@CogNeuroNews

CNS News

4 years

Congratulations to @Anne_On_Tw and @amitaishenhav , recipients of the 2021 Young Investigator Awards! We look forward to their talks at #CNS2021 ! #neuroscience #innnovation #research

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Thanks so much Uma! Incredibly exciting and humbling to receive this from the @SocforNeuroecon , especially alongside the amazing @cendripetalfrce !

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Over the moon chuffed and excited for @ShenhavLab PhD student Mahalia Prater Fahey ( @mpraterfahey ) for being awarded an @NSFGRFP !!! So incredibly well deserved! 👏👏👏

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

I'm VERY excited about this new review! @mpraterfahey @GrahekIvan & I offer an updated perspective on what goes into a decision to exert mental effort (the components of the cost-benefit analysis), and how our lab and others have been trying to better understand these components.

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Shenhav Lab

3 years

Now in-press at Current Directions in Psych Science, our new review with @mpraterfahey and @GrahekIvan gives an overview of work we and others have done aimed at “Decomposing the motivation to exert mental effort.”

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

I was lucky to get a last-minute extra dose of J&J vaccine in my area! 🎉 Feeling sore never felt so good!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Congratulations to my incredible colleague Michael Frank, whose work has for years been a source of inspiration for me and so many others in my field, and who has been an equally valuable source of support and wisdom since I arrived here! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@theNASciences

National Academy of Sciences

4 years

Congratulations Michael J. Frank @Brown_LNCC of @CarneyInstitute @BrownUniversity , recipient of a 2021 Troland Research Award for his groundbreaking discoveries in our understanding of learning, valuation, and cognitive control! #NASaward #Psychology

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

New review of computational models of learning and decision-making, with the incomparable @Anne_On_Tw !

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

3 years

Our latest review, on “Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience,” with @Anne_On_Tw @ccnlab , is now out in @npp_journal !

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

I just peeled a bunch of blueberries and it is still unlikely to rank among the most ridiculous things I do for my toddler today.

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

I voted (and here’s why)

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Come be our colleague!!! Our department has *two* searches this year with the potential for making more than two hires across them! These are great opportunities for anyone who loves working in a highly collaborative environment with amazing people! Details and links 👇

@BadreLab

David Badre

2 years

We are hiring multiple positions at the Asst/Assoc Professor level! Join our interdisciplinary department @BrownCLPS ! Social and/or Cognitive Psychology Developmental Psychology and/or Behavioral Neuroscience

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

ice ice baby just came on and my 3yo asked "is that under pressure?" and I just couldn't be more proud... 😊

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Amitai Shenhav

5 years

We have a new paper out, led by @froemero1 , along with @cdeanwolf , that I think has important implications for anyone interested in understanding the role of reward in reward-based decisions. {THREAD}

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

5 years

Out now: “Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making” Led by @froemero1 with @cdeanwolf :

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

So proud of the incredible folks in the @ShenhavLab who came out to teach our community about decision-making and cognitive control! @joonhwakm @YiHsinSu1 @JasonLeng5 (+ twitter-less James & Aislinn) 🧠🎉🙌 @BrainWeekRI @CarneyInstitute

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Amitai Shenhav

5 months

Just an astounding breadth and depth of accomplishment for someone so early in their career! The defense captured a mere subset of these, and was brilliantly executed! 👏 Truly a proud mentor moment to be there to celebrate the newly minted Dr. @JasonLeng5 ! 🎉🥳

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Shenhav Lab

5 months

Congratulations to DOCTOR @JasonLeng5 on the exceptional defense of his remarkable dissertation!! We’re so proud of everything he’s accomplished and we're excited to see his star continue to rise⭐️

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Amitai Shenhav

7 months

We're also hiring! We are looking for at least one full-time RA/lab manager to join the newly located @ShenhavLab this summer. Please RT and pass this along to your best candidates!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Very excited about this new work now up as a preprint, the 1st (two) in a series of expts we've run over the last few yrs to decompose processing of mental effort incentives. I couldn't possibly summarize it better than @froemero1 so instead I'll just point you to her thread! -->

