Reposted by Gökhan AydoganNiklas Buergi @niklasbuergi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Autism has long been linked to difficulties with Theory of Mind. But what exactly is driving these differences? And what happens in the brain? In our new preprint, we show that adaptive mentalization might be key. A 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro osf.io/preprints/ps... 13715
Reposted by Gökhan AydoganArkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social · 09/03/2026📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4) 1289
Reposted by Gökhan AydoganDepartment of Economics @Universität Zürich🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 09/03/2026A study by @niklasbuergi.bsky.social, @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social, @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social, @ccruff.bsky.social at @zne-uzh.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Gökhan AydoganNiklas Buergi @niklasbuergi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs? Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA neural signature of adaptive mentalization | Nature Neuroscience 18730
Reposted by Gökhan AydoganbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 07/11/2025War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 032
Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025🚨 Paper alert 👇 Does war trauma leave a lasting imprint on civilians’ brains🧠? We analyzed ~40k MRIs in the #UKBiobank, including ~6k of people born during WWII. Those exposed to close bombings in-utero show differences in brain structure, even decades later. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 121
Reposted by Gökhan AydoganbioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 07/11/2025War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 031
Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 05/11/20251/ 🚨 New preprint: Acute stress doesn’t just change feelings—it warps how big payoffs look, pushing people to be more risk-seeking than usual. 👉 “Acute stress reduces risk-aversion by changing magnitude perception.” doi.org/10.1101/2025... @gillesdehollander.bsky.social @saurabhbedi.bsky.socialdoi.orgAcute stress reduces risk-aversion by changing magnitude perceptionStress is thought to impair financial decision-making by influencing the willingness to take risks. This effect is commonly attributed to stress-related changes in affective evaluation of rewards and ... 110
Reposted by Gökhan AydoganArkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social · 15/09/2025📢 New preprint 📢 (with Daniil Luzyanin) We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 053
Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025👉Great work by my colleagues at @econ.uzh.ch 000
Reposted by Gökhan AydoganSaurabh Bedi @saurabhbedi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025📢 Preprint out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... What gives rise to probability weighting, a cornerstone of Prospect Theory? We show it comes from the natural boundedness of probabilities + cognitive noise. Adding boundaries adds multiple distortions, across risky choice & perception.biorxiv.orgProbability weighting arises from boundary repulsions of cognitive noiseIn both risky choice and perception, people overweight small and underweight large probabilities. While prospect theory models this with a probability weighting function, and Bayesian noisy coding mod... 12212
Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024🤔How do humans anticipate an opponent's moves in strategic games? Excited to share our latest work on #mentalization in strategic games. After years of work, we've empirically validated our new model, behaviorally (N~500) and neurally (N~100) 🧠 a 🧵 (1/5) 132