NEUROSCIENCE Measuring people’s internal model of motor error distribution ABSTRACT A good decision maker in perception and action (e.g. a good surgeon, a good basketball player) needs to compensate for the irreducible errors in her own movement...
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NEUROSCIENCE Computational Phenotypes of Decision Making in Heroin Addiction AUTHORS: Anna B Konova, Silvia Lopez-Guzman, John Rotrosen, Stephen Ross and Paul W Glimcher. ABSTRACT Decision-making is strongly affected by drugs of abuse. 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 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...
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NEUROSCIENCE The MINY Van Project ABSTRACT Research on household financial decisions using a newly-constituted Vanguard Research Institute Panel. The project models and measures wealth accumulation, asset holding, health, long term care, and...
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NEUROSCIENCE 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...
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NEUROSCIENCE Propranolol and Loss Aversion ABSTRACT Previous work has suggested that arousal responses to gain and loss outcomes are related to loss aversion in participants’ choices. Though these previous data are correlational, they suggest a...
More infoRestoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself
NEUROSCIENCE 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...
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Estimating the perceptual decisions of others
NEUROSCIENCE Estimating the perceptual decisions of others ABSTRACT An important corollary of a Bayesian model of insight is that this model can be applied to estimate confidence in others’ decisions, assigning a degree of responsibility to other...
More infoThe bounded log-odds model of frequency and probability distortion
NEUROSCIENCE The bounded log-odds model of frequency and probability distortion ABSTRACT People systematically distort probability and frequency information in decision-making and in many other perceptual, motor and cognitive tasks. We show that...
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