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Romy Frömer

4 years

Preprint alert: @hauselin @cdeanwolf @minzlicht @amitaishenhav and I investigated how we determine to invest cognitive effort. --> thread

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Congratulations to my brilliant colleague @orielf on winning the Early Career Award from the @SocforNeuroecon !!! So well deserved! 🤩🍾👏🏻🥳🎉

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Awe-struck by the incredible job that the @affectScience Program Committee did in planning this year's virtual #SAS2021 conference!! 👏👏 Thanks to their dedication and hard work behind the scenes, the conference was a triumph by any measure!

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

We have an opening for a postdoc! Please share with anyone interested in studying fun questions at the intersection of decision-making, motivation, affect, & cognitive control. Details below but feel free to DM or email me if you have any questions about the position.

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

2 years

We’re looking for a new postdoc! If you’re interested in how people make cost-benefit decisions, including about mental effort, this offers the chance to explore such questions using multiple (neural, comp) methods with an amazing group of people. Pls RT!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Dear Pres Trump, We voted. You Lost. Please won't you kindly get the f**k out of our house. We have some deep cleaning to do. Yours, The Management

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

New preprint commenting on a recent paper in NHB: (original paper: ). Setting aside theoretical debates in this for now, I want to highlight 5 take-homes related to questions I often get about when & how control influences decisions:

Misdirected vigor: Differentiating the control of value from the value of control

Theories of dACC function have to contend with an increasingly long and diverse list of signals that have been tied to this region. To account for this apparent heterogeneity, we recently proposed a...

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Barely scratches the surface, but one of many ways we can show that #BlackLivesMatter is to try to level the playing field in terms of opportunities for advice and feedback for URM trainees. Here's a way of offering that, but if you're a trainee you can message/email me directly.

@SocietySpark

Spark Society

4 years

Do you have a Ph.D. in psych, neuro or cogsci? @SocietySpark is looking for volunteers to provide constructive & timely feedback for URM trainees on papers & grants. Find out more and sign up here:

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

It can be hard to tell sometimes just how much work went into a paper, but it’s impossible to read @harrison_ritz ’s new preprint and not see how much thought, care, and effort went into each of its many layers. I’m so proud of how this project has turned out! 😊

@harrison_ritz

Harrison Ritz

3 years

New preprint! Excited to finally share a project that I've been working on since my first year of grad school. "Humans reconfigure target and distractor processing to address distinct task demands" 🧵⤵️

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

We have a position available for a full-time RA/lab manager! Please RT and share with potential candidates! We also anticipate potentially hiring a new postdoc in the coming year so please reach out if interested.

ShenhavLab_ResearchAssistantAd.pdf

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

If you study topics related to mental effort, I highly recommend catching the 3rd iteration of this excellent meeting. This year promises can't-miss talks (Danny Kahneman @YukoMunakata1 @DaniSBassett @minzlicht ), wide-ranging expert tutorials, submitted posters, &...Providence!

@EffortMental

Mental Effort Workshop

2 years

Register now for the 3rd Workshop on Mental Effort 2022 (Nov 21-22) in Providence, RI @BrownCLPS : The workshop is designed to facilitate exchange of ideas between researchers studying mental effort across different disciplines and modeling frameworks. 1/4

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

So lucky to get to work with this amazing (and zany) crew!! ☺️

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

4 years

That's the way we all became the Shenhav Bunch!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

My lab is 🔥🔥🔥 (and they are also the best!) ❤️ ⁦ @ShenhavLab ⁩

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

An extra thank you to @joonhwakm for all of her incredible work as lab manager, and also for a beautiful and very thoughtful parting gift!! 🥹

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@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

1 year

We are sad to say goodbye to our amazing lab manager @joonhwakm , but are also excited for her as she gets ready to start the next year as a PhD student at @BrownUNeuro ! Congratulations Joonhwa, and thank you for everything you’ve done for the lab over the last two years!❤️

