The Cognition & Decision lab journal club meets roughly monthly to discuss recent papers on the broad themes of decision neuroscience and open science.

Meetings for Summer 2017 are on occasional Mondays from 2-3pm, as listed below, at 677 Beacon St. Anyone is welcome. Email jtmcg@bu.edu to join the mailing list for announcements.

Schedule

 

Past meetings

July 24, 2017, 2:00-3:00pm

Chong, T. T.-J., Apps, M., Giehl, K., Sillence, A., Grima, L. L., & Husain, M. (2017). Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying subjective valuation of effort costs. PLOS Biology, 15, e1002598. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002598

July 10, 2017, 2:00-3:00pm

Rutledge, R. B., Moutoussis, M., Smittenaar, P., Zeidman, P., Taylor, T., Hrynkiewicz, L., … Dolan, R. J. (2017). Association of neural and emotional impacts of reward prediction errors with major depression. JAMA Psychiatry, 10–12. http://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.1713

and the associated commentary:

Pulcu, E., & Browning, M. (2017). Using computational psychiatry to rule out the hidden causes of depression. JAMA Psychiatry, 6–7. http://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.1500

 

May 1, 2017

Howe, M. W., & Dombeck, D. A. (2016). Rapid signalling in distinct dopaminergic axons during locomotion and reward. Nature, 535, 505–510. http://doi.org/10.1038/nature18942

and

Wagner, M. J., Kim, T. H., Savall, J., Schnitzer, M. J., & Luo, L. (2017). Cerebellar granule cells encode the expectation of reward. Nature, 544, 96–100. http://doi.org/10.1038/nature21726

 

Mar. 27, 2017

Pujara, M. S., Philippi, C. L., Motzkin, J. C., Baskaya, M. K., & Koenigs, M. (2016). Ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage is associated with decreased ventral striatum volume and response to reward. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 5047–5054. http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4236-15.2016

 

Mar. 6, 2017

Wittmann, M. K., Kolling, N., Akaishi, R., Chau, B. K. H., Brown, J. W., Nelissen, N., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2016). Predictive decision making driven by multiple time-linked reward representations in the anterior cingulate cortex. Nature Communications, 7, 12327. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12327

 

Jan. 30, 2017

Folke, T., Jacobsen, C., Fleming, S. M., & De Martino, B. (2016). Explicit representation of confidence informs future value-based decisions. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 2. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-016-0002

 

Dec. 6, 2016

Marshall, L., Mathys, C., Ruge, D., de Berker, A. O., Dayan, P., Stephan, K. E., & Bestmann, S. (2016). Pharmacological fingerprints of contextual uncertainty. PLOS Biology, 14, e1002575. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002575

 

Nov. 1, 2016

Davidow, J. Y., Foerde, K., Galván, A., & Shohamy, D. (2016). An upside to reward sensitivity: The hippocampus supports enhanced reinforcement learning in adolescence. Neuron, 92, 93–99. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.08.031

 

Aug. 19, 2016

Weinberger, D. R., & Radulescu, E. (2016). Finding the elusive psychiatric “lesion” with 21st-century neuroanatomy: A note of caution. American Journal of Psychiatry, 173, 27–33. http://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15060753

 

Aug. 5, 2016

Abrahamyan, A., Silva, L. L., Dakin, S. C., Carandini, M., & Gardner, J. L. (2016). Adaptable history biases in human perceptual decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, E3548–E3557. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518786113

 

July 22, 2016

Van Bavel, J. J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Brady, W. J., & Reinero, D. A. (2016). Contextual sensitivity in scientific reproducibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1–6. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521897113

 

June 24, 2016

Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, aac4716–aac4716. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716

Critique: Gilbert, D. T., King, G., Pettigrew, S., & Wilson, T. D. (2016). Comment on: Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 351, 4–6. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad7243

Response: Anderson, C. J., Bahník, Š., Barnett-Cowan, M., Bosco, F. A., Chandler, J., Chartier, C. R., … Zuni, K. (2016). Response to Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science.” Science, 351, 1037. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad9163

Response: http://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/07/lets-not-mischaracterize-replication-studies-authors/

 

June 10, 2016

Ferenczi, E. A., Zalocusky, K. A., Liston, C., Grosenick, L., Warden, M. R., Amatya, D., … Deisseroth, K. (2016). Prefrontal cortical regulation of brainwide circuit dynamics and reward-related behavior. Science, 351, aac9698–aac9698. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac9698

 

June 3, 2016

Diederen, K. M. J., Spencer, T., Vestergaard, M. D., Fletcher, P. C., & Schultz, W. (2016). Adaptive prediction error coding in the human midbrain and striatum facilitates behavioral adaptation and learning efficiency. Neuron, 1–12. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.04.019