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Measuring people’s internal models of motor error distribution

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1272

NEUROSCIENCE Measuring people’s internal models of motor error distribution ABSTRACT A good decision maker in perception and action (e.g. a good surgeon) needs to allow for the irreducible errors in her own movement. In simple reaching tasks, the...

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New Research from NYU, Princeton and UCL Researchers Published in PLoS Computational Biology

June 6, 2019 by isdm 2893

New Research from NYU, Princeton and UCL Researchers Published in PLoS Computational Biology February 16, 2017 The decisions we make are only as good as the information we base those decisions off of, but a lot of that information comes to us via...

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Acute Stress and Reinforcement Learning

June 26, 2019 by isdm 3647

NEUROSCIENCE Acute Stress and Reinforcement Learning ABSTRACT The physiological response evoked by short-lived stressful events, referred to as acute stress, impacts human decision-making. Past studies assume that stress causes people to fall...

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Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1144

NEUROSCIENCE Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences AUTHORS:  Paul Glimcher, Michael A. Grubb, Agnieszka Tymula, Sharon Gilaie-Dotanand Ifat Levy ABSTRACT Many decisions involve uncertainty, or...

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Computational Phenotypes of Decision Making in Heroin Addiction

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1771

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

June 26, 2019 by isdm 3531

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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Three Exciting Papers Published by ISDM Prof. Jay van Bavel

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1722

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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Estimating the perceptual decisions of others

June 25, 2019 by isdm 1279

NEUROSCIENCE Estimating the perceptual decisions of others ABSTRACT An important corollary of a Bayesian model of insight is that this model can be applied to estimate confidence in others’ decisions, assigning a degree of responsibility to other...

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Modeling and Measuring Costs of Learning

June 25, 2019 by isdm 1336

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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The bounded log-odds model of frequency and probability distortion

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1778

NEUROSCIENCE The bounded log-odds model of frequency and probability distortion ABSTRACT People systematically distort probability and frequency information in decision-making and in many other perceptual, motor and cognitive tasks. We show that...

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Winter is coming: detecting and exploiting period changes in probability

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1457

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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