Ellie Holton

Very excited our study on how goals shape choice is out now in @NatureHumBehav with @NilsKolling @jangrohn @BrainInTheMind and Jill O'Reilly! nature.com/articles/s4156…

In praise of folly: flexible goals and human cognition 'Opinion' by Junyi Chu (@JunyiChu), Josh Tenenbaum, & Laura Schulz Free access through June 2: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iwOJ4sIRvTA…

Are you a clinical psychologist interested in computational modeling? The Niv lab will be looking for a postdoc in computational psychiatry/psychotherapy and we are especially keen on people with a clinical background. Email me with CV & research statement if this is you!

I'm excited to announce that this work has been accepted at @NeurIPSConf 🥳 We hope to spark cross-disciplinary conversations on goal selection in biological and artificial agents. Check it out at openreview.net/forum?id=GbqzN… @cedcolas @pyoudeyer @Anne_On_Tw @FlowersINRIA @ccnlab

Check it outtt!!!

✨Rethinking reinforcement learning: the interoceptive origins of reward doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… An honour and *absolute delight* bouncing ideas with these brilliant women: @debyeeneuro @danamsmall @rikepetzschner What are primary reward signals and where do they come from?

Excited that the preprint for the work from my first two years of PhD at @summerfieldlab is out! In this work, we examine the role of action prediction errors (APEs) in cognitive control: osf.io/5ezxs (1/4)

New lab pre-print from the wonderful @ToddVogelPsych! - we show that the richness of the environment influences how willing people are to interrupt what they are doing to help other people👇

Phenomenal cover art illustrating our recent study on goal persistence by the incredible illustrator Magdalena Adomeit with @NilsKolling

Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation nature.com/articles/s4156… with @DrJoCutler @BrainInTheMind + many others. We show multiple causal roles of vmPFC in prosocial motivation, effort and reward in a rare large cohort with focal vmPFC damage

We are hiring a Professional Specialist for a new NIMH Conte Center for Understanding Latent Cause Inference in Health and Illness shared between Princeton and Rutgers (the job is at Princeton, working directly with me, and is partly a position in my lab). More info: /1

Pleased to share my latest research "Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model" about a glimpsing neural network model that learns visual structure (here, number) in a way that generalises to new visual contents.

Check out our manuscript on the flexible use of temporal expectations in the absence of spatial or motor certainty: journalofcognition.org/articles/10.53… @JCgntn 🤸⌛️ big team effort, and even bigger fun, with @KiaNobre and @SageBoettcher