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NEUROSCIENCE Parkinson’s Disease and Risky Monetary Decision-Making ABSTRACT Dopamine is intimately involved in decision-making, but its contributions to risky choice are incompletely understood. In Parkinson’s disease, there is a selective...
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NEUROSCIENCE Measuring people’s internal models of motor error distribution ABSTRACT A good decision maker in perception and action (e.g. a good surgeon) needs to allow for the irreducible errors in her own movement. In simple reaching tasks, the...
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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...
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Researchers Uncover the Neurobiological Basis For Risk Aversion as We Age December 13, 2016 New research out of NYU’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making (NYU IISDM) shows how age itself is not the determining factor in...
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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 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...
More infoSuboptimal decision criteria are predicted by subjectively weighted probabilities and rewards
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...
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NEUROSCIENCE 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...
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