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Model-based analysis of stop-signal data reveals robust neural and clinical correlates of evidence accumulation but not inhibition nature.com/articles/s4138…

A collective action game explores the “private solution trap”: Wealthier participants opted to fund solutions that only protected the well off, analogous to rich countries investing in local climate adaptation rather than global mitigation. In PNAS: ow.ly/xEA250YBfnC

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v0XLiz

Empathy as a predictive signal: why we devalue AI empathy Science & Society by Anat Perry (@AnatPerry) Free access before May 12: tinyurl.com/mr476e23

What does environmental decision neuroscience mean? Environmental decision neuroscience studies how brain systems are involved in value based social thinking, and how self-control shapes choices that may affect the environment around us. Knoch and Wyss describe in a comment in Nature Reviews Neuroscience how brain science is beginning to explain why some environmental choices stick, while others fail. Key points: - Environmental decisions engage brain systems for valuation perspective taking and for self-control, rather than for simple habit or knowledge. - Sustainable choices frequently involve immediate personal costs w/ delayed uncertain benefits which makes them cognitively demanding. - Studying decisions w/ real consequences reveals mechanisms that self-reports and surveys frequently miss. My take: This paper reframes environmental choices as a brain challenge and not just a policy or technology problem. If we want lasting change, we must understand how decisions are actually made under conditions of uncertainty, cost and delay. Neuroscience offers tools to design smarter interventions that may better fit how folks think, feel and decide. Here are 5 points that resonated w/ me: 1- Knowledge alone rarely changes behavior when decisions involve sacrifice and delayed reward. 2- Brain systems for empathy and future thinking may be central to sustainable action. 3- Self-control matters when short term convenience conflicts w/ long term benefit. 4- Interventions will work best when matched to how different folks process value and social impact. 5- Understanding the brain may help health care providers, policymakers and communities design approaches that lead to the best choices for our environment. nature.com/articles/s4158… @ParkinsonDotOrg @movedisorder @FixelInstitute @SfNtweets

Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action — a Comment article by Daria Knoch & Annika M. Wyss nature.com/articles/s4158…

What if we could measure every #environmental exposure shaping our health? 🌍 Twenty years after its start, #Exposomics is ready to uncover the complex drivers of disease. Read the PNAS News Feature: ow.ly/R4WW50Y4r6A #PublicHealth #pollution #pesticides #wildfires

In this Comment, Yao et al. proposes an age-sensitive climate adaptation framework that emphasizes non-digital communication, financial assistance, and community-based strategies to support them. dlvr.it/TQdcQP

Altered theta distribution and coherence during set-shifting in older age biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_neursci

✨We are thrilled to see our Comment on “Environmental Decision Neuroscience” published in @NatRevNeurosci 🌱🧠 Check it out ➡️ 📄 rdcu.be/e0oLM #EnvironmentalNeuroscience

Neurostructural correlates of intolerance of uncertainty: Regional and network-level associations with general psychological distress sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This is deeply troubling. Researchers are more likely to choose statistical models whose results align with their ideological priors. Seventy-one research teams independently analyzed the same dataset on the effect of immigration on public support for social welfare programs. Teams composed of pro-immigration researchers were more likely to conclude that the effect was positive. Teams composed of anti-immigration researchers were more likely to find a negative effect. Let me repeat: they analyzed literally the same dataset. Full paper in the first comment.

Large-scale mega-analysis indicates that serial dependence deteriorates perceptual decision-making nature.com/articles/s4156…

Self-report questionnaires are vital in psychology, yet how the brain generates these responses is unknown. We found that items assessing the same trait produced similar activation patterns specifically in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). nature.com/articles/s4427…

🚨New paper out! We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤 ➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠 To the paper 👉🏼 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Real-life ear-EEG Recordings of Auditory Responses to Ambient Sounds biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_neursci

A comparison of data from 64,000 individuals in 64 countries with their self-reports of well-being suggests LLMs cannot provide valid predictions for subjective well-being, in part due to biases rooted in global digital and economic inequality. In PNAS: ow.ly/Wunh50XC4z0

Ventromedial striatal dopamine dynamically integrates motivated action and reward proximity biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_neursci

In this study, Piray shows a problem of low statistical power in many studies that use Bayesian model selection with computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Intrinsic electrophysiological activity maps a latent dimension of poor sleep quality and reduced cognitive performance: a ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci