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NEUROSCIENCE The role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning ABSTRACT The idea that there are parallel learning and decision-making systems in the brain is ubiquitous in neuroscience, where a division is often made between systems that...

NEUROSCIENCE The price of success ABSTRACT How much should you pay for a better chance at success? For this project, we approached individuals in a city park and had them play a novel lottery using a small set of black and white marbles in an...

NEUROSCIENCE Emotion and decision making under uncertainty ABSTRACT Different forms and degrees of uncertainty, such as risk (known probabilities) and ambiguity (unknown probabilities), create quantitatively different signals about choice...

NEUROSCIENCE Learning the probability of success in a simple motor task from sequences of success and failure ABSTRACT Successful decision making depends on accurate knowledge of probabilities of outcomes: should I really try to climb that sheer...

NEUROSCIENCE Interrupting counterfactual representations in the lateral frontal pole ABSTRACT I am collaborating with researchers at Oxford University who have discovered that the lateral frontal pole displays a unique connectivity profile in...