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

When a lab lunch turns into a virtual home-schooling session... 😀👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 #luckyPI

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Congratulations to @UoB_SoP on its choice of one of the most brilliant scientists to join its dept, & to @froemero1 on the incredible new position! We're in despair/denial about you leaving, but incredibly proud (dare I say, chuffed) & excited to see you start your own lab!🎉🙌🏻👏🏻

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Romy Frömer

2 years

It is official! Following an impressive array of recent announcements, I, too, am here to let you know that I accepted an offer to join @unibirmingham @UoB_SoP @TheCHBH @LES_UniBham , starting January, as an Assistant Professor. 🥳

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Come work with us! These projects will offer great training opportunities for anyone interested in post-bacc research experience before applying to grad school.

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

3 years

We have a position for a full-time RA starting next summer! Come join us to work on NIH- and NSF-funded projects exploring the neural and computational basis of motivation, decision-making, and cognitive control. Please share with potential candidates!

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

So excited to have this out! 🎉 Congrats to @harrison_ritz for leading the effort on this work, and to @JasonLeng5 !! 👏🏻

@harrison_ritz

Harrison Ritz

3 years

Now published in JoCN in a special issue for @amitaishenhav and @Anne_On_Tw 's young investigator awards! In-press version available here: w/ nicer figures, discussions on RL and heuristics, and a little state inference as a treat. thanks reviewer!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

New preprint led by our PhD student @JasonLeng5 , with @debyee29 and @harrison_ritz . What I love about this project is that it combines a novel empirical dissociation with a straightforward normative model, & shows how to use this model to infer motivational states from behavior.

@JasonLeng5

Jason Leng

4 years

Excited to share my first preprint “Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control” looking at how reward and punishment modulate cognitive control allocation in a new temporal cognitive control task! A thread:

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Congratulations @harrison_ritz ! I'm so proud to have been part of your research journey and to see all of your impressive accomplishments over that time. Your defense, and the body of research it encompassed, was one more shining example of the incredible scientist you've become!

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

2 years

Congratulations to DOCTOR @harrison_ritz on an outstanding defense of an equally outstanding dissertation!! 👏🏻👏🏻 The graduation of our 1st PhD student is a bittersweet moment for the lab, but we are all excited to see Harrison’s star continue to rise and burn brightly! ⭐

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

I'm thrilled this new preprint is out! This work, spearheaded by the amazing @JasonLeng5 , reflects a new direction in the lab's work on decision-making that I'm super excited about. 🧵 below tells you all about it, but here are a few other reasons I've esp enjoyed this project:

@JasonLeng5

Jason Leng

1 year

Excited to share my latest preprint with @froemero1 , Thomas Summe, & @amitaishenhav : “Mutual inclusivity improves decision-making by smoothing out choice’s competitive edge” A short 🧵 1/

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Please #vote today if you haven’t already! Your vote matters and can help change the direction we’re headed as a country. #BidenHarris2020 If you aren’t sure where your polling place is, text MYVOTE to 977-79 or go to

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Frankly, I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't address the issue we're most concerned about: his Peloton

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

WOOHOO!!! CONGRATULATIONS to S4SN ECA winner and all-around rockstar @orielf !!! 🎉👑👏

@brain_apps

Prof. Matthew Apps

4 years

Congrats to @orielf and @OlgaDalMonte1 , winners of the 2020 S4SN early career awards in social neuro (). In a pool of fantastic candidates, these are worthy winners. Congratulations! Looking forward to your talks on Feb 3rd .

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Apropos of nothing, this is probably a good time to reiterate how insanely lucky I was to be mentored by the incredible @LFeldmanBarrett and @wendybmendes ....

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

Speaking as one of the many beneficiaries of her outstanding mentorship, @wendybmendes couldn’t be more deserving of this award. Congratulations Wendy!! 👏🏻🎉

@affectScience

Society for Affective Science

1 year

And our #AffectScience2023 Mentorship in Affective Science Award goes to Wendy Berry Mendes ( @wendybmendes ) - congratulations!

