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ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2026

Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health.

Dan-Mircea Mirea, Erik C Nook, Yael Niv

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Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dan-Mircea MireaDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Electronic address: dmirea@princeton.edu.
Erik C NookDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Yael NivDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Funding

Project 4: Neural mechanisms underlying latent-cause inferenceP50MH136296 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Yael Niv · 2024 to 2026
$12.9M
A Computational Psychiatry Investigation of the effects of Mood on Reward Learning and AttentionR01MH119511 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI NIV, YAEL · 2019 to 2023
$2.3M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH136296NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH119511
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A core strength of computational psychiatry is its focus on theory-driven research, in which cognitive processes are precisely quantified using computational models that formalize specific theoretical mechanisms. However, the data used in these studies often come from traditional laboratory-based cognitive tasks, which have unclear ecological validity. In this review we propose that the same theoretical frameworks and computational models can be applied to real-world data such as experience sampling, passive data, and digital-behavior data (e.g., online activity such as on social media). In turn, modeling real-world data can benefit from a theory-driven computational approach to move from purely predictive to explanatory power. We illustrate these points using emerging studies and discuss the challenges and opportunities of using real-world data in computational psychiatry.

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CognitionMental HealthModels, PsychologicalHumanscomputational psychiatryexperience samplinglarge-language modelspassive datareinforcement learningsocial media

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PMID41006085
PMCPMC12662710

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