NEUROSCIENCE Cognitive Control Mode Predicts Behavioral Expression of Model-Based Reinforcement-Learning ABSTRACT A converging body of work suggests that cognitive control operates via two distinct operating modes – proactive control and reactive...
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NEUROSCIENCE Risk preferences in New Yorkers’ everyday decisions. Correlation of risk preferences across different decision-making domains. ABSTRACT Most of the important decisions that we make in life are made under conditions of uncertainty...
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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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ECONOMICS Testing the DDM: A Behavioral Experiment to Measure Evidence Accumulation During Decision MakingAUTHORS: Stefan F. Bucher and Paul W. Glimcher OBJECTIVE Drift-diffusion models (DDM) have had empirical success in fitting choice and...
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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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Calling 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...
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NEUROSCIENCE An Analysis of Decision under Risk in Rats AUTHORS Christine Constantinople ABSTRACT In 1979, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky published a ground-breaking paper titled ‘‘Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,’’ which...
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NEUROSCIENCE Insight and addiction ABSTRACT Previous studies have suggested impairments in insight in neuropsychiatric disorders. However it is often difficult to distill impairments in insight from other cognitive impairments. Together with...
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NEUROSCIENCE Saving the masses: The impact of perceived efficacy on charitable giving to single vs. multiple beneficiaries AUTHORS: Professor Vicki Morwitz and Professor Eesha Sharma ABSTRACT People are more generous toward...
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NEUROSCIENCE Social Contagion ABSTRACT Decisions are often made around other people, even if the choices themselves don’t involve and are not about others. We know surprisingly little about the role of emotions in this particular kind of...
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