New paper out in Neuropsychologia. With our colleagues from the Yale Child Study Center we show that neural responses (FM-theta) to peer rejection relate to individual differences in cognitive processes underlying social judgment decisions in adolescents with high and low separation anxiety.

Super proud to report that our first product from the NWO talent grant awarded to Elise Kortink has been published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. This was a great collaboration with Selin Topel, Hanjie Liu, and Jim Cavanagh! We examined the neurocomputational processes underlying aversive learning biases in social anxiety. Participants (n = 154) completed a probabilistic selection task in two contexts: alone and under observation. Our findings suggest that social anxiety modulates EEG FM-theta activity in aversive control, promoting reactive avoidance in decision-making, particularly when performing alone. This mechanistic insight links social anxiety to a cascade of orienting, control, and learning biases and positions FM-theta as a potential neural target for interventions aimed at reducing maladaptive avoidance and enhancing adaptive learning in socially anxious individuals.

The #EEGManylabs network published its first replication study in Cortex! Led by Katharina Paul, we replicated Hajcak et al. (20025)  that examined the brain potentials associated with expected and unexpected good and bad outcomes. Across 13 labs worldwide, 259 participants performed a guessing task while EEG was recorded. Unlike Hajcak et al, we found that both the FRN and P300 were modulated by feedback expectancy and valence. Our replication study challenges the notions that (1) the FRN solely represents binary outcome valence processing, and (2) that the P300 is blind to outcome valence. This #EEGManyLabs  replication underscores the complexity of feedback processing in the brain and reveals several advantages of a large and collaborative EEG data collection to gain novel insights. 

Our lab contributed to a commentary on 100 years of EEG for brain and behavior research. This commentary led by Faisal Musthaq and a great team of EEG researchers has been published in Nature Human Behavior. 

Interested? Read the commentary here

Together with our colleagues from Yale, we've published a first paper presenting the advantages of using computational modeling to examine individual differences in peer feedback expectancies using the Social Judgment Paradigm. Read our paper here

Katie Herbert joined the lab as a thesis student! Welcome, Katie!

Read more about her research in the lab here.

Marcello Pepe has joined the lab as an Honours Research Bachelor student. Welcome Marcello! Read more about his research in the lab here.

Simge Nur Sarikaya joined the lab as Erasmus+ student to work on her master thesis and assisted the lab as lab manager. Welcome Simge! Read more about her role in our lab here.

The British Neuroscience Association has awarded #EEGManyLabs the “Credibility in Neuroscience Team Award”.  The panel commented that they were impressed by the demonstrable outcomes that our efforts have already had, and the potential for further impact to improve Credibility in Neuroscience on a global scale.  The CoDAP lab is proud to be part of this great project!

The first #EEGManylabs replication project has been accepted as a registered report at Cortex. The CoDAP Lab is one of the many labs that will contribute to "Revisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing – A Multi-lab replication"

Kyra L'Amie and Iga Skorupska joined the lab for their master theses. Read more about her research objectives here