Nir Moneta
@nir_moneta
Cognitive neuroscientists | Schuck lab | queer scientist 🏳️🌈 | currently into task representations in the 🧠 (NaN/NaN) http://bsky.app/profile/nirmoneta.bsky.social
What happens when choices can lead to diff outcomes, depending on context? See our work on how state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant AND irrelevant expected values signals, out in @NatureComms w/ @mona_garvert @haukeren & @nico_schuck [1/n] rdcu.be/ddq89
![nir_moneta's tweet image. What happens when choices can lead to diff outcomes, depending on context? See our work on how state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant AND irrelevant expected values signals, out in @NatureComms
w/ @mona_garvert @haukeren & @nico_schuck [1/n] rdcu.be/ddq89](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fxd-Gj8WIAUJMwZ.png)
Are you coming to @RLDMDublin2025 #RLDM2025? Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮🧠🪄 w/ @OndrejZika @ingrdmrtn
It’s a Preprint! 👋 We show how we can dissociate perceptual from value-based mechanisms of generalisation + that stronger generalisation in anxiety is associated with value rather than perception. w/ @OndrejZika @nico_schuck @BernhardSpitzer osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/n
🚨Very excited that our (@lui_anta @ingrdmrtn & myself) RLDM 2025 Workshop "Game on: Leveraging Gamification to Understand Cognitive and Computational Mechanisms" has been accepted! We will soon be opening a call for contributed talks - stay tuned if you are interested!
Friends, this is urgent. Families in Gaza are starving and need our help. I have donated to and been following this soup kitchen since they started. They provide hot meals to thousands & they need funds to keep going. Please consider donating & sharing. gofund.me/aab9459d
Super excited to be going to #NeurIPS to present new work on softly state-invariant world models! We introduce an info bottleneck making world models represent action effects more consistently in latent space, improving prediction and planning! Reach out if you want to meet!
Excited to announce that this work has now been published in @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We propose a computational account of how humans decompose complex dynamical experiences into subprocesses and reuse these in an abstract, compositional manner in novel situations.
As promised, here’s the summary thread🧵: The study presented in this preprint investigates how humans decompose dynamical subprocesses and leverage the abstracted subprocesses for compositional reuse of experience in new situations. 1/n
This is finally out today in @PLOSCompBiol - find the final updated and improved version here: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… with @nico_schuck @summerfieldlab @SaxeLab @PMuhleKarbe and twitterless Léo
New Preprint! We often learn gradually, but sometimes things occur to us in a flash, aka aha-moment. Why? We explored the comp. mechanisms of spontaneous periods of fast learning & show they arise even in simple NNs. arxiv.org/abs/2302.11351
Interested in getting hands-on skills in cognitive neuroscience? We are looking for 1-2 research assistants to support our research at @PB_UniHH @unihh Come work with our amazing team. Hamburg students from all departments are eligible. More about us: schucklab.gitlab.io
🚨 New preprint on the role of eating disorder symptoms in accelerating response vigor during foraging decisions 💫 w/ Sam Hall-McMaster 📜Link: osf.io/preprints/psya… 💻Code and data: github.com/ozika/ed-forag… Funded by @AvHStiftung @mpib_berlin
Can LLMs do reinforcement learning in-context - and if so, how do they do it? Using Sparse Autoencoders, we find that Llama 3 relies on representations resembling TD errors, Q-values and even the SR to learn in three RL tasks in-context! Co-lead with the inimitable @can_demircann
Excited to share our brand-new work shedding some light on the neural mechanisms behind one of human’s coolest cognitive feats: compositional generalization of structural knowledge! A Tweeprint-Thread 🧵 1/n
Check out this press release for some more info about my #ERCStG
Hats off! @TheCharleyWu receives a 1.5M euro ERC Starting Grant. His project C4 aims to revolutionize our understanding of human intelligence by uniting compositionality and cumulative culture into a mathematical framework. kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/786310/news_pu… @ERC_Research @ml4science
⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ PhD alert! Do your PhD with me and use Reinforcement Learning to study how misinformation affects us. Deadline: October 7. Please RT! For more information: findaphd.com/phds/project/c…
Do we learn differently from surprises as we age? We asked this using a RL task that deconfounded outcome probability & PE magnitude. Older adults learned more from large PEs than young adults. t.ly/DhjLo Fun teamwork w @koch_means_cook @OndrejZika @rasmusbruckner
💫🚨 #CCN2024 Curious about different mechanisms of generalization? Check out poster B26 by @lui_anta on how there seem to be genuine (+ stable) individual differences in generalization mechanisms, and how these relate to anxiety. Work with @nico_schuck and @BernhardSpitzer 👇
Looking forward to amazing science and many familiar faces #CCN2024! We'll show some work on -aversive generalisation @lui_anta (B26) -anxiety & uncertainty @Hashimsat (B27) -generalisation of past solutions @SHallMcMaster (C114) -sleep & insight @anika_loewe (Talk on Fri!)