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Amitai Shenhav

6 months

So proud to see this work - masterminded and led by the brilliant @harrison_ritz - get the attention it deserves! 😉

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

6 months

Trouble focusing? Our latest study, led by @harrison_ritz , provides new insights into how the brain controls multiple streams of information processing. Read about it in @NatureHumBehav or in the news story from @BrownUniversity !

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

We are hiring a new lab manager! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us to study fun questions and work with some of the best people I’ve ever met! Learn more about the lab at

www.shenhavlab.org

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

4 years

Position opening! We are looking to hire a lab manager/RA to start this summer. More details and a link to the application to come soon, but please let potential candidates know that they can email shenhavlab @brown .edu in the meantime to express interest.

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Congratulations to the always brilliant @orielf for this incredibly well-deserved award!! 👏🎉

@BrownCLPS

Brown Cog, Ling, & Psych Sciences

3 years

Oriel FeldmanHall named a recipient of the 2022 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of cognition and human learning. Congratulations!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

@NAChristakis with the winning analogy re: lack of national response to covid: "having a patchwork of responses is like designating one part of the swimming pool as suitable for urination, but not the other parts"

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

If you are interested in how people navigate environments with increasing risks, @laurafontanesi 's new preprint is for you! She shows that experiments which put ppl in this situation (e.g., BART task) risk confounding the value of cashing in and uncertainty about whether to do so

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

3 years

Check out our latest preprint, a collaboration with @SebastianGluth ’s lab led by @laurafontanesi , on “Disentangling choice value and choice conflict in sequential decisions under risk”

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

In which I endure the painful mental effort of opining on the extraordinary mental effort Todd Vogel and colleagues exerted to show that mental effort is painful. You win this round, @arossotto ...

@BrownUResearch

Brown Research

@BrownUResearch

4 years

In @LiveScience story, @BrownUniversity @BrownCLPS Prof @amitaishenhav talks about the lengths to which people go to avoid challenging mental tasks.

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Amitai Shenhav

5 years

I can’t imagine a better reminder of how fortunate I am to have such an incredible lab! 😊 @ShenhavLab

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

If you know of any stellar candidates for this position, please let them know we’re still taking applications for a full-time RA position in our lab! See below for details 👇

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

3 years

Interested in being a part of a stellar, welcoming team of people working on questions at the intersection of decision-making and cognitive control? There is still time left to apply for our full-time RA position!

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

There’s still time to apply for our lab manager position! See ad below for more information and please RT!

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Shenhav Lab

3 years

Update on our lab manager position opening (starting this summer)! ⭐️🧠 The formal application is now live, so if you are interested in this position please read the job description here and apply via the link in the document: .

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Check out @froemero1 's new preprint!! She shows that people often miss something critical in neural value signals AND think what they do find is something it's not (evidence accumulation). If her findings don't knock your socks off, you need to re-examine your choice of socks...

@froemero1

Romy Frömer

2 years

You make a decision. Your brain shows signals related to the values of your options. So the brain signals must be related to your decision. Right? Wrong! It turns out there’s more and less to what we thought were decision-making signals. 🧵

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

@ajshackman @Nate__Haines @PessoaBrain Happy to share any materials! Here's the current syllabus: This semester we've been lucky to have virtual visits from all-stars @RobbRutledge @j_a_westbrook @DeanMobbs @aliocohen @affectivebrain @JASilvers @torwager +H. Kober, J. Cavanagh, B. Park, D. Stout

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

If you want to know why it’s hard for us to shift between different goals throughout the day, don’t miss this truly innovative theoretical and empirical approach to answering that question, spearheaded by @GrahekIvan and @JasonLeng5 ! 🎉🎉

@GrahekIvan

Ivan Grahek

1 year

After scrolling Twitter, it will take you a while to get back into “work mode”. Why is this the case? In our new work, @JasonLeng5 , @smusslick , @amitaishenhav , and I explore the costs of adjusting cognitive control to meet different goals: A thread:

