NEUROSCIENCE Role of non-monetary incentives in decision making ABSTRACT People show age-related changes in decision-making. Therefore, we want to investigate the correlation between the brain structures and the generalized axiom of revealed...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE ISDM Researchers Discover Neuroscience Link Between Sports, Weather, and Gambling AUTHORS: A. Ross Otto, Stephen M. Fleming and Paul W. Glimcher ABSTRACT The fact that your favorite sports team unexpectedly won yesterday won’t...
More infoCalling All Grad Students! Attention Graduate students and faculty at the start of your careers: Looking for a summer program or to expand your horizons? There will be a 2nd Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics based in Santa Barbara...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Neural dynamics of decision confidence ABSTRACT Previous studies in non-human primates have revealed neural activity in the parietal and prefrontal cortex that correlates with the animal’s confidence after a decision has been made...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoInterested in what makes people tick? Or do you want to work in a vibrant educational environment where no matter what you do you are sure to learn new things? ISDM is working to understand the roots of human behavior and decision making and...
More infoNew 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Learning the probability of success in a simple motor task from sequences of success and failure ABSTRACT Successful decision making depends on accurate knowledge of probabilities of outcomes: should I really try to climb that sheer...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Effects of brain lesions on perceptual confidence ABSTRACT Insight in decision-making refers to the accurate appraisal of one’s skills and capabilities. The neural basis of insight is poorly understood. In this study we found that...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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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The HUMAN Project at the 39th MCC Annual 3rd Avenue Community Benefit Festival The HUMAN Project team held a booth on Sunday, September 11th from 10AM to 6PM at the 39th MCC Annual Third Avenue Community Benefit Festival. The festival ran...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Reference-dependence in intertemporal choice ABSTRACT In our current study, we measure emotional arousal while individuals make decisions between smaller, immediate monetary rewards and later, larger rewards. We find that both...
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