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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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Choice-theoretic foundations of the divisive normalization model AUTHORS: Kai Steverson, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher ABSTRACT In “Choice-theoretic foundations of the divisive normalization model” (just published in...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Social Contagion ABSTRACT Decisions are often made around other people, even if the choices themselves don’t involve and are not about others. We know surprisingly little about the role of emotions in this particular kind of...
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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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Urban Attention ABSTRACT The effects of external distractors on reaction time have been extremely well characterized in the lab. In this project, we aim to quantify the impact of distracting urban environments during an everyday...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE Criterion learning for perceptual decisions under uncertainty ABSTRACT Signal detection theory posits that observers set a fixed criterion in making a forced-choice decision based on noisy sensory information. How is that criterion...
More infoNEUROSCIENCE 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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