When Desire is Stronger than Debt Aversion: Enticing Consumers with Interest-Free Deals
NEUROSCIENCE Social and Monetary Reward Learning in Schizophrenia ABSTRACT People with schizophrenia have severe social cognitive impairments...
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NEUROSCIENCE Costly information sampling ABSTRACT Theories of optimal information sampling assert that the decision to gather information should...
Read moreEmotion and decision making under uncertainty
NEUROSCIENCE Emotion and decision making under uncertainty ABSTRACT Different forms and degrees of uncertainty, such as risk (known probabilities)...
Read moreForaging, serial decision making and the opportunity cost of time
NEUROSCIENCE Foraging, serial decision making and the opportunity cost of time ABSTRACT We have an ongoing series of studies that use a...
Read moreThe role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning
NEUROSCIENCE The role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning ABSTRACT The idea that there are parallel learning and decision-making systems...
Read moreEffects of brain lesions on perceptual confidence
NEUROSCIENCE Effects of brain lesions on perceptual confidence ABSTRACT Insight in decision-making refers to the accurate appraisal of one’s...
Read moreProjection Bias
NEUROSCIENCE Projection Bias ABSTRACT Projection bias is exemplified by the “shopping while hungry” phenomenon, in which people overbuy at the...
Read moreCan deep brain stimulation reduce preference for cocaine?
NEUROSCIENCE A Drosophila model for studying the neuronal bases of decision-making ABSTRACT I work in the NYU Biology department in Justin Blau’s...
Read moreGoods & Actions, Model-based and Model-free
NEUROSCIENCE Goods & Actions, Model-based and Model-free ABSTRACT Two parallel lines of research have begun to identify the neural...
Read moreA Bayesian model of insight
NEUROSCIENCE A Bayesian model of insight ABSTRACT We are building a computational model of insight. The core of this model permits actions to...
Read moreAcute Stress and Reinforcement Learning
NEUROSCIENCE Acute Stress and Reinforcement Learning ABSTRACT The physiological response evoked by short-lived stressful events, referred to as...
Read moreSuboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments
NEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments AUTHORS: LElyse H. Norton, Stephen M...
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