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Erin Rich
@erinLrich
Neuroscientist, neurophysiology of reward, learning, decision-making etc. She/her
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It's finally out, on Joe's last day in the lab before heading off to postdoc!
We asked whether a putative "social" brain area does anything unique with social cues when they're not used for any social reasoning. Turns out it does!
nature.com/articles/s4146…
We asked whether a putative "social" brain area does anything unique with social cues when they're not used for any social reasoning. Turns out it does!
nature.com/articles/s4146…
www.nature.com Neural populations in macaque anterior cingulate cortex encode social image identities Nature Communications - The anterior cingulate cortex gyrus plays an important role in social cognition. Here authors show that, in a goal-directed task without social reasoning, these neurons... For anyone like me who enjoys geeking out over behavioral tasks, our new paper is out! Also important implications for mechanisms of value-based decisions.
With @q__perkins and @zach_gillis
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/d…
With @q__perkins and @zach_gillis
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/d…
direct.mit.edu Multiattribute Decision-making in Macaques Relies on Direct Attribute Comparisons Abstract. In value-based decisions, there are frequently multiple attributes, such as cost, quality, or quantity, that contribute to the overall goodness of an option. Because one option may not be... 
Broadening the Scope of JNeurosci's Content jneurosci.org/content/44/2/e…
www.jneurosci.org Broadening the Scope of JNeurosci's Content JNeurosci has traditionally organized its content according to sections that best reflect an article's principal theme. At the time of inception in 1981, there were five sections labeled “molecular,”...