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

NBD, just @GrahekIvan wowing a crowd at #cns2023 with his latest findings! 🤩

@postlelab

postlelab

1 year

Meanwhile, in SF ⁦ @ShenhavLab ⁩ #cns2023

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Beyond proud is a perfect description of how all of us felt leaving that auditorium. Congratulations DR. @lauraabusta on a terrific defense, and thank you for filling that space with your wisdom, compassion, and advocacy! 👏🏻👏🏻

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Andres Bustamante

2 years

My sister @lauraabusta defended her dissertation @PrincetonNeuro 🥂🍾Proud isn’t the word. More like she’s my hero! Filled an auditorium with ppl from around the 🌎, gave a brilliant talk, and ended with a powerful commentary on neurodiversity and asset based framing #PhDone

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

Congratulations @harrison_ritz on this super impressive line of work! So happy to have this out! 👏🎉

@harrison_ritz

Harrison Ritz

1 year

At long last, our paper is in press at Psych Review! We find: - people can independently control attention towards targets and distractors - control occurs dynamically within-trial - control dynamics are well-captured by our attractor network model

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Congratulations to @harrison_ritz and @JasonLeng5 on this excellent new review!

@harrison_ritz

Harrison Ritz

3 years

Excited to share a preprint of our new theory paper 'Cognitive control as a multivariate optimization problem' Cognitive control has an inverse problem, and motor control might have the solution 🧵⤵️

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Half of the work our lab does borrows methods/insights from decision-making research to study cognitive control. We've written a few reviews of that work over the past few years. This new preprint led by @froemero1 is our first time reviewing the *other* half of what we do...

@ShenhavLab

Shenhav Lab

3 years

We have *two* new preprints just out! The first, led by our postdoc @froemero1 is called “Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making.”

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Congratulations @LFeldmanBarrett !! So so so well-deserved! 🎉🎉

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Daniel J. Barrett

@DanielJBarrett

3 years

Congratulations to my brilliant spouse, @LFeldmanBarrett , who has been awarded one of #Psychology 's highest honors, the @APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

I had such a blast joining @ProfEmilyOster this week to talk about uncertainty, decision-making, stress, covid, and, yes, marbles! Thank you @CarneyInstitute @diane_lipscombe @cimoore444 for putting this on!

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Carney Institute for Brain Science

@CarneyInstitute

3 years

VIDEO 📽️: How uncertainty impacts decision-making – a conversation with @BrownUniversity Professors @amitaishenhav , @ProfEmilyOster , @diane_lipscombe and @cimoore444 . Watch ➡️ #BrownBrainScience @WatsonInstitute @BrownUNeuro @BrownCLPS

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

If your lab has any new and exciting work on mental effort that you would like to share, or if you just want to hear about other people's exciting work in this area, make sure to submit/register for the 2nd Workshop on Mental Effort by this Thursday, 7/15!

@EffortMental

Mental Effort Workshop

3 years

DEADLINE ALERT! Are you working on a project related to mental effort and want to discuss your ideas? Submit your poster abstract to the 2nd Workshop on Mental Effort (submission/registration deadline: July 15, 2021)! #lastminuteeffort #procastination

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

If you’re looking for one more reason to attend Brown’s Brain Fair this weekend, look no further! You and your family will have a chance to play games and learn about the brain with our amazing lab members! 🧠🎉 @CarneyInstitute

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Shenhav Lab

1 year

How do we make decisions, and how do we decide how much effort to put into what we do? Come explore these questions with the Shenhav Lab at the Brown Brain Fair this Saturday! We will have games that will demonstrate these concepts for all ages! #BrainAwarenessWeek 🧠🌟

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Huge congratulations to @orielf and @vpmurty !!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 So so so well-deserved!! 🎉🎉

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CNS 2025 Annual Meeting

3 years

#CNS2022 | Congratulations to Oriel FeldmanHall and Vishnu Murty for being awarded the 2022 Young Investigator Award. We look forward to hearing their award lectures at CNS 2022!

