Author page: isdm

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...

NEUROSCIENCE A Bayesian model of insight ABSTRACT We are building a computational model of insight. The core of this model permits actions to dissociate from intentions. Our model provides a Bayesian “definition” of insight as the probability...

NEUROSCIENCE Restoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself ABSTRACT Classic social psychology and experimental economic studies argue that punishment is the ubiquitous response to violations of fairness norms. We...

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...

NEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal decision criteria are predicted by subjectively weighted probabilities and rewards ABSTRACT Subjects performed a visual detection task with varied probability of target occurrence and rewards. To maximize monetary gain...