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More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
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 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal decision criteria are predicted by subjectively weighted probabilities and rewards ABSTRACT Subjects performed a visual detection task with varied probability of target occurrence and rewards. To maximize monetary gain...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
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 Saving the masses: The impact of perceived efficacy on charitable giving to single vs. multiple beneficiaries AUTHORS: Professor Vicki Morwitz and Professor Eesha Sharma ABSTRACT People are more generous toward...
More infoNew Research from NYU, Princeton and UCL Researchers Published in PLoS Computational Biology February 16, 2017 The decisions we make are only as good as the information we base those decisions off of, but a lot of that information comes to us via...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Risk preferences in New Yorkers’ everyday decisions. Correlation of risk preferences across different decision-making domains. ABSTRACT Most of the important decisions that we make in life are made under conditions of uncertainty...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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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