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Kimberly Chiew

@kimberlychiew.bsky.social
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associate professor of psychology at university of denver | motivation, affect, cognitive control, memory | she/her 🇨🇦 🧠🏔🐱✌️ | lab: www.dumaclab.org

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 29/09/2026
Massive congratulations to my colleague @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship! today.duke.edu/2026/09/duke...
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Duke Scientist Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ | Duke Today
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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw
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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)
YouTube video by AMANDA MONTOYA
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Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📢 Save the date! The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) is excited to announce the first-ever Motivated Cognition satellite meeting at Psychonomics 2026 in San Diego! 🗓️ Thursday, November 19th, 11am–5pm 📍 San Diego ssmmotivatedcognition.my.canva.site #Psychonomics2026 #MotivatedCognition
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
David Frum nails it here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Against Canada, Trump is fighting a trade war that very few Americans support, under leadership that most Americans reject, to achieve results that virtually all Americans would dismiss as pointless if not crazy.

Against Trump, Canadians are fighting a trade war that the great majority support, under leadership that commands broad assent, to defend their independence and self-respect. That’s a war that even the weaker side can win, especially if it needs to hold on only a few months longer to survive.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looking forward to this ✨
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 26/08/2026
The NSF GRFP solicitation is out. Aspiring Psychology PhD students, the deadline is October 20. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And congratulations to @alyssaasmar.bsky.social and @evrimb.bsky.social on receiving @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Graduate Student Travel Awards! @dupsychdept.bsky.social 🚀
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congratulations to @jvonmonteza.bsky.social for receiving a @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social J. Frank Yates Travel Award! @dupsychdept.bsky.social 💥
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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:
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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour
Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Pretty confused ab the coming @cos.io changes to OSF. looks like they’re phasing out “projects” (ie where u share/store code, stimuli, etc) which has been a keystone for our replicable pipelines: the info recreates our manuscript, figs, analyses, etc & lets u do ur own. Open science at its best! 1/4
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM
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Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For anyone asking how to help: Donate to True North Aid to assist Remote Indigenous Wildfire Evacuees - truenorthaid.ca/donate/ & Namaygoosisagagun First Nation Response: Donations an7gc.ca/donate/
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Donate - True North Aid | Canadian Charity Supporting Indigenous Communities
Donate to True North Aid's general fund and support Indigenous-led and community initiatves in remote communities.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thinking of everyone affected by the Ontario wildfires, especially in my home region, Northwestern Ontario. 💔
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026
That's about 2/3 the annual National Science Foundation budget.
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Interested in memory updating, exploration, structure learning, & reward? @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social & I are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University, with the opportunity to work at Rice too. Contact Hannah or me for details! #PsychJobs
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 29/06/2026
SIPS community members worked through the years to develop many resources that help to improve psychological sciences. We gathered them all, so you can find everything you need in one place. buff.ly/QIX07s3
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SIPS Products
If you have a project that started or developed at SIPS, or have updates on listed products, we would love to hear about it! Please email sips@improvingpsych.org to have it added to this list or up…
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture
Promotional graphic for Black In Neuro Week 2026. The design features a retro-inspired sunburst background in shades of orange, gold, cream, blue, and green. At the center is an arch-shaped panel with the text “A Reimagined Future” curved across the top, followed by “Black In Neuro Week 2026.” The Black In Neuro logo, featuring a profile illustration with a brain motif, appears in the center. At the bottom, the dates July 27–August 2 and the hashtag #BINW26 are displayed. Decorative star accents frame the design.
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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.
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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
✨ VERY excited to share our new paper led by Holly Bowen (SMU) & former ugrad Kyle Thurmann "Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis" finally in press @ Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 💵🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread 1/n
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Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis
Extensive evidence suggests that cognitive performance is typically enhanced under increased motivation, often in the form of reward anticipation. Whi…
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Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n
Plot showing that the read-out of visual working memory information from cerebellum is degraded following stimulation to cerebellum, IPS, or FEF
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Akram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!
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Study Coordinator
Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...
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Eva Van den Bussche @evdbussc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We’re hiring! Interested in conducting research on cognitive control, multitasking and aging with @gethinhughes.bsky.social, @sarahdepue.bsky.social and me? We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our lab @cogtex.bsky.social at KU Leuven. RTs much appreciated! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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PhD researcher for the project: Cognitive Control and Multitasking in the Digital Age
We are looking for a motivated PhD researcher to study the behavioral and neural dynamics between cognitive control and multitasking in young and aging populations.
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University of Denver @uofdenver.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Erika Manczak, associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, is leading innovative research into the effects of extreme temperatures on mental health—especially in children. Read more: bit.ly/4uEtwOk 🔬
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Extreme Temperatures Fueling Teen Depression | University of Denver
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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August. The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠 yeelabneuro.com
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CAMP Lab | about
The CAMP Lab at the University of Iowa uses computational, neuroimaging, pharmacological, and neuromodulation approaches to understand motivation, affect, and decision-making — and how these processes...
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Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
On Wednesday March 25!
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We are excited to head to @cogneuronews.bsky.social #CNS2026 in Vancouver soon :) 🇨🇦🌊🏔️ My lab will be presenting two posters on Sunday & Monday. Graduate student Evrim Baykal will be presenting on "Adaptive recovery under motivation" 👁️ at Poster B32 on Sunday morning:
Baykal & Chiew - Poster B32 - Sunday March 8 8-10am

