NEUROSCIENCE Information sampling behavior with explicit sampling costs AUTHORS: Laurence Maloney,Todd M. Gureckis, and Mordechai Juni. ABSTRACT The decision to gather information should take into account both the value of information...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Dynamic estimation of task-relevant variance in movement under risk AUTHORS: Michael Landy, Julia Trommershäuser, Nathaniel Daw ABSTRACT Humans take into account their own movement variability as well as potential consequences...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Thinking Like A Trader ABSTRACT We know surprisingly little about the role of emotions in decision-making, and nearly nothing about how we can change those emotions, and thereby our choices. In a series of studies, we asked...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE The Measurement of Subjective Value and Its Relation to Contingent Valuation and Environmental Public Goods AUTHORS: ABSTRACT Environmental public goods—including national parks, clean air/water, and ecosystem services—provide...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Economic decision-making in Drosophila larvae ABSTRACT The goal of this project is two-fold. First, we use tools from microeconomics to characterize the choices of wild type Drosophila larvae as they tradeoff goods (dark and food) in...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Restoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself ABSTRACT Classic social psychology and experimental economic studies argue that punishment is the ubiquitous response to violations of fairness norms. We...
More info