COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
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The Computational Psychopathology Lab investigates cognition and mental health through human and non-human behavioural experiments paired with computational modelling. We study how individuals learn about the causal structure of their environments, how they perceive agency—both their own and others’—and how these learning processes shape reasoning.

Our work spans childhood to adulthood, and we collaborate closely with researchers across universities, industry partners, and clinicians. The models we develop enhance understanding of learning and decision-making, with applications in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and mental health.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Agency

This project investigates how people learn about and judge their own control and the control of others, and how this differs with varying levels of depressive symptoms. Using a free-operant task and computational (active inference) models, we examine how individuals sample the environments to produce observations for them to learn from and infer agency in both solo and social contexts.

Publication: 
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/ckfrt

Contingency Learning

We examine how people judge the relationship between a cue and an outcome by varying the proportions of four event types: A (cue and outcome present), B (cue present, outcome absent), C (cue absent, outcome present), and D (cue and outcome absent). The project focuses on how these “D” events, in particular, influence people’s perceived contingencies.

Publication: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ac511c57-e2b6-490a-8cef-7e29a1777b0a/files/s05741t50b ​

Logical Reasoning

This project explores how logical reasoning emerges in children and whether similar abilities appear in non-human animals. Through experiments and computational modelling, we investigate the development of abstract thinking and what this reveals about the nature and evolution of intelligence.

Publication: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384928560_Reasoning_by_exclusion_in_food-caching_Eurasian_jays_Garrulus_glandarius 

CURRENT COLLABORATIONS

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PREVIOUS COLLABORATIONS

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