NEUROSCIENCE Efficient coding in decision circuits ABSTRACT A fundamental feature of neurobiological systems is adaptive coding, where neural activity reflects the recent history of information processing. Such adaptation is thought to be...
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NEUROSCIENCE An Analysis of Decision under Risk in Rats AUTHORS Christine Constantinople ABSTRACT In 1979, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky published a ground-breaking paper titled ‘‘Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,’’ which...
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NEUROSCIENCE Costly information sampling ABSTRACT Theories of optimal information sampling assert that the decision to gather information should take into account accrual costs: time, energy, and money. This project explored how effectively...
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NEUROSCIENCE Modeling and Measuring Costs of Learning ABSTRACT Theoretical and experimental research is ongoing on models of imperfect perception and how it is impacted by the incentive to learn. The project provides new characterizations of the...
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NEUROSCIENCE Computational Phenotypes of Decision Making in Heroin Addiction AUTHORS: Anna B Konova, Silvia Lopez-Guzman, John Rotrosen, Stephen Ross and Paul W Glimcher. ABSTRACT Decision-making is strongly affected by drugs of abuse. The...
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NEUROSCIENCE Decision Making under Stress: acute stress influences how we learn to trust others ABSTRACT Stress—a ubiquitous part of everyday life—can affect our daily decisions. We explore how acute stress changes choice behavior in a trust...
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Researchers Uncover the Neurobiological Basis For Risk Aversion as We Age December 13, 2016 New research out of NYU’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making (NYU IISDM) shows how age itself is not the determining factor in...
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NEUROSCIENCE The effects of stress on aversive and appetitive conditioning and reversal ABSTRACT In this line of studies, we are examining how acute stress influences the way in which participants learn to assign aversive or appetitive value to...
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