Adjusting cognitive performance after an error might be a key facet of adaptive cognitive control. While post-error response slowing has been reliably characterized during cognitive task performance, post-error changes in accuracy have been more variable, with both increases and decreases observed. Motivational context might be a key element in whether post-error, cognitive effort and task accuracy increase, or whether both are reduced. To address this question, we propose a study where healthy young adults will complete a modified Flanker task with adaptive noise calibration (to ensure comparable error rates across individuals) under incentive and non-incentive conditions. Concurrent with task performance, we will collect eye-tracking data to examine pupil dilation (indexing cognitive effort) and gaze allocation (indexing attention) on a trial-level basis. Predictive modeling will allow us to test the extent to which, at the trial-by-trial level, pre-error behavior and physiological measures predict post-error performance recovery across motivational contexts. We will test the hypothesis that, on a trial-by-trial basis, stronger multimodal “ramp-up” signatures (increased post-error slowing, enhanced pupil dilation, and increased on-target gaze) will predict higher rates of adaptive recovery (post-error correct response) versus disengagement (post-error incorrect response). We further anticipate that incentives will amplify multimodal ramp-up, thereby increasing post-error adaptive recovery. We will also examine the extent to which individual differences in reward sensitivity, motivation, and emotion moderate these relationships. This approach will advance understanding of post-error adjustment and help clarify the contexts under which more or less adaptive adjustment of performance occurs, with important implications in applied domains.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Final version now in press at Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience! Congratulations to Rachel for her hard work on this ☺️🧠⚡ trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...
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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Changes in our feelings, or "affective surprise," may act as a learning signal that influences what we remember. Large magnitude deviations in experienced valence during encoding relate to better long-term associative memory.
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Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This Wednesday February 25! Dr. Michael Treadway (Emory University) is presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Effort-Based Decision-Making and Its Discontents: Precision medicine approaches for understanding the pathophysiology and treatment of motivational deficits in mental illness" 1/
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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred. Apply here: jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po... Lab website: wessellab.org
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Postdoctoral Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences @dukebrain.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
One day online conference on the ways behavioral and neural sciences can inform peace efforts. Organized by Duke's amazing @felipedebrigard.bsky.social Free! Tomorrow! (Fri Feb 6). To register see link below. behavioralscientist.org/program-neur...
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PROGRAM—Neuropaz 2026: Hard Truths & Paths Forward - Behavioral Scientist
On Friday, February 6, join us for an online event exploring the latest work and thinking at the intersection of behavioral science and peace and conflict.
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University of Denver @uofdenver.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The University is excited to launch a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering later this fall! 🔬 bit.ly/46qiVfi This new major is part of the DU Forward initiative and is designed to prepare students for #research, pre-health pathways, and careers in a range of fields.
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DU to launch new bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering this fall | University of Denver
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026. We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts. Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)! #SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics
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Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Why do some things stick in memory while others fade? Next Tue, Dec 9, Alan Castel (UCLA) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social online talk series on “Memory Selectivity in Younger and Older Adults: A Value-Directed Remembering Approach.” 1/ Join us! (link below)
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Some of our fantastic @dupsychdept.bsky.social graduate students at #psynom25 😊
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Hi #psynom25! Check out my grad student Rachel Brough's poster (III-150) at 6pm tonight: "Motivated Cognitive Control in Children Varying in ADHD Symptomology." This is a culmination of our big BBRF-funded study & w/ the large N, shows diff dimensions of ADHD scale w/ diff modes of control! ✨
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Excited to welcome #psynom25 to Denver later this week! A couple travel tips ⛰️🌇 1) It's high altitude and dry here, DRINK WATER, take it easy your first day in! 2) From the airport, save $/emissions by taking the light rail 🚈 to Union Station, then rideshare/25min walk to the Sheraton hotel 1/
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Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Coming up on November 11! Dr. Corinna Loeckenhoff @loeckenhoff.bsky.social (Cornell University) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Aging Differences in Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework" 1/
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Dana Miller-Cotto @damcotto.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️ doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
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Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!
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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Saw this art posted on FB & wanted to share it. Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin) #LetsGoBlueJays !
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Nina Rouhani @ninarouhani.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
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Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
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Motivated Cognition Meetings @motcogmeet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Coming up on October 28! Dr. Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social (UPenn/Rice) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Motivational States Bias Choices, Information Consumption, and Memory" 1/
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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation
Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We‘re hiring! 🏫⛰️☀️
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Excited for the fall lineup of Motivated Cognition Meeting talks!
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