Computational cognitive scientist Assoc Professor @HebrewU
Jerusalem, Israel
Joined January 2011
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Happy to share our new work showing how social emotions such as anger and gratitude establish an interindividual form of actor-critic learning, which leads to the emergence of norms in groups of interacting individuals.
Now published at @APA_Journals: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-…
Is risk-taking shaped by decision-making or by learning? In a new @NatureComms paper led by @AlonErdman, we show that in experience-based risk-taking, very little variance is explained by decision-making (top), but a lot is explained by learning (bottom). nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Prediction is likely the most basic cognitive process, but we almost always think of it as applied forwards
In some environments, though, it's more efficient to apply it backwards - estimating the actions that will likely precede a given outcome
It turns out that's what we do👇
🚨 Beyond excited to share work w @eraneldar on Predecessor Representation in human choice is out now @NatureHumBehav
We show how PR or SR is more efficient due to the ratio of past:future states in an env in 6 studies!
Full paper: rdcu.be/dNWDV
Detailed thread 👇
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🚨 I am thrilled to announce I will begin next fall as assistant professor of psychology @BarIlanU!!
We will model computations explaining how we plan & why we worry, among other things: see 🧵 below.
Check out our website & get in touch if interested: sharplabbiu.github.io/
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It was really fun to think about mood variability in adolescence and how it might arise from adolescent-specific Reinforcement Learning together with fantastic @GregorovaKlara @eraneldar @ldeserno
A cognitive-computational account of mood swings in adolescence
Opinion by Klára Gregorová (@GregorovaKlara), Eran Eldar (@eraneldar), Lorenz Deserno (@ldeserno), and Andrea Reiter (@an_reiter)
OA: authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Friends, we have 2 upcoming fundraisers for the super important fight for democracy in Israel, with leaders of the protest (and me), in person in NYC. One is already sold out, but the other still has tickets! Please help spread the word!
To register: go.kaplanforce.com/KaplanInT…
ALT Invitation to KaplanForce fundraiser with Roee Neuman, Or-ly Barlev and Yael Niv, on Monday, 18 Sept, 6:30PM at Hasalon, 735 10th Ave, NYC. Registration at go.kaplanforce.com/KaplanInTheCity or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/716788883847
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The Israeli government's targeting of academia is not incidental. Free academy is an obstacle for regimes that operate in an arbitrary, tyrannical way, to promote personal and sectorial interests. More in my column today in @ynetnews t.ly/c6Kg7
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ההתקפה על האקדמיה אינה מקרית. אקדמיה חופשית היא בלם למשטר שפועל לא לטובת הציבור אלא באופן שרירותי, לקידום אינטרסים אישיים ומגזריים קצרי טווח. זו הסיבה שאנשי האקדמיה מחויבים כל כך למאבק בהפיכה המשטרית. הסבר בטור שלי היום ב @ynetnews
t.ly/dAiOl
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We need to understand subjective feelings better. Computational models can help.
Great commentary by @StePalminteri @RomaneCecchi on three (!!) new reviews on models of subjective feelings in NBR inc. our own.
A great intro to this exciting new field! authors.elsevier.com/a/1h5bP…
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"objective models of subjective feelings"
a short commetary written with @RomaneCecchi about three amazing reviews recently published in NBR by @RobbRutledge, @eraneldar @FabienVinckier and their teams
authors.elsevier.com/a/1h5bP…
We're hiring! A fully funded 2-year postdoc to study the computations we use to think, feel, learn, & plan.
To find out more about our research, take a look at our webpage at sites.google.com/site/eldare…, and feel free to contact me for further information.
pic: view from campus
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delighted to feature this excellent work in #psynomCABN
Why are biases common in reasoning? #psynomCABN paper @paul_b_sharp @FradkinIsaac @eraneldar propose it's not just because we rely on heuristics to simplify decisions–biases might come from complicated forms of inference. Post by @kllycttn @PillaiRaunak
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A new Science paper found dopamine implements learning of *backward* predictions in rodents @vijay_mkn. In 4 preregistered studies (n=1201), I and @eraneldar find humans also learn these & adaptively switch their learning and planning direction 🧵(1/n) psyarxiv.com/wdbg4
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הרפורמה/הפיכה היא אמצעי, לא מטרה. היא נועדה כדי להכשיר שלל חוקים ונהלים שיפגעו בחופש שלנו, בשיויון, ובמרקם החברתי. נשמע מופשט, אז ניתחנו את התוכניות של הקואליציה, כך שנוכל לראות מה צפוי לנו. בואו נראה איפה זה פוגש כל אחד ואחת מאיתנו. reform4me.co.il/
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@nessambrown , @ATsypes , Tim Allen and I in close collaboration with Michael Hallquist, @aidangcw and @eraneldar are hiring research assistants:
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Can we use computational accounts of emotions to better understand emotional disturbances? In our new paper (doi.org/10.1007/s00213-023-0…), @eraneldar and I expand the "emotions as computations" framework /1
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1/5 New paper by @NGoldway, @cate_hartley, @eraneldar and Gal Shoval, out now in @BiologicalPsyc1. The paper lays out a road map for how computational developmental psychiatry research can inform our understanding of addiction and anxiety authors.elsevier.com/c/1geko…
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🎉 New review article! 🎉
Computational models of subjective feelings can help us understand subjective psychiatric symptoms. By @ChangHaoKao1 @gloriawfeng @jihyuncindy_hur @huwbris in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews! doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.…🧵👇1/n
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adolescents have a reputation of being moody - it was fun to think with @GregorovaKlara @eraneldar and @ldeserno about how mood swings in adolescence might be explained with reinforcement learning -- new preprint here: psyarxiv.com/u62vr/ happy about any feedback!!
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Very excited to share 📢🎉 my first first-author paper out in @PLOSCompBiol, where @eraneldar , @paul_b_sharp and I demonstrate that the way humans encode preferences is adapted to the diversity of experiences offered by the immediate learning context.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
