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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NEUROSCIENCE Projection Bias ABSTRACT Projection bias is exemplified by the “shopping while hungry” phenomenon, in which people overbuy at the supermarket when they’re hungry, incorrectly anticipating the kinds and amount of food they’ll want...
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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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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 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 Rat Prefrontal Cortex Inactivations during Decision Making Are Explained by Bistable Attractor Dynamics AUTHORS: Alex T. Piet, Jeffrey C. Erlich, Charles D. Kopec, and Carlos D. Brody ABSTRACT Two-node attractor...
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More infoInterrupting counterfactual representations in the lateral frontal pole
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 Goods & Actions, Model-based and Model-free ABSTRACT Two parallel lines of research have begun to identify the neural correlations and mechanisms underlying decision-making and learning. One line has focused on the distinction...
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NEUROSCIENCE Decision Making under Stress: acute stress influences how we learn to trust others ABSTRACT Stress—a ubiquitous part of everyday life—can affect our daily decisions. We explore how acute stress changes choice behavior in a trust...
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