<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Wise Lab</title><link>/</link><description>Recent content on Wise Lab</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 08:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>How to make Python code faster</title><link>/blog/python_parallel/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>/blog/python_parallel/</guid><description>As a fanatical Python enthusiast, I have frequently tried to convert Matlab users to my preferred language.</description></item><item><title>New paper on attention during aversive learning</title><link>/blog/new-paper-on-attention/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>/blog/new-paper-on-attention/</guid><description>I recently had a new paper published, which is the first project I’ve completed as part of my current fellowship.</description></item><item><title>Running online experiments using Google Firebase</title><link>/blog/firebase-for-online-testing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:07:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>/blog/firebase-for-online-testing/</guid><description>Online testing is becoming a popular way of running psychological experiments.</description></item><item><title>How to survive a fellowship interview</title><link>/blog/how-to-survive-a-fellowship-interview/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:44:00 -0500</pubDate><guid>/blog/how-to-survive-a-fellowship-interview/</guid><description>Fellowship interviews are generally terrifying affairs that few escape without some degree of psychological distress.</description></item><item><title>Making science with neural networks</title><link>/blog/making-science-with-neural-networks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>/blog/making-science-with-neural-networks/</guid><description>As scientists, our primary aim is to publish papers in flashy journals such as Nature and Science (despite some claims that we should instead be focusing on extending human knowledge).</description></item><item><title>How to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship in ten easy steps</title><link>/blog/how-to-apply-for-a-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-ten-easy-steps/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:30:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>/blog/how-to-apply-for-a-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-ten-easy-steps/</guid><description>Figuring out what to do after your PhD can be stressful.</description></item><item><title>Bethan Barrett</title><link>/people/bethan-barrett/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/bethan-barrett/</guid><description>Bethan is a PhD based at Plymouth University (primary supervisor Elsa Fouragnan).</description></item><item><title>Ingrid Martin</title><link>/people/ingrid-martin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/ingrid-martin/</guid><description>Ingrid Martin is a postdoc in the lab. Her work focuses on understanding information seeking and exploration behaviour, and how these processes interact with planning in the context of anxiety.</description></item><item><title>Join</title><link>/join/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/join/</guid><description>PhD positions PhD positions are dependent upon funding being available and this funding always comes from external sources - while we are happy to hear from prospective students, we will only be able to discuss PhD projects via the relevant funding schemes listed here.</description></item><item><title>Lei Luo</title><link>/people/lei-luo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/lei-luo/</guid><description>Lei Luo is a PhD student working on transdiagnostic neural mechanisms of mental health.</description></item><item><title>Mahalia Prater Fahey</title><link>/people/mahalia-prater-fahey/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/mahalia-prater-fahey/</guid><description>Mahalia is a postdoc in the lab. Her work focuses on understanding how people decide to plan ahead in complex environments.</description></item><item><title>Marko Dimitrovski</title><link>/people/marko-dimitrovski/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/marko-dimitrovski/</guid><description>Marko Dimitrovski is a PhD student in the lab. His work focuses on how antidepressant drugs influence learning, decision-making, and interoception.</description></item><item><title>Publications</title><link>/publications/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/publications/</guid><description>Preprints
Sookud, S., Martin, I., Gillan, C., Wise, T. Impaired goal-directed planning in transdiagnostic compulsivity is explained by uncertainty about learned task structure.</description></item><item><title>Research</title><link>/research/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/research/</guid><description>Our research uses methods from computational neuroscience to understand how we learn and make decisions, and to explore how these decision-making processes are involved in common mental health problems like anxiety and depression Repetitive negative thought Worry and rumination, types of repetitive negative thought patterns, are common and debilitating symptoms of mood and anxiety disorders.</description></item><item><title>Resources</title><link>/resources/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/resources/</guid><description>Software Here are some tools we&amp;rsquo;ve developed.
FACSIMILE: A package for predicting questionnaire scores from reduced item sets.</description></item><item><title>Sean Cavanagh</title><link>/people/sean-cavanagh/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/sean-cavanagh/</guid><description>Sean is an Academic Clinical Fellow and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.</description></item><item><title>Toby Wise</title><link>/people/toby-wise/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/toby-wise/</guid><description>Toby Wise is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Neuroimaging at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology &amp; Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London.</description></item><item><title>Yu-Yan Gao</title><link>/people/yuyan-gao/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/people/yuyan-gao/</guid><description>Yu-Yan is a PhD student in the lab working on hierarchical reinforcement learning.</description></item></channel></rss>