Call for Posters from the Brain Imaging Center at the Icahn School of Medicine The Brain Imaging Center (BIC) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be hosting its 3rd Annual Symposium on Wednesday, October 19th and release...
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NEUROSCIENCE Role of non-monetary incentives in decision making ABSTRACT People show age-related changes in decision-making. Therefore, we want to investigate the correlation between the brain structures and the generalized axiom of revealed...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE The price of success ABSTRACT How much should you pay for a better chance at success? For this project, we approached individuals in a city park and had them play a novel lottery using a small set of black and white marbles in an...
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NEUROSCIENCE Information sampling behavior with explicit sampling costs AUTHORS: Laurence Maloney,Todd M. Gureckis, and Mordechai Juni. ABSTRACT The decision to gather information should take into account both the value of information...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Learning the probability of success in a simple motor task from sequences of success and failure ABSTRACT Successful decision making depends on accurate knowledge of probabilities of outcomes: should I really try to climb that sheer...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Foraging, serial decision making and the opportunity cost of time ABSTRACT We have an ongoing series of studies that use a patch-foraging paradigm from ecology in order to investigate how individuals make serial (stop/search)...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments AUTHORS: LElyse H. Norton, Stephen M. Fleming, Nathaniel D. Daw, and Michael S. Landy ABSTRACT Humans often make decisions based on uncertain...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Neural bases of self-control and adaptive behavior ABSTRACT Influential research suggests that exercising self-control depletes a limited cognitive resource, of unclear identity. But a slack in performance needs not invoke resource...
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