NEUROSCIENCE Saving the masses: The impact of perceived efficacy on charitable giving to single vs. multiple beneficiaries AUTHORS: Professor Vicki Morwitz and Professor Eesha Sharma ABSTRACT People are more generous toward...
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NEUROSCIENCE Interoception and Decision-Making ABSTRACT Studies on the roles of emotion in decision-making have highlighted a powerful role for emotions in influencing choices. The source of the individual differences in emotional responses, and...
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NEUROSCIENCE Pupil dilation contributes to insight in decision-making ABSTRACT Insight in decision-making refers to the accurate appraisal of one’s skills and capabilities. In this study we found that participants who had better insight...
More infoDynamic estimation of task-relevant variance in movement under risk
NEUROSCIENCE Dynamic estimation of task-relevant variance in movement under risk AUTHORS: Michael Landy, Julia Trommershäuser, Nathaniel Daw ABSTRACT Humans take into account their own movement variability as well as potential consequences...
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NEUROSCIENCE Neural dynamics of decision confidence ABSTRACT Previous studies in non-human primates have revealed neural activity in the parietal and prefrontal cortex that correlates with the animal’s confidence after a decision has been made...
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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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Neural bases of self-control and adaptive behavior
NEUROSCIENCE Neural bases of self-control and adaptive behavior ABSTRACT Influential research suggests that exercising self-control depletes a limited cognitive resource, of unclear identity. But a slack in performance needs not invoke resource...
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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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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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Calling All Grad Students! Attention Graduate students and faculty at the start of your careers: Looking for a summer program or to expand your horizons? There will be a 2nd Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics based in Santa Barbara...
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