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

My hat's off especially to PC chair @rachaelejack , an all-around force of nature and one of the only people I know who could pull off coordinating such a complex effort. It was inspirational to have a birds-eye view of the work she and the rest of the PC did this past year! 🙌

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

#RLDM2022 folks come see @mpraterfahey @debyee29 @joonhwakm @froemero1 @JasonLeng5 present their kick-ass work!! 🎉🎉 🧵 below with poster locations and pdfs of the associated papers:

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Shenhav Lab

2 years

Attending #RLDM2022 ? Check out the fantastic posters being presented by members of our lab (IDs 1.141, 1.110, 2.113, & 2.140) during the poster sessions this Thursday and Friday, 4:30pm-7pm! Described in 🧵below, hope to see you all there!😎🥳

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Amitai Shenhav

9 months

So proud to see this new work out as a preprint, co-led by @mpraterfahey (her first of many!) and @debyeeneuro ! 🥳👏🏻🎉 They tackle the problem from several angles (behavior, modeling, experience) and offer an unambiguous conclusion to an important question. Check it out!

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Mahalia

9 months

Excited to share my first preprint paper with co-first author @debyeeneuro , along with @JasonLeng5 , Maisy Tarlow, and @amitaishenhav “Motivational context determines the impact of aversive outcomes on mental effort allocation”: 🧵

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Our lab is expanding our social media presence, and with it our public outreach, and would love your help in getting the word out!

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Shenhav Lab

4 years

Announcing our Instagram and FB pages! On these platforms we will be sharing opportunities to participate in PAID online studies, as well as cognitive neuroscience tidbits for the general public. Please retweet to spread the word! +

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Amitai Shenhav

6 years

Excited to have this out!

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Shenhav Lab

6 years

Our new paper on the dissociable roles of the vmPFC and (different parts of) dACC when deciding what to attend and how to respond:

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Amitai Shenhav

7 years

First PhD student's first journal submission! Go @harrison_ritz ! #kvelling

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Shenhav Lab

7 years

New preprint from our lab, led by @harrison_ritz , applies control theory to adaptive behavior in dynamic settings:

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Don't miss today's exciting speaker line-up in a symposium on affect & politics/partisanship ( @PaulaNiedenthal , @Morteza57619226 , @NathanKalmoe , @RobbWiller ) followed by open Q&A w/ Affective Science editors @wendybmendes , @bob_levenson , and James Gross! Registration still open!

@affectScience

Society for Affective Science

4 years

Reminder to register & attend our exciting mini-virtual #2020SAS TODAY, featuring the Presidential Symposium, Presidential Announcements, and an "Ask-an-Editor" Salon with the editors of Affective Science!

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Amitai Shenhav

6 years

Come join us!!

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Oriel FeldmanHall

6 years

We’re hiring! Tenure track assistant professor @BrownUniversity in human cognition - all areas of human cognition will be considered - starting July 2019. Apply here please RT! @CogNeuroJobs @NeuroRumblr @affectScience @SANS_news

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

Must-see lineup! @debyee29 @TarazLee @YuanChangLeong @iancballard

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CNS 2025 Annual Meeting

3 years

#CNS2022 | Symposium 11 - Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Motivational Influences on Decision-Making Chair: Debbie Yee, Brown University Speakers: Taraz Lee, Ian Ballard, Yuan Chang Leong, Debbie Yee

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Congratulations to this incredible group of graduates! We’re so happy to have had you as part of our lab during your time at Brown! 🎉🐻🎓

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Shenhav Lab

2 years

Congratulations to our Class of 2022 graduating RA's @Selin_Baydar1 , Thomas Summe, Christopher Bravo, Keelin Lyons, and Maja Nieweglowska! It’s been wonderful having all of you in the lab- wishing you all the best on your next adventures!!🎉🎉

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Amitai Shenhav

5 years

Interested in hearing my (nonexpert) thoughts on why we procrastinate?When can I get them to you by? (and can I have an extension??)

