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Foraging, serial decision making and the opportunity cost of time

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1425

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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Researchers Uncover the Neurobiological Basis For Risk Aversion as We Age

June 6, 2019 by isdm 2329

Researchers Uncover the Neurobiological Basis For Risk Aversion as We Age December 13, 2016 New research out of NYU’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making (NYU IISDM) shows how age itself is not the determining factor in...

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Envisioning the Improbable: Judgment and Strategy in Heavy-Tailed Contexts

June 6, 2019 by isdm 12607

NEUROSCIENCE Envisioning the Improbable: Judgment and Strategy in Heavy-Tailed Contexts ABSTRACT This multi-method research seeks to increase understanding of the judgment, behavior, and performance of individuals and organizations in...

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Entertainment

January 12, 2016 by isdm 3592
Entertainment

Discover the natural beauty & resorces of City’s outdoors

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Dynamic estimation of task-relevant variance in movement under risk

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1370

NEUROSCIENCE Dynamic estimation of task-relevant variance in movement under risk AUTHORS:  Michael Landy, Julia Trommershäuser, Nathaniel Daw ABSTRACT Humans take into account their own movement variability as well as potential consequences...

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Adventures

January 12, 2016 by isdm 2895
Adventures

Explore the adventures awaiting for you in the City’s Parks

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Modeling and Measuring Costs of Learning

June 25, 2019 by isdm 1340

NEUROSCIENCE Modeling and Measuring Costs of Learning ABSTRACT Theoretical and experimental research is ongoing on models of imperfect perception and how it is impacted by the incentive to learn. The project provides new characterizations of the...

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The role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1769

NEUROSCIENCE The role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning ABSTRACT The idea that there are parallel learning and decision-making systems in the brain is ubiquitous in neuroscience, where a division is often made between systems that...

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Rational Imprecision: Information Processing, Neural, and Choice-Rule Perspectives

June 6, 2019 by isdm 1280

NEUROSCIENCE Rational Imprecision: Information Processing, Neural, and Choice-Rule Perspectives AUTHORS:  Kai Steverson, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher  ABSTRACT People make mistakes. A rationally imprecise decision...

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Can deep brain stimulation reduce preference for cocaine?

June 22, 2019 by isdm 1281

NEUROSCIENCE A Drosophila model for studying the neuronal bases of decision-making ABSTRACT I work in the NYU Biology department in Justin Blau’s team, developing a model for decision-making in the fruitfly Drosophila. I have designed a novel...

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Dr. Kenway Louie is a guest on WPR’s Joy Cardin Show

June 6, 2019 by isdm 3241
Dr. Kenway Louie is a guest on WPR’s Joy Cardin Show

Dr. Kenway Louie is a guest on WPR’s Joy Cardin Show Dr. Kenway Louie, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Neural Science at NYU’s Center for Neural Science (CNS), was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio (an NPR affiliate) on the Joy Cardin...

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