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Ronald Sladky

@sweetneuron.bsky.social
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🧠, he/him Cognitive Neuroscientist in Vienna, Austria My 3C's: my children, cognition, and cooking.

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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
as well as the role of dopamine in social learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... & www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Blocking D2/D3 dopamine receptors in male participants increases volatility of beliefs when learning to trust others - Nature Communications
Inferring other people’s intentions from their actions is essential for successful social engagement. Here, the authors show that in social contexts, dopamine D2 receptors are important in regulating ...
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We extend and reproduce our previous work (we used the same task, comparable methods, and models) on the amygdala www.cell.com/trends/cogni... and how it is indispensably for trust learning www.cell.com/current-biol... & www.nature.com/articles/s42... ...
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The Human Basolateral Amygdala Is Indispensable for Social Experiential Learning
Learning who can be trusted and adaptively responding to that knowledge is crucial to our economic and social well-being. Rosenberger et al. show substantial impairments in trust learning in humans wi...
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This @scanunit.bsky.social study was conducted by Federica Riva and supervised by @clauslamm.bsky.social . My role was the neuroimaging data analyses and computational modeling and contributing my amygdala expertise. Thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at for their support!
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can loneliness affect how we learn whom to trust as we age? In our new fMRI study, we looked at how people learn to play the repeated trust game. We think there is a link between age, loneliness & dopamine function that impairs social learning - a vicious circle maybe? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬ In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
Hand holding a copy of "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" by Kathryn Nave. The cover is blue with orange text and features a geometric design at the center.
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨 4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠 Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W Pls 🔁
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Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈 We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩 Here is our 2024 in review 👇
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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
'Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration' -- out now in the latest issue of Neuron. @hohwy.bsky.social, Karl Friston & I propose a formal framework for designing & evaluating adversarial tests of competing theories.
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Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration
Corcoran et al. present a Bayesian treatment of adversarial collaboration that operationalizes competing theoretical hypotheses as generative models. This approach enables the evaluation of alternati...
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
New paper from the SCAN-Unit out in @eLife. Do violent video games decrease our empathy and numb us towards real violence? Let’s find out! elifesciences.org/articles/84951 Lengersdorff et al. (2023) (1/12)
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Neuroimaging and behavioral evidence that violent video games exert no negative effect on human empa...
After playing violent video games for 7 hr over the course of 2 weeks, human male participants show neither signs of decreased empathy for the pain of another person nor of decreased responsivity to v...
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
For those interested in the coolest present for @clauslamm.bsky.social anniversary - we wrote a “paper”named “How to be a good supervisor: a mixed-methods case study of Claus Lamm” 🤓 here the link ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Happy new year from us! 🥳😊 Following with our tradition we present to you our year in figures and wish you all the best for 2024!
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Check out our paper, talk to us, and let‘s see how our idea will be useful for future empirical research.  [8/8]
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
4. Actions: some sensations feel better than others. Approach and avoidance actions can make more preferred expected sensations become reality. It’s like magic. If it hurts in a bad way and you avoid it before it hurts, it does not hurt. [7/8]
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
3. Fear conditioning: results from predictive processing and anticipating the future. Using exteroception the amygdala helps to predict deviations from optimal regulation (e.g., pain) before they happen. I call this a pro gamer move if you want to survive. [6/8]
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
2. Danger detection: how do we distinguish a snake from a rope? The context matters: if you are afraid of encountering snakes (e.g., because you’re in the jungle) you are more likely to (mis)identify a snaky object as a snake. Not so much on a relaxing sailing cruise. [5/8]
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
1. Fear/anxeity: we see the amygdala as a mediator between interoception and exteroception. The central amygdala acts as a Bayesian regulator to inform affective states. It sends predictions to the basolateral amygdala, which allows efficient perception. [4/8]
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
We want to inspire amygdala research by suggesting a unified narrative grounded in biological fundamentals (self-regulation) and a computational framework (Bayes). By proposing an active inference perspective, we reframe previously fragmented amygdala research topics: [3/8]
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
More than 10 years I’ve been wondering how to link my amygdala research with predictive processing. With the invaluable help from my interdisciplinary colleagues and friends it worked out: a bit inspiration, hard work, and letting go of unnecessary clutter. [2/8]
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Ronald Sladky @sweetneuron.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood! “An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]
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Kim Doell @kimdoell.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on #Neuroskyence researchers to help combat #climatechange 🧠
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