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 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 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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More infoNEUROSCIENCE Interoception and Decision-Making ABSTRACT Studies on the roles of emotion in decision-making have highlighted a powerful role for emotions in influencing choices. The source of the individual differences in emotional responses, and...
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 infoNEUROSCIENCE Urban Attention ABSTRACT The effects of external distractors on reaction time have been extremely well characterized in the lab. In this project, we aim to quantify the impact of distracting urban environments during an everyday...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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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More infoNEUROSCIENCE Foraging, serial decision making and the opportunity cost of time ABSTRACT We have an ongoing series of studies that use a patch-foraging paradigm from ecology in order to investigate how individuals make serial (stop/search)...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Retailer Pricing and Consumer Choice under Price Uncertainty ABSTRACT Based on the implicit assumption that consumers’ average price perceptions guide their retailer choice, previous research examined how different retailer pricing...
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