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NEUROSCIENCE Goods & Actions, Model-based and Model-free ABSTRACT Two parallel lines of research have begun to identify the neural correlations and mechanisms underlying decision-making and learning. One line has focused on the distinction...
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More infoUsing Single-Neuron Recording in Marketing: Opportunities, Challenges, and an Application to Fear Enhancement in Communications
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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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 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...
More infoForaging, serial decision making and the opportunity cost of time
NEUROSCIENCE Foraging, serial decision making and the opportunity cost of time ABSTRACT We have an ongoing series of studies that use a patch-foraging paradigm from ecology in order to investigate how individuals make serial (stop/search)...
More infoThree Exciting Papers Published by ISDM Prof. Jay van Bavel
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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More infoEvidence demonstrating working memory limitations in human decision-making
NEUROSCIENCE Evidence demonstrating working memory limitations in human decision-making ABSTRACT If you were asked to evaluate the lottery [0.8765 probability of $99.98 or 0.1235 probability of $53.46], you will likely “edit” the numbers by...
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NEUROSCIENCE A Drosophila model for studying the neuronal bases of decision-making ABSTRACT I work in the NYU Biology department in Justin Blau’s team, developing a model for decision-making in the fruitfly Drosophila. I have designed a novel...
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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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