Margot Gueguen

Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?

Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com

Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly

🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

Autistic and non-autistic prosocial decision-making: The impact of recipient neurotype A body of research suggests cross-neurotype interpersonal interactions may be more challenging, and non-autistic individuals show less interest in int…

Very happy to see this published! Registered report led by the fantastic Sophie Sowden-Carvalho (and with @thepsychologist.bsky.social & @brainapps.bsky.social) looking at effort-based prosocial decision-making in autistic and non-autistic adults. tinyurl.com/3upvukt2
See thread below for more info⭐️

Hemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglect Healthy individuals tend to exhibit a subtle leftward attentional bias, a phenomenon termed pseudoneglect. While this bias is thought to reflect a right-hemisphere dominance when allocating spatial at...

🧠✨ Preprint alert!

Ever noticed how most people (without realizing it) tend to see the left side of space a bit more strongly? In our new study, we show that this subtle quirk—called pseudoneglect—is linked to the asymmetry of putamen, a deep subcortical structure.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September!

This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.

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Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6 The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟

I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠

Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob
Deadline: 20th July ⏳
Start: From September 🗓️
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Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @Brown University. Amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/informa... and free!

Abstract submissions open until 7th July

w/ Romy Frömer, Ohad Dan, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Matt Nassar. Please share!

I can only recommend this fantastic summer school after attending last year! Left with lots of new skills & knowledge

The Computational and Neural Dynamics of Human Motivation and Cognitive Control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The Computational and Neural Dynamics of Human Motivation and Cognitive Control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New preprint! 🚨

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Does deciding when to help others depend on our environment? (spoiler: yes!)

Amazing line up for the brand new Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition (CSC) 2024!! Find out how to apply below 👇

Do Adolescents Learn Better From Reward or Punishment? New evidence shows reward and punishment learning differs across adolescence.

Do adolescents learn better from reward or punishment? New blog post in Psychology Today with @drjocutler.bsky.social and Ruth Pauli on our recent study nature.com/articles/s41... featuring work by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Cate Hartley, @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social, and inspired by many others!

Very excited to share this commentary written with @thepsychologist.bsky.social on predicting others' attention! 👀🎉

Interesting study on how the structure of social media platforms might increase polarization through learning. Nice combination of simulation and experiments journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We (@GueguenMargot @ToddVogelPsych, and I, @TheCHBH) are @ the Nobel Symposium on The Social Brain, celebrating 50 years since the Nobel Prize for individual and social behaviour patterns. Amazing line up @sjblakemore @GazzolaValeria @orielf @TheHongLab @DulacLab and many others!