Nitzan Shahar
shaharnitzan.bsky.social
Nitzan Shahar
@shaharnitzan.bsky.social
I am a clinical psychologist and leading a lab at Tel-Aviv University working on computational modeling for ADHD and OCD.
www.shahar-lab.com
I’m teaching an MA state course in psychology & neuroscience, Bayesian stats flavored. Tempted to add some history on the side. Who would you say are the must-include figures in stat history? #stats
September 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New preprint, showing that human value learning has an automatic aspect!
Congrats @idoba.bsky.social for a fantastic, in-depth and rigorous work 🏆
Excited to share our new preprint! 🚨
Does human learning have an automatic aspect? Is it possible that we learn things that are counterproductive and only lead to reduced gains?
September 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Reposted by Nitzan Shahar
Check out our shiny app for Bayesian power analysis of interoceptive psychophysics!
September 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reposted by Nitzan Shahar
🚨 Job Alert 🚨
Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab is hiring!
We are looking for postdocs in CBT, neuroimaging, developmental psychology, and a lab manager.
We offer: brand new MRI, great coffee, wonderful place w nature
Interested? Email me!
Details: devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/
#neuroscience
January 19, 2024 at 1:23 PM
In our papers we always plot the posterior and report median, 89%CI and probability of direction. A nice reviewer said "you should really use 95%CI". How would you reply? Would you make the change?

Here's the whole thing

discourse.mc-stan.org/t/help-in-re...

#stats @rmcelreath.bsky.social
Help in reply to reviewer regarding CI
Hi Everyone, A question on how to handle reviewers when reporting CI. We are doing RL and in our papers when reporting results I always try to put a figure with the whole posterior. We also tend to ...
discourse.mc-stan.org
November 24, 2023 at 6:43 AM
In our papers we always plot the whole posterior and report median, 89%CI and probability of direction. A reviewer said "you should really use 95%CI". How would you reply? Would you make the change?

Here's the whole thing
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/help-in-re...

#stats @rmcelreath.bsky.social
November 24, 2023 at 6:41 AM
Reposted by Nitzan Shahar
New preprint with an exciting and unexpected result!
The ADHD vocabulary size advantage: Monolingual and bilingual young adults with ADHD have larger vocabularies than controls. Co-authored PhD student extrodinaire Melanie Brouillard (seriously, it was all her idea).

osf.io/h2fcj/
The ADHD vocabulary size advantage: Monolingual and bilingual young adults with ADHD have larger voc...
Individuals with ADHD and bilinguals have each widely been considered vulnerable to vocabulary deficits compared to their peers. However, the interaction of ADHD and bilingualism in affecting vocabula...
osf.io
September 27, 2023 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by Nitzan Shahar
#workingmemory #cogpsych #devpsych #PsySciSky

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September 27, 2023 at 8:46 AM
All mighty #stats
Do you know of any convenient way to stimulate hierarchical regression data in R?
I want students to be able to define population parameters (including cor for group level), factors, sample size, the linear equation, and get some synthetic data.
September 26, 2023 at 4:10 AM
First post!
Our lab just posted a new preprint, where we found that positive attitudes towards adhd, are associated with adhd symptoms. We thought this will be a negative corr - more symptoms will get you to think adhd is actually not that great... but...
September 23, 2023 at 3:10 PM