NEUROSCIENCE Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences AUTHORS: Paul Glimcher, Michael A. Grubb, Agnieszka Tymula, Sharon Gilaie-Dotanand Ifat Levy ABSTRACT Many decisions involve uncertainty, or...
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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 Modeling and Measuring Costs of Learning ABSTRACT Theoretical and experimental research is ongoing on models of imperfect perception and how it is impacted by the incentive to learn. The project provides new characterizations of the...
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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 Goods & Actions, Model-based and Model-free ABSTRACT Two parallel lines of research have begun to identify the neural correlations and mechanisms underlying decision-making and learning. One line has focused on the distinction...
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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 Pupil dilation contributes to insight in decision-making ABSTRACT Insight in decision-making refers to the accurate appraisal of one’s skills and capabilities. In this study we found that participants who had better insight...
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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 Projection Bias ABSTRACT Projection bias is exemplified by the “shopping while hungry” phenomenon, in which people overbuy at the supermarket when they’re hungry, incorrectly anticipating the kinds and amount of food they’ll want...
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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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