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Rat Prefrontal Cortex Inactivations during Decision Making Are Explained by Bistable Attractor Dynamics

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1569

NEUROSCIENCE Rat Prefrontal Cortex Inactivations during Decision Making Are Explained by Bistable Attractor Dynamics AUTHORS:  Alex T. Piet, Jeffrey C. Erlich, Charles D. Kopec, and Carlos D. Brody ABSTRACT Two-node attractor...

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Using Single-Neuron Recording in Marketing: Opportunities, Challenges, and an Application to Fear Enhancement in Communications

June 26, 2019 by isdm 3440

NEUROSCIENCE Using Single-Neuron Recording in Marketing: Opportunities, Challenges, and an Application to Fear Enhancement in Communications ABSTRACT This paper introduces the method of single-neuron recording in humans to marketing and consumer...

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Winter is coming: detecting and exploiting period changes in probability

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1388

NEUROSCIENCE Winter is coming: detecting and exploiting period changes in probability ABSTRACT Summer and winter, day and night: periodic change is abundant in the natural environment. We examine whether people can detect and exploit period...

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Criterion learning for perceptual decisions under uncertainty

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1157

NEUROSCIENCE Criterion learning for perceptual decisions under uncertainty ABSTRACT Signal detection theory posits that observers set a fixed criterion in making a forced-choice decision based on noisy sensory information. How is that criterion...

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Economic decision-making in Drosophila larvae

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1298

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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Decision Making under Stress: acute stress influences how we learn to trust others

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1535

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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Entertainment

January 12, 2016 by isdm 3511
Entertainment

Discover the natural beauty & resorces of City’s outdoors

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Saving the Masses: The Role of Perceived Efficacy in Charitable Giving

June 26, 2019 by isdm 3169

NEUROSCIENCE Saving the Masses: The Role of Perceived Efficacy in Charitable Giving ABSTRACT People tend to be more sympathetic and generous to single than to multiple beneficiaries. We identify one factor—perceived efficacy—that when increased...

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Interrupting counterfactual representations in the lateral frontal pole

June 25, 2019 by isdm 1326

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...

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Thinking About Thinking and Its Cognitive Limits

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1199

NEUROSCIENCE Thinking About Thinking and Its Cognitive Limits AUTHORS:  Adam Brandenburger and Xiaomin Li ABSTRACT Evidence shows that when engaged in game-playing tasks, individuals think about what other individuals are thinking. Presumably...

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The neural coding of value information

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1432

NEUROSCIENCE The neural coding of value information ABSTRACT The neural coding of value information is critical to the decision process, guiding the choice between potential options and bridging the gap between sensation and action. We have...

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Reference-dependence in intertemporal choice

June 26, 2019 by isdm 2220

NEUROSCIENCE Reference-dependence in intertemporal choice ABSTRACT In our current study, we measure emotional arousal while individuals make decisions between smaller, immediate monetary rewards and later, larger rewards. We find that both...

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