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Hannah Payne

@hannahpayne.bsky.social
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💜 Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU 🗽 🧠 Studying the hippocampus, vision, and episodic memory in modern dinosaurs 🦖→🐦‍⬛ ⛰️ Backpack, run, and cycle as much as they'll let me🏃‍♀️🚴⛺

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Sandra Romero Pinto @sromeropinto.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
My first paper with @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! rdcu.be/eACGf TL;DR: asymmetric learning rates can be induced by shifts in tonic dopamine giving rise to pessimistic/optimistic biases in agents or animals undergoing reinforcement learning .
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Tonic dopamine and biases in value learning linked through a biologically inspired reinforcement learning model
Nature Communications - Accurate future predictions are essential for guiding behavior, and disruptions in this process are associated with psychiatric disorders. Here the authors show that changes...
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Hannah Payne @hannahpayne.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thank you for the nice article, @thetransmitter.bsky.social 🐦☺️
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Hannah Payne @hannahpayne.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum
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