Studying the algorithms and circuits of decision making, emotion, and biological and artificial learning at Johns Hopkinshttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mxjgnbpbxs2sVery interesting!! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02475-x10 Oct 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxjgnbpbxs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mxelrtu6tc2xI stand with the victims of the terrible the pogrom of Oct 7. My family brought me to America from russia to escape such violence. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxelrtu6tc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mwcpaxkng22r1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat? New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.18.752614v125 Sep 2026 02:16 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwcpaxkng22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mvnxm6t2cs27Deeply incredible. Congrats [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Sep 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnxm6t2cs27https://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mvlebozkas27New preprint! 🧠 How do reward, risk & information preferences relate to psychopathology? How do they vary across decisions about gains vs. losses? 1,954 people! Hundreds of economic choices each + transdiagnostic assessment of mental health symptoms online. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.09.750300v115 Sep 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlebozkas27https://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3ms7wkshxi22gExcited to speak at CalTech and hear the exciting work from others: wellbeing-agency.jp/symposium2026/ https://wellbeing-agency.jp/symposium2026/04 Aug 2026 02:08 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7wkshxi22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mquhelzrm225Ecology of curiosity framework for adaptive and maladaptive human–AI ecosystems --a generalist article with psychology and neuroscience (this is a companion to the Arxiv I recently posted) https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w2cbs_v117 Jul 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquhelzrm225https://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mq53o2bf5s2tarxiv.org/abs/2607.06214 https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.0621408 Jul 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq53o2bf5s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mpqnvypb5k2vGo Julia Pai, Fatih Sogukpinar et al. Heavily revised work on astrocytes role in learning. Incredibly grateful for the team's hard work on this. Extended biology and theory now added! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683205v203 Jul 2026 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqnvypb5k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mo57wxz23k25New beautiful normative/theory paper from Ethan Bromberg-Martin with Josh Merel Why are we curious? What is the origin of our non instrumental seeming information preference? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.09.731206v113 Jun 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo57wxz23k25https://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3ml32f7ns3c2kback at revising this beast on astrocytes and learning.... [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 01:37 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml32f7ns3c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mklx3y53ss2khappy 2 see Dr Okihide Hikosaka elected to NAS Okihide has done an amazing amount of true discovery Think big contributions to understanding of mechanisms of saccadic control, chunking and skill formation, reinforcement learning, and more! Also a great mentor and friend.29 Apr 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklx3y53ss2khttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mjpv6d4tr22dCongratulations to my great students Arman Hatami and Romina Aalishah on their new study of machine unlearning and forgetting accepted. arxiv.org/abs/2604.15166 This has had clear implications for ML and neuroscience (albeit from different angles), and we continue this work in both disciplines…. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.1516617 Apr 2026 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpv6d4tr22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mips35mxf22cI am deeply grateful to the Bloomberg Endowment for supporting both our research and broader vision! We hope that our work will contribute to next generation of psychiatry treatments, bci, and ai development. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Apr 2026 03:18 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mips35mxf22chttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3mermn2rk4s2eGreat Bita [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2026 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mermn2rk4s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3megsnwpcss2o! New paper from the lab ! How does novelty impact value-based decision making ? What are the circuits and what mechanisms do they implement? Congratulations to Dr. Takaya Ogasawara and team https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(25)00938-909 Feb 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3megsnwpcss2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3m3o6iunrt22tHow do non-neuronal CNS cells called astrocytes contribute to cognition & computation? See our preprint Headed by my students Julia Pai and Fatih Sogukpinar, also working with Hiratani, Pignatelli, Papouin, Frank, and Ching labs. This was a huge effort https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683205v121 Oct 2025 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3o6iunrt22thttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3lofcx7lkb22dSome professional news : My team is moving to Johns Hopkins University this Summer. I am deeply grateful to Washington University for supporting us since 2014. It has been an amazing journey full of brilliant colleagues and friends.05 May 2025 02:26 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lofcx7lkb22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3lnc3brr2sk2pNew work! How does perceptual novelty impact the value of (physical) rewards: what are the underlying algorithms and neural mechanisms? The answers may help to construct smarter AIs and to understand how and why novelty seeking breaks in psychiatric disorders. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.648986v121 Apr 2025 02:06 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnc3brr2sk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3llvw466fkk2lcongrats @alexkwan.bsky.social https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08813-603 Apr 2025 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3llvw466fkk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/monosovlab.bsky.social/post/3lgslnsueuc2lFirst blue sky post is to celebrate! Incredibly proud of Dr Julia Pai. Fantastic defense and pioneering project on non-neuronal cells in Reinforcement Learning! Now almost off to her next chapter. Paper in prep!28 Jan 2025 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:tmtomitllcnk6udf7nvd22tk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgslnsueuc2l