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NEUROSCIENCE A Bayesian model of insight ABSTRACT We are building a computational model of insight. The core of this model permits actions to dissociate from intentions. Our model provides a Bayesian “definition” of insight as the probability...
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Dr. Kenway Louie is a guest on WPR’s Joy Cardin Show Dr. Kenway Louie, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Neural Science at NYU’s Center for Neural Science (CNS), was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio (an NPR affiliate) on the Joy Cardin...
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NEUROSCIENCE Thinking About Thinking and Its Cognitive Limits AUTHORS: Adam Brandenburger and Xiaomin Li ABSTRACT Evidence shows that when engaged in game-playing tasks, individuals think about what other individuals are thinking. Presumably...
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NEUROSCIENCE Neuroeconomic Models for Choice Behaviour ABSTRACT My research explores models of economic choice behaviour that gain insight from the neural processes underlying decision. I attempt to draw connections between modelling at the level...
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Three Exciting Papers Published by ISDM Prof. Jay van Bavel May 10, 2017 Congratulations to Professor Jay van Bavel, who collaborated in three papers that have recently been published. For the paper, Decoding “us” and “them”: Neural...
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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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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 Neural dynamics of decision confidence ABSTRACT Previous studies in non-human primates have revealed neural activity in the parietal and prefrontal cortex that correlates with the animal’s confidence after a decision has been made...
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NEUROSCIENCE 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...
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