Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitive computational …
Prosocial behaviors are hypothesized to require socio-cognitive and empathic abilities— engaging brain regions attributed to the mentalizing and empathy brain networks. Here, we …
Recent work in social cognition has moved beyond a focus on how people process social rewards to examine how healthy people represent other agents and how this is altered in …
Dopamine and serotonin are hypothesized to guide social behaviours. In humans, however, we have not yet been able to study neuromodulator dynamics as social interaction unfolds …
Controllability, or the influence one has over their surroundings, is crucial for decision- making and mental health. Traditionally, controllability is operationalized in sensorimotor …
In social environments, survival can depend upon inferring and adapting to other agents' goal-directed behavior. However, it remains unclear how humans achieve this, despite the …
Humans navigate complex situations that require the accurate estimation of the controllability of the environment. Aberrant controllability computation might lead to …
I Saez, X Gu - Biological psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
Computational psychiatry, a relatively new yet prolific field that aims to understand psychiatric disorders with formal theories about the brain, has seen tremendous growth in …
Misophonia is a disorder in which certain sounds produced by other people lead to intense negative reactions. It remains unknown how misophonia relates to other psychiatric …