Romy Frömer
@froemero1
Leg washer and round earther. Also trying to reduce uncertainty about the human mind. Assistant Professor @UoB_SoP @unibirmingham
I think this will be 🔥 and lots of fun! Come science with us!
New PhD scholarship opportunity for an exciting project on cognitive maps and causal inference! findaphd.com/phds/project/c… The project will have a fab supervisory team with @brain_apps and @froemero1 and will take place at @TheCHBH and @UoB_SoP.
I’m recruiting PhD students for my (soon-to-launch) lab at Boston University! If you’re interested in the intersection of computation, learning, & development, please reach out. I’ll be at #Flux2024 and #SNE2024 and am happy to meet up. cldlab.org
Don't miss the deadline! The application portal closes today!
Last day!!! If you want to join us as a Postdoc, apply now! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… Check us out on accb-lab.com
Interested in strategic decision-making and how the brain does it? 🤓🧠 Read @arkadykonovalov 's summary of the latest and greatest science right here👇
🚨 New preprint! Happy to share a preprint of a chapter written for the forthcoming book "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions"; any thoughts and feedback are most welcome! osf.io/preprints/psya…
Need a thrilling weekend reading recommendation? I might have just the thing for you! 👉rdcu.be/dTa5D Read the final paper @NatureHumBehav and don't skip the *peer review*!😱😱😱 Thanks to my brilliant collaborators @BenediktEhinger @NassarLab and @ShenhavLab !🧡🧡🧡
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. 🧵
Oh, hello there! You are looking for a postdoc position and you are curious about neural and computational mechanisms of flexible goal-directed decision-making? What a coincidence! We might be looking for you!
Join us!!! The ACC B Lab is looking for a postdoc to work with us on the neural and computational mechanisms of flexible decision-making, collaborating with @ShenhavLab and @GenPsychLab . Learn more and apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…
What a fantastic time this was! ☀️🧠
A little sad to draw a close to Control Processes 2024. But thank you all for the fantastic science, discussions and company. Safe travels back home and look forward to the next one in the Bay area!
Really impressive work by @magelssen_chr translating insights from cognitive research to real world elite sports! 🥇
Do elite athletes benefit from instruction and feedback from a coach? In our new preprint (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…), we tested whether slalom racers learn to make better strategy choices and therefore perform better with reinforcement learning than with instruction-based learning
Assistant/associate professor openings at the School of Psychology / @TheCHBH at the University of Birmingham. We have an energetic and innovative research community plus state-of-the-art brain imaging equipment including a brand-new OPM-MEG system. Apply 👇👇👇
Multiple assistant and associate professor positions at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ample opportunity to develop research at the Centre for Human Brain Health (@TheCHBH). jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ767/ass… jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ765/ass…
Very exciting times ahead for the OPM at @TheCHBH. Come and join us! Info in the below thread.
We did our first whole-head OPM recordings yesterday @TheCHBH (50 @FieldLineInc sensors, @CercaMagnetics MSR; @vpixx peripherals). It works! Now we need a postdoc to customize the system+software for paediatric recordings to study development of attention&reading. Apply 👇👇👇
🚨 PhD alert! Looking to recruit a PhD student (co-supervised by the fantastic @thepsychologist, via MIBTP funding) to study neurocomputational models of social behavior. If you are interested, please email me your CV and cover letter by Dec 1st! Details in 🧵 below. Please RT!
Do you also find yourself thinking about multivariate cognitive control all the time? No? 😱 But you should! Here's another one of @harrison_ritz 's fantastic contributions to our learning how this all works! This time with🧠.
The fMRI companion to our behavioral paper is now in press at Nature Human Behaviour! harrisonritz.github.io/assets/papers/… We find: - orthogonal encoding of targets & distractors (for difficulty & coherence) in FPN - coh reps depend on difficulty, behavior, and FPN connectivity (priority?)
This is a fun to read article that will really make you think again about some things you thought you understood. So good! 🤓🎯
The notion that goals are central to human cognition is intuitive, yet learning and decision-making researchers have often overlooked the topic. In this @TrendsCognSci article, @Anne_On_Tw and I propose it’s time to start studying goals in their own right authors.elsevier.com/a/1hjzw4sIRvPN…
Excited to be co-organising this conference on foraging at @HHMIJanelia! We've got a fantastic line up already confirmed and fees/lodging are included for all participants. Apply below👇
Join experts in cognitive and systems neuroscience, ethology, ecology + theory for an @HHMIJanelia conference focused on neural mechanisms of foraging in complex environments (across species!). Apply by Oct 15 @ bit.ly/FRG2024 @HHMINEWS @FoF_seminars
major update to our fMRI paper on orthogonal control representations biorxiv.org/content/10.110… a couple of highlights:
Excited to share the final chapter of my thesis! 🔖 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We wanted to understand how the brain can simultaneously coordinate multiple streams of information processing, and found it uses orthogonal attention subspaces. 🧵⬇️
The value we place on an option depends on the context and available alternatives. But why does getting $1 when the possibilities were 0 or 1 feel much better than when the possibilities were 1 or 10? 🧵👇 1/7
🔥🌶️ 🚒 A conversation starter for sure! Though other than to increase overall motivation in some participants, (extrinsic) incentives might be overrated in many tasks and as @arkadykonovalov himself concedes not necessary to generate sensible choice behavior. Food for thought!
🚨 new preprint! happy to share a short article I wrote to discuss eight problematic practices I often encounter as a reviewer in behavioral research; see the list attached. would be grateful for any advice on where to send it to reach a wider audience and of course any feedback
Should we always learn the same way? Hell no! Check out @AlanaJaskir ‘s impressive work to learn why not, how we do better and what dopamine has to do with that! Excellent 🧵👇🏼🌳
My first first-author paper is out! A slightly long thread, but what else are long weekends for?