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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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NEUROSCIENCE Retailer Pricing and Consumer Choice under Price Uncertainty ABSTRACT Based on the implicit assumption that consumers’ average price perceptions guide their retailer choice, previous research examined how different retailer pricing...
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NEUROSCIENCE Decision Making under Stress: acute stress influences how we learn to trust others ABSTRACT Stress—a ubiquitous part of everyday life—can affect our daily decisions. We explore how acute stress changes choice behavior in a trust...
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Call for Posters from the Brain Imaging Center at the Icahn School of Medicine The Brain Imaging Center (BIC) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be hosting its 3rd Annual Symposium on Wednesday, October 19th and release...
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NEUROSCIENCE The role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning ABSTRACT The idea that there are parallel learning and decision-making systems in the brain is ubiquitous in neuroscience, where a division is often made between systems that...
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NEUROSCIENCE Criterion learning for perceptual decisions under uncertainty ABSTRACT Signal detection theory posits that observers set a fixed criterion in making a forced-choice decision based on noisy sensory information. How is that criterion...
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NEUROSCIENCE Costly information sampling ABSTRACT Theories of optimal information sampling assert that the decision to gather information should take into account accrual costs: time, energy, and money. This project explored how effectively...
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NEUROSCIENCE The price of success ABSTRACT How much should you pay for a better chance at success? For this project, we approached individuals in a city park and had them play a novel lottery using a small set of black and white marbles in an...
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