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Niklas Buergi @niklasbuergi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Autism 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...

Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors task used to study adaptive mentalization, alongside a schematic showing increasingly sophisticated reasoning strategies, from responding to past actions to trying to guess the opponent’s prediction about one’s own next action

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Arkady 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)

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Niklas Buergi @niklasbuergi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

How 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...

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A neural signature of adaptive mentalization | Nature Neuroscience

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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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...

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Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

👇Check out our new pre-print 👇

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

War Trauma Impairs Prenatal Brain Development: Evidence from Genetically-Informed Brain Imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Arkady 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...

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Saurabh 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.

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Probability weighting arises from boundary repulsions of cognitive noise

In 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...

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Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

For more, check out our preprint at osf.io/preprints/ps... And special shout out to my co-authors who made this possible📣📷<🙏👏 @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social and Christian C. Ruff #neuroeconomics (5/5)

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Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Finally, using machine learning, we've decoded adaptive mentalization with remarkable accuracy (r ~ .8), and thus are able to predict out-of-sample one's belief update with high precision. 🔎🧠 (4/5)

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Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We term this behavior adaptive #mentalization , which is predominantly encoded within the social brain network. This underscores the pivotal role of areas such as the TPJ in updating beliefs about others' strategies. #neuroeconomics (3/5)

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Gökhan Aydogan @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In repeated ✊🖐️✌️-like games, players don't rigidly stick to a single level of thinking (e.g., 'I think that you think' etc.), but dynamically adjust to their opponent's level. Our new Bayesian model CHASE captures and characterizes this adaptive behavior! #gametheory (2/5)

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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)

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