Manav Ponnekanti joins the lab

liobaberndt 20/08/2024 CurrentLabMembers

We are excited for Manav to do his BSc project with us – welcome to the lab! He is going to work with us on using large language models to elucidate the underlying semantic profiles of depression and anxiety in self-report questionnaires.

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Recent publications

Real-world fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based choices12/08/2024

Subjective experiences, like feeling motivated, fluctuate over time. However, we usually ignore these fluctuations when studying how feelings predict behaviour. Here, we examine whether naturalistic ups and downs in states…

Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in ventral hippocampus28/05/2024

The ability to form and utilize subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision making is a crucial determinant of everyday life. The hippocampus is widely hypothesized to bind together otherwise…

Exploring the Unexplored: Worry as a Catalyst for Exploratory Behavior in Anxiety and Depression28/05/2024

The relationship between anxious and depressive traits and exploration behavior has been examined in several studies with mixed results. While some studies suggest that anxious and depressive traits are related…

Emotion-induced frontal α asymmetry predicts Relapse after Discontinuation of Antidepressant medication28/05/2024

Background: One in three patients relapse after antidepressant discontinuation. Thus, the prevention of relapse after achieving remission is an important component in the long-term management of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). However,…

Heuristics in risky decision-making relate to preferential representation of information28/05/2024

When making choices people differ from each other, as well as from normativity, in how they weigh different types of information. One explanation for this deviance relates to selective prioritization…