NEUROSCIENCE The effects of stress on aversive and appetitive conditioning and reversal ABSTRACT In this line of studies, we are examining how acute stress influences the way in which participants learn to assign aversive or appetitive value to...
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NEUROSCIENCE 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...
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NEUROSCIENCE Costly information sampling ABSTRACT Theories of optimal information sampling assert that the decision to gather information should take into account accrual costs: time, energy, and money. This project explored how effectively...
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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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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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NEUROSCIENCE Emotion and decision making under uncertainty ABSTRACT Different forms and degrees of uncertainty, such as risk (known probabilities) and ambiguity (unknown probabilities), create quantitatively different signals about choice...
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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 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...
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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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