Pete Hitchcock
@pf-hitchcock.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Emory Psychology || Computational clinical science of depression and anxiety || translational-lab.com
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Pete Hitchcock
@pf-hitchcock.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Information for prospective graduate students
The Translational Lab will be reviewing applications this cycle! Prospective students can apply through Clinical Science or Cognitive and Computational Sciences in the Emory Psychology Department to ...
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I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬
Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄
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Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄
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Just a quick reminder that applications for our new cross-lab PhD training model in cognitive science at Dartmouth are due Dec. 1. We're quite excited about this new approach, so please reach out if you have any questions!!
We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions – Information about graduate admissions from the cognitive science faculty
sites.dartmouth.edu
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just a quick reminder that applications for our new cross-lab PhD training model in cognitive science at Dartmouth are due Dec. 1. We're quite excited about this new approach, so please reach out if you have any questions!!
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At #psynom25? Come to our posters today 6pm!
V-074 Reward restructures existing cognitive maps (Seoyoung Lee)
V-075 Neural representation of multi-attribute food choices in individuals with anorexia nervosa (Hannah Kim)
V-124 Reward-induced memory precision bias in semantic categories (Xinyue Li)
V-074 Reward restructures existing cognitive maps (Seoyoung Lee)
V-075 Neural representation of multi-attribute food choices in individuals with anorexia nervosa (Hannah Kim)
V-124 Reward-induced memory precision bias in semantic categories (Xinyue Li)
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
At #psynom25? Come to our posters today 6pm!
V-074 Reward restructures existing cognitive maps (Seoyoung Lee)
V-075 Neural representation of multi-attribute food choices in individuals with anorexia nervosa (Hannah Kim)
V-124 Reward-induced memory precision bias in semantic categories (Xinyue Li)
V-074 Reward restructures existing cognitive maps (Seoyoung Lee)
V-075 Neural representation of multi-attribute food choices in individuals with anorexia nervosa (Hannah Kim)
V-124 Reward-induced memory precision bias in semantic categories (Xinyue Li)
🎉🥂🔥🚀
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🎉🥂🔥🚀
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Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
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Really excited about this 5-year project starting, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, where we will combine ✨computational modelling✨ with causal intervention techniques such as ✨tFUS✨ to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of repetitive negative thoughts 🚀 led by @mikebrowning.bsky.social
Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇
tinyurl.com/364es88k
tinyurl.com/364es88k
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Really excited about this 5-year project starting, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, where we will combine ✨computational modelling✨ with causal intervention techniques such as ✨tFUS✨ to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of repetitive negative thoughts 🚀 led by @mikebrowning.bsky.social
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We show that individuals with anxiety symptoms respond slower to changes of context (event boundaries) and they segment contexts (events) more precisely. We also asked people about preferences and experience with context changes in everyday life, which correlated with both anxiety and segmentation!
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We show that individuals with anxiety symptoms respond slower to changes of context (event boundaries) and they segment contexts (events) more precisely. We also asked people about preferences and experience with context changes in everyday life, which correlated with both anxiety and segmentation!
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A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇
tinyurl.com/364es88k
tinyurl.com/364es88k
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
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New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS:
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
(or why does it hurt to think)
never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
(or why does it hurt to think)
never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action,
and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation
– and, consequently, pref...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS:
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
(or why does it hurt to think)
never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience
Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?
(or why does it hurt to think)
never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience
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gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒
w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
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@andrewpapale.bsky.social 's new explore/exploit paper in JNeurosci with @vanessabrown.bsky.social @drangelaianni.bsky.social Michael Hallquist & Bea Luna: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
PFC-DMN and hippocampus encode value maxima in exploitation, but their synchronization peaks in exploration.
PFC-DMN and hippocampus encode value maxima in exploitation, but their synchronization peaks in exploration.
Prefrontal default-mode network interactions with posterior hippocampus during exploration
Hippocampal maps and ventral prefrontal cortex (vPFC) value and goal representations support foraging in continuous spaces. How might hippocampal-vPFC interactions control the balance between behavior...
www.jneurosci.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
@andrewpapale.bsky.social 's new explore/exploit paper in JNeurosci with @vanessabrown.bsky.social @drangelaianni.bsky.social Michael Hallquist & Bea Luna: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
PFC-DMN and hippocampus encode value maxima in exploitation, but their synchronization peaks in exploration.
PFC-DMN and hippocampus encode value maxima in exploitation, but their synchronization peaks in exploration.
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Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵)
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵)
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
Featuring:
@khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social
@dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social
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How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How do we succeed at self-control? In a new paper in @pnas.org with James Wilson, David Kalkstein, and Melissa Ferguson, we use mouse-tracking of ~47,000 decisions of long-term over short-term to show that 'willpower' is too narrow a conception of self-control www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives on metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology - Nature Reviews Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology have made substantial advances in knowledge about metacognitive processes, but these fields have progressed in parallel. In this Review, Seow et al. inte...
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3)
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
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Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Reflecting the efforts of so many - most importantly our study participants who gave their time to help others - I'm thrilled to share the results of our RCT evaluating the effectiveness of the #SafetyPlanningIntervention for #SuicidePrevention in the year after jail release.
RCT: Among people released from pretrial jail detention, those who received the Safety Planning Intervention with telephone follow-up experienced 42% fewer suicide events over 12 months compared with enhanced standard care. ja.ma/4oWA6vW
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reflecting the efforts of so many - most importantly our study participants who gave their time to help others - I'm thrilled to share the results of our RCT evaluating the effectiveness of the #SafetyPlanningIntervention for #SuicidePrevention in the year after jail release.
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1/4 I’m super excited to share our latest PNAS paper: a 7T-fMRI study shows that functional connectivity between habenula and VTA in humans is associated with individual differences in negative learning bias, which further associates with higher anxiety and depression scores. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
1/4 I’m super excited to share our latest PNAS paper: a 7T-fMRI study shows that functional connectivity between habenula and VTA in humans is associated with individual differences in negative learning bias, which further associates with higher anxiety and depression scores. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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The Gearshift Fellowship R&D Core is expanding its technical capacity. 🔥We’re hiring a frontend engineer (HTML/JS/jsPsych) to help advance our research platform on adaptive intelligence 🧠👇
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Gearshift Fellowship R&D Core is expanding its technical capacity. 🔥We’re hiring a frontend engineer (HTML/JS/jsPsych) to help advance our research platform on adaptive intelligence 🧠👇
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🚀 We're hiring !
🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e
🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e
🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
Postdoctoral Researcher (2288) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🚀 We're hiring !
🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e
🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e
🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
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The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...
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This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6
Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social
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Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:
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delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...