NEUROSCIENCE Decision-Making Across the Life Span ABSTRACT Characterizing behavioral changes in decision-making across the life span and understanding why they occur has significant implications for behavioral problems associated with poor...
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NEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal decision criteria are predicted by subjectively weighted probabilities and rewards ABSTRACT Subjects performed a visual detection task with varied probability of target occurrence and rewards. To maximize monetary gain...
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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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Role of non-monetary incentives in decision making
NEUROSCIENCE Role of non-monetary incentives in decision making ABSTRACT People show age-related changes in decision-making. Therefore, we want to investigate the correlation between the brain structures and the generalized axiom of revealed...
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NEUROSCIENCE Information sampling behavior with explicit sampling costs AUTHORS: Laurence Maloney,Todd M. Gureckis, and Mordechai Juni. ABSTRACT The decision to gather information should take into account both the value of information...
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Interested in what makes people tick? Or do you want to work in a vibrant educational environment where no matter what you do you are sure to learn new things? ISDM is working to understand the roots of human behavior and decision making and...
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NEUROSCIENCE Genes, Smoking, and Health ABSTRACT Research on the impact of genes on smoking and through smoking on health. We are using the genomic Health and Retirement Survey both to confirm earlier GWAS findings on smoking and genes, and to...
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NEUROSCIENCE Economic decision-making in Drosophila larvae ABSTRACT The goal of this project is two-fold. First, we use tools from microeconomics to characterize the choices of wild type Drosophila larvae as they tradeoff goods (dark and food) in...
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