Attending #CNS2024 in Toronto?🇨🇦🧠

Come visit Ziwei Cheng's poster “The influence of incentives on performance generalizes across cognitive control tasks” this Saturday! CNS 2024 Annual Meeting

Info: April 13, 2:30-4:30 EDT / ID: A105
cogneurosociety.org/poster-session…

Congratulations to DOCTOR Jason Leng 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⭐️

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 Nature Human Behaviour or in the news story from Brown University!

nature.com/articles/s4156…
brown.edu/news/2024-03-0…

Attending #SAS2024 ?

Former thesis student Sydney Tucker will be presenting her poster 'Task demands influence expectations of difficulty and motivation to exert mental effort' (P3.G.237) on 3/3 from 3:15-4:30 PM!🪜💪🧠

Society for Affective Science #AffectScience2024

Come join us in our new home at UC Berkeley UCBerkeley Psychology☀️🐻!!

We are recruiting a full-time RA/lab manager to start in summer 2024. Check out our website for information about how to apply: shenhavlab.org/join-us

Congrats to undergraduate RA Rohan Kumaran for publishing an awesome piece on task switching and cognitive control in The Triple Helix, Brown’s undergraduate and graduate science blog!🧠

Check it out here: brown-tth.com/post/controlli…

Among the many things we are grateful for today is the opportunity to share our newest preprint, co-led by Mahalia and Debbie Yee, Ph.D., where we disentangle the influence of outcome valence & motivational context on mental effort: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🎉🎉
🧵 below...

Attending #sjdm2023 today?

Grad student Yi-Hsin (Sheen) Su 蘇誼炘 will be presenting his poster “Characterizing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of choice deferral” from 4:45-6:30pm (poster 34). Come check it out 🧠🙌

Attending #SNE2023 ? Come check out grad student Yi-Hsin (Sheen) Su 蘇誼炘's fantastic poster 'Characterizing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of choice deferral' (ID: P2-I-28) during Poster Session 2 on 10/14 from 2:45-4:00 PDT!!🙌🇨🇦

Attending MCC2023? Go see Romy Frömer's talk 'Neural underpinnings of..evaluation of control to determine how much mental effort is worth investing” & Mahalia’s poster 66 “Understanding the devel. trajectory of learning & adjusting to..perceived efficacy of one’s efforts”!🇫🇷

Check out our newest preprint, led by Ivan Grahek and Jason Leng, and in collaboration with Sebastian Musslick: 'Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a theoretical account' 🎯🏃‍♂️🎉
Ivan describes the findings in the 🧵below:

Our paper, 'Humans reconfigure target and distractor processing to address distinct task demands,' led by Harrison Ritz, is now in press at Psych Review!! 🥳 For more information about the study, see Harrison's thread below:

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