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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New preprint! How do threat beliefs drive avoidance & what happens when avoidance prevents us from verifying them? New work showing a bidirectional link between beliefs and avoidance! Lucky to work w @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Also, have a look here to see how a game about dogs helped us to answer these questions luiantav.github.io/dog-island/

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes. A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Check out the latest from Sam HallMcMaster on the role of entorhinal cortex in factorizing representations and generalization

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

📘🧠💥@fabianrenz.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social & I thought about methods to measure brain plasticity and wrote an overview of exciting new methods and developments! Read our chapter, out now in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Looking for a PhD or Postdoc position? I can only recommend working with @ondrejzika.bsky.social

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Are you coming to @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025? Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫 w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We are now accepting short talk abstracts for our workshop on gamification in cog & comp neuroscience at #RLDM2025 🎮👾🕹️ shorturl.at/0p0Jd

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Finally, we show that trait anxiety is associated with stronger generalisation and that this overgeneralization is associated with value rather than perceptual mechanisms. 7/n

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Using computational modelling we show that we can dissociate perceptual and value-based generalisation. Response distributions (here for generalisation stimuli closest to the CS+) reflect predicted distributions. 6/n

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We predict that trial-wise rating distributions differ for perceptual & value-based generalisation (binary vs. gradual). To generalise value, participants can draw on different functions (Gaussian-like, monotonic). 5/n

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We show that outcome expectancy ratings learned for a CS+ generalise to perceptually similar stimuli - although showing different patterns. 4/n

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

👻Using a pretty task involving dangerous (&scary) Spaceflowers we collect data on participants’ perceptual discriminability, aversive learning and generalisation behaviour. 3/n

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Generalisation of learned outcome expectancies to similar stimuli can result from confusing two stimuli (perceptual mechanism) or from the transfer of learned value (value mechanism). We use a modelling approach to dissociate these two mechanisms. 2/n

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It’s a Preprint! 👋 We show how we can dissociate perceptual from value-based mechanisms of generalisation + that stronger gen. in anxiety is associated with value rather than perception. w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

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