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NEUROSCIENCE Dynamical analysis of value coding ABSTRACT Information coding in the brain is often viewed in terms of equilibrium levels of activity, but neural circuits exhibit marked temporal dynamics during the decision process. Significant...
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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 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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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 Information sampling behavior with explicit sampling costs AUTHORS: Laurence Maloney,Todd M. Gureckis, and Mordechai Juni. ABSTRACT The decision to gather information should take into account both the value of information...
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NEUROSCIENCE The effects of stress on aversive and appetitive conditioning and reversal ABSTRACT In this line of studies, we are examining how acute stress influences the way in which participants learn to assign aversive or appetitive value to...
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