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Patricia Lockwood
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Patricia Lockwood
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Prof & Sir Henry Dale Fellow @TheCHBH @IMH_UOB. PI sdn-lab.org. Likes cats, social behaviour & brains. Blog: tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain
Birmingham, England
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Jul 28, 2020
    "Is there a 'social' brain? implementations and algorithms' new paper with @brain_apps & @stevewcchang in @TrendsCognSci! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… thread belowπŸ‘‡
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Jan 10, 2022
    Absolutely thrilled and incredibly fortunate to be awarded an ERC Starting grant to fund our lab (sdn-lab.org) for the next 5 years! @ERC_Research
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    UniBirmingham News
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    Jan 10, 2022
    Congratulations Dr Patricia Lockwood (@thepsychologist) who has been awarded a prestigious grant from @ERC_Research to investigate why and when people make decisions to help others. birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/20…
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Mar 31, 2024
    Excited and honoured to be promoted to full Professor of Decision Neuroscience. Extremely grateful to all the many many people who helped me do this (students, colleagues, collaborators, mentors) & @EP_UCL @OxExpPsy @TheCHBH @UoB_SoP for their training and support along the way.
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Oct 15, 2019
    Excited to announce I am joining @TheCHBH and @IMH_UoB at University of Birmingham as a Senior Research Fellow from summer 2020! I am looking for PhD students and a postdoc to work on social decision neuroscience. DM if you want to apply πŸ™‚ @UoB_SoP @LES_UniBham
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Oct 18, 2021
    Thrilled and honoured to be selected for a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology! @LeverhulmeTrust very grateful to my amazing lab, collaborators & supervisors across many wonderful places I have had the privilege to work and study @BristolUniPsych @UCLPALS @OxExpPsy @UoB_SoP
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    The Leverhulme Trust
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    Oct 18, 2021
    The Trust is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prizes. Thirty exceptional researchers awarded in these areas: Classics; Earth Sciences; Physics; Politics and International Relations; Psychology; Visual and Performing Arts. leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2021-phil…
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Nov 23, 2020
    Thrilled (and surprised!) to be awarded a Jacobs Foundation @Foundation_JF Research Fellowship. Looking forward to meeting the other fellows and learning more about learning! Applications for the next round now open (see below), deadline 11th January.
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    Jacobs Foundation
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    Nov 23, 2020
    Congratulations to our new 13 #JacobsResearchFellows. We are now calling for #ResearchFellow applications for next year. Find out more here: jacobsfoundation.org/en/supporting-…
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Oct 15, 2020
    "Model-free decision-making is prioritised when learning to avoid harming others" New paper in @PNASNews with the amazing @MKFlugge @AbdurahmanAyat and @mollycrockett
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    Model-free decision making is prioritized when learning to avoid harming others | PNAS
    Moral behavior requires learning how our actions help or harm others. Theoretical accounts of learning propose a key division between β€œmodel-free” ...
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    May 19, 2020
    Happy to share the final version of our paper with @MKFlugge on using computational models of reinforcement learning in social neuroscience! academic.oup.com/scan/advance-a… available open access and has some useful tutorial links for applying RL models at the end πŸ™‚
    The influence of recent outcomes onto choice, for different learning rates. Shown is the influence of the outcomes received on the last seven trials for making a choice on the current trial, for three different learning rates. Red shows a hypothetical participant with a learning rate of 0.9. This learner updates strongly based on recent outcomes. There is a strong influence of the outcome on the previous trial...
    Computational modelling of social cognition and behaviourβ€”a reinforcement learning primer
    From academic.oup.com
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    May 28, 2024
    Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation nature.com/articles/s4156… with @DrJoCutler @BrainInTheMind + many others. We show multiple causal roles of vmPFC in prosocial motivation, effort and reward in a rare large cohort with focal vmPFC damage
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    Patricia Lockwood
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    Feb 9, 2022
    Very honoured and excited to receive the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! and to join a set of past and present award recipients whose work I really admire.
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    Association for Psychological Science
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    Feb 9, 2022
    Congratulations, 2022 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recipients! πŸŽ‰ @kaczkurkin, @NeilLewisJr, @orielf, @JOkonofua, @thepsychologist, Brett Ford, Brian Anderson, Kai Chi (Sam) Yam #psychtwitter psychologicalscience.org/members/awards…
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    Patricia Lockwood
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    Jan 1, 2019
    Good news to start 2019! I have been named a APS rising star! thank you @utafrith and @mollycrockett for the nominations πŸ˜€
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    Patricia Lockwood
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    Sep 22, 2021
    🌟I will soon be advertising for a postdoc in social learning and decision-making! sdn-lab.org 🌟The post is for 2 yrs (extension possible). We are looking for someone with experience and/or strong interest in comp modelling, brain imaging, lifespan studies.
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    Social Decision Neuroscience Lab
    Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Apr 12, 2024
    🌟🌟 🌟 New fully funded 3.5 year PhD in Decision Neuroscience 🌟🌟🌟 join us at sdn-lab.org to study the neurocomputational mechanisms of social behaviour findaphd.com/phds/project/p…. Open to international students. Deadline 10th May. Please RT!
    sdn-lab.org
    Social Decision Neuroscience Lab
    Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.
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    Patricia Lockwood
    @thepsychologist
    Aug 12, 2019
    Want to apply reinforcement learning models in your social neuroscience studies? see our new preprint "Computational modelling of social cognition and behaviour - a reinforcement learning primer" New with the brilliant @MKFlugge! psyarxiv.com/r69e7