Alan Voodla

I am super grateful to @T_Vrantsidis & Kimia Sabbagh for this collaboration!

A fresh preprint! osf.io/rcmq7 Reward Prediction Errors, Not Expectations or Outcomes, Drive Emotional Valence. We find that when accounting for multiple levels of RPEs (e.g., trial- and block-level) and their temporal dynamics, only RPEs predict affect.

Tartu Affect and Regulation Unit is diving into the stimulating waters of #ISRE24 with a group record of 6 presentations! If you’re in the mood for some estonished affective science, check us out (1/7)

@amitaishenhav Very cool work! In this preprint osf.io/preprints/osf/… we tackle similar issues in the context of decision confidence :)

I'm very excited to share a preprint from a passion project I've been working on this past year! This came out of trying to work through two puzzles that have been bothering me for a while, and which are at the core of almost everything most of us study. osf.io/preprints/psya…

New in Cognitive Psychology: On the Interplay Between Stimulus-driven and Goal-directed Processes in the Decision to Fight or Flee, from Massimo Köster @KosterMaf Maja Fischer @MajaFischer5 Evelien Bossuyt Eike Buabang @eike_kofi & Agnes Moors @agnes_moors doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Are you at #escan2024? Come and let's talk about affect & metacogniton at Poster session 2! I will present our latest work with @KobeDesender and @anderouusberg, where we find that affect and confidence both reflect p(correct). See preprint here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

My first PhD project now out in @PsychScience - big shoutout to co-author @PierreLeDenmat1 & supervisors @KobeDesender & #tomverguts for making this happen! Go and have a read: doi.org/10.1177/095679…

If you're attending SAS, come and join the discussion on mechanisms of affective experience on Saturday morning! I will be presenting our recent work with @KobeDesender and @anderouusberg on whether affect reflects prediction errors :) #AffectScience2024 @affectScience

My new paper is finally out with my wonderful mentors @KobeDesender & @anderouusberg. We show that in perceptual decisions, affect does not reflect progress prediction error but the addition of expected and actual progress: rdcu.be/dvhEb

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Twitter hivemind - do you know any resources (e.g papers/collections of tips & tricks, etc) about how to write (better) theoretical papers in psychology? Every hint appreciated :)

@hakwanlau "The experiments seem very skillfully executed by a large group of trainees across different labs. However, by design the studies only tested some idiosyncratic predictions made by certain theorists, which are not really logically related to the core ideas of *insert psy theory*"

in light of the spread of some misinformation on public media (including news articles in Nature & Science), a group of 124 researchers weigh in & consider it necessary to label the integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness as pseudoscience psyarxiv.com/zsr78/

@kaitlynmwerner @PsiChiHonor Amazing! Congratulations :)

What a lucky day! I was accepted into the NET Neuro Fellowship program at U. Oregon (which complements my NIH postdoc this fall), I was awarded the @PsiChiHonor unrestricted travel grant, and one of my science role models agreed to co-organize a symposium with me! 🎉🎉

A freshly carved-out framework to understand mechanisms of emotion regulation on meta & object level processing!

I am very grateful for my superb advisors and co-authors - Kobe Desender @KobeDesender & Andero Uusberg @anderouusberg who kept the actual progress in line with expectations and with whom we managed to find a way to cut across different research traditions :)

Moreover, we were able to show that, contrary to much theoretical work (e.g. Carver & Scheier, 1990, Psych Rev), affect does not track progress prediction error, but instead is computed as an additive combination of expected and actual progress in a decision. /6

What are the mechanisms that make decisions feel more or less positive or negative? Excited to share this new preprint psyarxiv.com/qgta9 where we propose a novel computational framework - affectDDM to model affect generation in perceptual decision-making. 1/