NEUROSCIENCE Pupil dilation contributes to insight in decision-making ABSTRACT Insight in decision-making refers to the accurate appraisal of one’s skills and capabilities. In this study we found that participants who had better insight...
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NEUROSCIENCE 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)...
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The HUMAN Project at the 39th MCC Annual 3rd Avenue Community Benefit Festival The HUMAN Project team held a booth on Sunday, September 11th from 10AM to 6PM at the 39th MCC Annual Third Avenue Community Benefit Festival. The festival ran...
More infoMeasuring people’s internal model of motor error distribution
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 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...
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NEUROSCIENCE Winter is coming: detecting and exploiting period changes in probability ABSTRACT Summer and winter, day and night: periodic change is abundant in the natural environment. We examine whether people can detect and exploit period...
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NEUROSCIENCE 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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Three Exciting Papers Published by ISDM Prof. Jay van Bavel May 10, 2017 Congratulations to Professor Jay van Bavel, who collaborated in three papers that have recently been published. For the paper, Decoding “us” and “them”: Neural...
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