Three Exciting Papers Published by ISDM Prof. Jay van Bavel May 10, 2017 Congratulations to Professor Jay van Bavel, who collaborated in three papers that have recently been published. For the paper, Decoding “us” and “them”: Neural...
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NEUROSCIENCE Social Contagion ABSTRACT Decisions are often made around other people, even if the choices themselves don’t involve and are not about others. We know surprisingly little about the role of emotions in this particular kind of...
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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 Choice of saccade endpoint under risk ABSTRACT We ask whether human observers choose saccade endpoints that maximize expected gain when there are explicit rewards associated with correctly detecting the target in a visual search...
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Dr. Kenway Louie is a guest on WPR’s Joy Cardin Show Dr. Kenway Louie, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Neural Science at NYU’s Center for Neural Science (CNS), was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio (an NPR affiliate) on the Joy Cardin...
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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 Cortical computations underlying decision-making ABSTRACT Relative value coding is governed by divisive normalization, a computational algorithm widely described in sensory cortices, suggesting a common cortical mechanism for...
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Call for Posters from the Brain Imaging Center at the Icahn School of Medicine The Brain Imaging Center (BIC) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be hosting its 3rd Annual Symposium on Wednesday, October 19th and release...
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NEUROSCIENCE Propranolol and Loss Aversion ABSTRACT Previous work has suggested that arousal responses to gain and loss outcomes are related to loss aversion in participants’ choices. Though these previous data are correlational, they suggest a...
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NEUROSCIENCE Rational Imprecision: Information Processing, Neural, and Choice-Rule Perspectives AUTHORS: Kai Steverson, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher ABSTRACT People make mistakes. A rationally imprecise decision...
More infoRestoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself
NEUROSCIENCE Restoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself ABSTRACT Classic social psychology and experimental economic studies argue that punishment is the ubiquitous response to violations of fairness norms. We...
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