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Congratulations @debyee29 on an extremely well-organized and well-executed seminar series with some of the greatest minds in aging neuroscience, who shared their science and their wisdom! 👏👏👏 For anyone who missed any of the series, check out the recordings below.

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Debbie Yee

4 years

Putting on this GRAN Webinar was a labor of love. As someone who identifies with all of you academic imposters (I'm convinced everyone on Twitter is afflicted to some degree), I have found that such candid convos about academia the most eye-opening in providing perspective 1/3

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Congratulations to @GrahekIvan and @froemero1 on this exciting new preprint! The latest in our "does effort even matter" series...in case that's familiar to anyone these days... 😬

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Ivan Grahek

4 years

New preprint out of the @shenhavlab with @froemero1 and @amitaishenhav , in which we investigate the mechanism through which people learn when the amount of mental effort they put into a task matters: A thread:

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Amitai Shenhav

6 years

We are looking for an awesome new lab manager! Please r/t to help get the word out!

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Come see Kaitlyn’s poster! It promises to be great fun for/about all ages!

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Shenhav Lab

2 years

Attending #SAS2022 ? Come see a poster by our RA Kaitlyn Mundy on Age-Related Differences in the Influence of Positive and Negative Motivational Incentives on Mental Effort, this Saturday 4/2 at 7:30am!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Come see @mpraterfahey present the first poster of her PhD at #Flux2020 tomorrow! 😀

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Shenhav Lab

4 years

If you're attending #Flux2020 , come see our grad student @mpraterfahey 's poster ( #1 -D-21) tomorrow (9/10) - "When is my effort worthwhile? Learned efficacy influences how adolescents allocate cognitive control"

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Coming up at 10:15am EST (the first talk of the conference!): @froemero1 on "Considering what we know and what we don't know: Expectations and metacognition guide value integration during economic choice"

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Shenhav Lab

4 years

Will we see you at #vSNE2020 ? Check out presentations from our lab members today: oral presentation by @froemero1 (Session 1), poster spotlight by @harrison_ritz (Poster Spotlight 1, R-47), and posters by @JasonLeng5 (N-19) and @maisy_tar (Poster Session 1, R-49) ⚖️🧠

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Congratulations and fantastic job Dr. @jpheffne !! 👏 We've been really lucky to have you be a part of @BrownCLPS , and one of the founding members of Team Origami! Really looking forward to continuing to follow your excellent line of work!

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Oriel FeldmanHall

2 years

Feeling all the feels! So proud of @jpheffne for such an amazing dissertation defense! You are such a rockstar and I feel so lucky to have been able to work with you over the past 6 years! Thank you for making me a better scientist! Next up @Yale !

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Amitai Shenhav

1 year

Congratulations Sydney, Kaitlyn, and Sam!!! 🎉🥳🎓So proud of these 3 ☺️

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Shenhav Lab

1 year

Congratulations to our graduating seniors, who are off to exciting adventures as RAs at McLean ( @Sydney_Tucker11 ) & Columbia (Kaitlyn Mundy), & a Fulbright in Uruguay (Sam Nevins)! We’re so proud of all you’ve accomplished & wish you the best in the next steps of your journeys!🎉

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Two must-see events at #CNS2022 !! 👀Make sure to catch @GrahekIvan and @debyee29 !

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Shenhav Lab

2 years

Going to #CNS2022 ? Come check out a @GrahekIvan 's poster on Reconfiguration Costs in Cognitive Control Sunday 4/24 at 8am PT, and a symposium organized by & starring @debyee29 on Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Motivational Influences on Decision-Making Tuesday 4/26 at 1:30 PM!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

...and by the informal mentors I've had that are too numerous to count, like @masherid , @uma_karma , @ka_lindquist , @orielf , @fennamk and Dima Amso (and on and on and on)....

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Amitai Shenhav

5 years

Sometimes, it's hard to come up with examples of how we can avoid temptations like social media without self-control. Other times, it's GoT spoiler season…

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

When you struggle to find the right conjunction to put into a subheading...

