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Obviously it's not nihilistic enough to post to this hellscape.
Come to @jimfcav.bsky.social to see.
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✨🎬 “Psychophys Is” 2025 videos are lighting up the contest! This video was submitted by Olivia Quintana, Mark Lavelle, Kumar Narayana & James F. Cavanagh.
Submit your video before October 1, 2025: sprweb.org/spr-video-contest…
James F Cavanagh retweeted
Our work from a great collaboration now out at Brain Stimulation: doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2025.0…
We find that 4 Hz STN stimulation in *humans* changes decision thresholds:
Data: narayanan.lab.uiowa.edu/ and osf.io/hsz3u
New paper coming out in BP:CNNI soon. I'll post a link to paper and data when available. But I'm done posting here.
Find me @jimfcav.bsky.social instead.
James F Cavanagh retweeted
Hogeveen et al., contrary to predictions, found no evidence of clinically significant depression after adolescent mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Depression in youth post-mTBI may not be as significant as in adults. Read at: tinyurl.com/5ywe2kda @JeremyHogeveen @JimCav
James F Cavanagh retweeted
Yay! Thanks to @DaveSegar, @JimCav, and @LnccBrown and others for an awesome collab! 🤩 We’re excited to share our findings on how complementary dynamics in the basal ganglia contribute to behavioral adaptability! 🧠🤓
Excited to share our new preprint, which explores how the basal ganglia affects human decision-making, particularly under conditions of conflict and uncertainty.
Awesome work by @NadjaGingJehli and the rest of the team. bit.ly/4guwgqo
James F Cavanagh retweeted
I will accept a PhD student (Clinical Psychology or Cognition, Brain & Behavior focused) to start at @UNM in Fall 2025. Please visit our website to learn more: thehinojosalab.com/for-stude…
Please feel free to reach out with any questions!
James F Cavanagh retweeted
Our forum discussing how 1-8 Hz delta/theta rhythms linked with cognitive control are decreased in Parkinson's patients with dementia and cognitive impairments is out at @TrendsCognSci
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3900…
Key for new biomarkers and treatments.
w/@rachelclarkcole @JimCav
Ahem. $1.1M.
Calling all data scientists and neuroscientists IN neuroscience, our application cycle is live! Apply by July 22 for our FINAL spot in the UNM FIRST cohort! Start date must be between Jan. - July 2025. Learn more here: unmfirst.unm.edu/apply-now/i…
ALT Image with hot air balloons against the sky with the text: Just some reasons to apply! Tenure-track 9-month salary (hard money). $650k (Data) or $1.1M (Neuro) startup package. 3 years of summer salary. 75% protected research time thru 2027
James F Cavanagh retweeted
Exciting news! We'll be re-opening our application cycle one last time for our final FIRST hire! We plan on opening this week (week of May 20) so keep an eye out and help spread the word! #academictwitter #academichiring #unmfirst #nihfirst
ALT Photo with text box saying: Big News - We'll be doing one more application cycle! Application date coming soon!
James F Cavanagh retweeted
#psynomCABN Special Issue! Elevated parietal alpha power is an EEG #biomarker for measuring motivation-related behavior in cross-species progressive ratio breakpoint tasks #amphetamine. @pharmichaelogy @JimCav @JaredWYoung bit.ly/3JZj1yS
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#psynomCABN Special Issue! This study unveils a rodent version of the #Reward #Positivity. By localizing cortical sources in mice, they show its relevance to reward processing & #learning. @JimCav bit.ly/44yHtRi
James F Cavanagh retweeted
It is with great pride that I officially announce that I will be joining the Department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico as an Assistant Professor in January 2025! To get my lab up and running I AM HIRING!!! (1/5)
Now up on bioRxiv: Chris Pirrung’s magnum opus + dissertation project: “Hypoactivation of ventromedial frontal cortex in major depressive disorder: an MEG study of the Reward Positivity”
tinyurl.com/38jntfc9 1/7
We think this offers a hint of why CTL>>MDD yet anhedonia is + correlated. First: anhedonia!=MDD. Second, we suggest this dissociation of intact reward info vs. deficient hedonics biases a higher-order model-based assessment of the task. 6/7
As we suggest, in anhedonia “rewards offer little more than the absence of punishment”. So punishment learning gets better. Novel hypotheses to test this idea are inside.
With @GarimaS26553539, @JeremyHogeveen & Davin Quinn 7/7