Sepehr Razavi
@srazavi.bsky.social
Doctoral student, Social Computation and Representation Lab - https://www.socrlab.net/people
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🚨 My new paper is out in CABN! 🚨@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Does time pressure reveal habits? Divergent results from outcome devaluation and response remapping paradigms - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Habits are central to daily life but remain difficult to study in the lab. Outcome Devaluation is often considered a “gold standard” paradigm for habit measurement; yet human studies have produced mix...
link.springer.com
August 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
🚨 My new paper is out in CABN! 🚨@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
The Social Computation and Representation Lab talk series is back tomorrow! And no better way to start the new academic year than by following @setayeshradkani.bsky.social 's talk as she weaves together two complementary strands of her investigations into social cognition.
September 9, 2026 at 6:21 AM
The Social Computation and Representation Lab talk series is back tomorrow! And no better way to start the new academic year than by following @setayeshradkani.bsky.social 's talk as she weaves together two complementary strands of her investigations into social cognition.
Everything about this is heartbreaking beyond measure—I wish I/we had done more to prevent his death
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
www.middleeasteye.net
August 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Everything about this is heartbreaking beyond measure—I wish I/we had done more to prevent his death
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If you’re at #CCN2026 come stop by Sep’s poster at 2pm today! 🌵🤖👥
If you’re at CCN swing by at 2pm to hear about a social agency project I’ve been working on under the supervision of @joebarnby.com & @hayleydorfman.bsky.social (and Reuth Mirsky)
August 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
If you’re at #CCN2026 come stop by Sep’s poster at 2pm today! 🌵🤖👥
If you’re at CCN swing by at 2pm to hear about a social agency project I’ve been working on under the supervision of @joebarnby.com & @hayleydorfman.bsky.social (and Reuth Mirsky)
August 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
If you’re at CCN swing by at 2pm to hear about a social agency project I’ve been working on under the supervision of @joebarnby.com & @hayleydorfman.bsky.social (and Reuth Mirsky)
lucky and excited to be at this great pre-CCN workshop :) come to my poster on social agency on Tuesday
August 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
lucky and excited to be at this great pre-CCN workshop :) come to my poster on social agency on Tuesday
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New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56
www.cambridge.org
July 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Incredible
Being left on read: a free-energy formulation
doi.org/10.1038/s41593-526-84062-5
doi.org/10.1038/s41593-526-84062-5
July 28, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Incredible
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An active inference account of sneezing directly into someone's face
doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.146347
doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.146347
July 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM
An active inference account of sneezing directly into someone's face
doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.146347
doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.146347
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If you’re at #CPC2026 come and visit Seps poster !
Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models
Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models
July 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM
If you’re at #CPC2026 come and visit Seps poster !
Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models
Sep is leading work testing how social environment complexity interacts during learning to form maladaptive beliefs using connectionist models
Mood a bit dampened by a somewhat humiliating ‘random’ check in the process of entering the US but still very excited to present some of the work we’ve been doing at the Social Computation and Representation lab, starting at Computational Psychiatry in New Haven tomorrow!
July 14, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Mood a bit dampened by a somewhat humiliating ‘random’ check in the process of entering the US but still very excited to present some of the work we’ve been doing at the Social Computation and Representation lab, starting at Computational Psychiatry in New Haven tomorrow!
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Look how far we've come in just a few years! We're fast as well! It turns out, recruiting reviewers is much easier when they're not being used as free labor for massively profitable publishers
Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi
Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi
June 20, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Look how far we've come in just a few years! We're fast as well! It turns out, recruiting reviewers is much easier when they're not being used as free labor for massively profitable publishers
Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi
Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi
Reminder, this is happening tomorrow!
Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).
June 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Reminder, this is happening tomorrow!
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1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉)
📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
🧵 : 👇
📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
🧵 : 👇
June 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉)
📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
🧵 : 👇
📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
🧵 : 👇
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🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social!
If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱
In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱
In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ambiguity and confirmatory reward learning
We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social!
If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱
In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱
In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Sepehr Razavi
Looking forward to it!
Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).
June 4, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Looking forward to it!
Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).
June 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Coming up next week at the SoCR lab talk series is @alimahmoodi.bsky.social, who will be discussing his recent thought-provoking perspective, which advocates for a computational view of neural mechanisms of social cognition (contra an anatomical one).
Reposted by Sepehr Razavi
Join us tomorrow afternoon at #APS2026BCN! @psychscience.bsky.social @ninarouhani.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social @katieinsel.bsky.social
May 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Join us tomorrow afternoon at #APS2026BCN! @psychscience.bsky.social @ninarouhani.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social @katieinsel.bsky.social
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Sneak peek at the US cover for THE THINKING ANIMAL, coming Jan '27. Looking forward to sharing more - soon!
@stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social
@stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social
May 8, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Sneak peek at the US cover for THE THINKING ANIMAL, coming Jan '27. Looking forward to sharing more - soon!
@stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social
@stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social
Reminder that this is happening later today 🙂
This Thursday, we’re delighted to welcome @carocharp.bsky.social, PI of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab at the University of Maryland. She will be delivering what promises to be an insightful talk: 'Seeking advice and seeking feedback: cognitive mechanisms and relevance for psychopathology.'
April 2, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Reminder that this is happening later today 🙂
This Thursday, we’re delighted to welcome @carocharp.bsky.social, PI of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab at the University of Maryland. She will be delivering what promises to be an insightful talk: 'Seeking advice and seeking feedback: cognitive mechanisms and relevance for psychopathology.'
March 31, 2026 at 9:38 AM
This Thursday, we’re delighted to welcome @carocharp.bsky.social, PI of the Social Learning and Decisions Lab at the University of Maryland. She will be delivering what promises to be an insightful talk: 'Seeking advice and seeking feedback: cognitive mechanisms and relevance for psychopathology.'
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What connects difficulties in social cognition, self-awareness, and abstract reasoning in those with Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis (CCD)?
Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
March 16, 2026 at 8:50 AM
What connects difficulties in social cognition, self-awareness, and abstract reasoning in those with Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis (CCD)?
Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I think Fodor & Pylyshyn's 1988 paper is possibly the most mischaracterized paper in the history of cognitive science. It's often cited as arguing that neural networks cannot achieve systematicity, compositionality, and productivity. But that's not what they actually argue...
March 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I think Fodor & Pylyshyn's 1988 paper is possibly the most mischaracterized paper in the history of cognitive science. It's often cited as arguing that neural networks cannot achieve systematicity, compositionality, and productivity. But that's not what they actually argue...
A reminder that this is happening tomorrow!
Very happy to announce next week's SoCR lab guest, Andreas Hula, who will be talking about the uses and misuses of I-POMDPs in model-building human social decision-making 🧵
March 11, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A reminder that this is happening tomorrow!
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🚨New pre-print🚨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?
February 24, 2026 at 1:39 PM
🚨New pre-print🚨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?