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

If you’re at #vSNE2021 you won’t want to miss these two!

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Shenhav Lab

3 years

Attending #vSNE2021 ? Come see posters by @harrison_ritz (1-I-30, Wed) on decision-making processes that look like control but aren’t, and by @froemero1 (2-I-56, Thurs) on EEG patterns that look like evidence accumulation but aren’t! @SocforNeuroecon

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Amitai Shenhav

7 years

Please send your best and brightest! They should feel free to contact me if they have any questions.

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Shenhav Lab

7 years

We’re accepting PhD students for Fall 2018! If you’re interested in some of these topics: , we encourage you to apply

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

We're incredibly lucky to have had @yue_l_zhang as a part of our lab these past four years!! She couldn't be more deserving of this award 👏🏻👏🏻

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Shenhav Lab

3 years

We’re so proud of @yue_l_zhang whose senior honors thesis, “Make-or-break: The Influence of Expected Challenges and Rewards on the Motivation and Experience Associated with Cognitive Effort Exertion”, has been awarded the @BrownCLPS Premium for Excellence in Cog Neuro!!🎉🧠🎉

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Amitai Shenhav

5 years

Congratulations @lauraabusta on the first of many impressive papers to come!!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

5 years

Behold, my first ever ~ #publication ~! [..in submission] Loads of fun working with @FalkLieder @smusslick @amitaishenhav and Jon Cohen on this project that was #years in the making: Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task via @OSFramework

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Amitai Shenhav

3 years

One of my favorite things about kosher for passover pasta is that it makes for one less hurdle to pretending to keep kosher for passover

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Amitai Shenhav

8 months

So so proud to see Anna and Linda’s ( @yue_l_zhang ) brilliant theses transformed into even more impressive preprints! Please check out the amazing work that these two did before they were even PhD students! 👏🏻🙌🏻

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Shenhav Lab

8 months

Excited to bring in the holiday season with TWO new preprints from former honors thesis students Anna Xu (’18) and Linda Zhang @yue_l_zhang (’21)!!📚🧠🎉 Details in the 🧵:

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Amitai Shenhav

5 years

Check out the awesome line-up of speakers at this symposium on aging research in neuroscience, coordinated by our postdoc @debyee29 !

@growingupaging

GrowingUpAgingNeuro

@growingupaging

5 years

Registration for GRAN2020 is Open! Deadline to register for the event is Friday, March 6. Check out our website below and please RT!

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Amitai Shenhav

4 years

Amazing and clearly explained website one of the PhD students in my lab @harrison_ritz put together to perform online comparisons between the 538 and Economist election forecasts!

@harrison_ritz

Harrison Ritz

4 years

There's been a lot of healthy debate about how to best prediction the outcomes of tuesday's elections. I put together a website in order to compare the model predictions from @NateSilver538 @FiveThirtyEight against @StatModeling @TheEconomist .

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

Congratulations @LFeldmanBarrett and James!! Truly so well-deserved! 🎉🎉

@affectScience

Society for Affective Science

2 years

For our inaugural 2022 Mentorship Award in Affective Science, please join us in congratulating Lisa Feldman Barrett ( @LFeldmanBarrett ) & James Gross of @StanfordPsych for their outstanding mentorship contributions in affective science!

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Amitai Shenhav

11 months

The best new entry into this site!

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ACCB Lab

11 months

👋We’re the Adaptive Control of Cognition and Behavior Lab’s official twitter account. Give us a follow to get updates on what we’re up to. Also please say hi if you feel like it!

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Amitai Shenhav

2 years

For any trainees potentially interested in attending #RLDM2022 , this year we are holding a (limited-capacity) speed networking lunch with opportunities to meet with leaders in the field. Register by the early-bird deadline to be entered in a lottery to participate in this event!

@BrownBigAI

bigAI

2 years

Reminder to all reinforcement learning researchers out there, #RLDM2022 is approaching and will be held in person at @BrownUniversity ! Organized by @BrownCSDept and @CarneyInstitute , early registration is open until May 15 at

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