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NEUROSCIENCE Neuroanatomy accounts for age-related changes in risk preferences AUTHORS:  Paul Glimcher, Michael A. Grubb, Agnieszka Tymula, Sharon Gilaie-Dotanand Ifat Levy ABSTRACT Many decisions involve uncertainty, or...

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...

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...

NEUROSCIENCE 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...

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...