Urban Attention
NEUROSCIENCE Urban Attention ABSTRACT The effects of external distractors on reaction time have been extremely well characterized in the lab. In...
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NEUROSCIENCE Genes, Smoking, and Health ABSTRACT Research on the impact of genes on smoking and through smoking on health. We are using the...
Read moreInterrupting counterfactual representations in the lateral frontal pole
NEUROSCIENCE Interrupting counterfactual representations in the lateral frontal pole ABSTRACT I am collaborating with researchers at Oxford...
Read moreComputational Phenotypes of Decision Making in Heroin Addiction
NEUROSCIENCE Computational Phenotypes of Decision Making in Heroin Addiction AUTHORS: Anna B Konova, Silvia Lopez-Guzman, John Rotrosen...
Read moreThe price of success
NEUROSCIENCE The price of success ABSTRACT How much should you pay for a better chance at success? For this project, we approached individuals in...
Read moreSuboptimal decision criteria are predicted by subjectively weighted probabilities and rewards
NEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal decision criteria are predicted by subjectively weighted probabilities and rewards ABSTRACT Subjects performed a visual...
Read moreDynamical analysis of value coding
NEUROSCIENCE Dynamical analysis of value coding ABSTRACT Information coding in the brain is often viewed in terms of equilibrium levels of...
Read moreProjection Bias
NEUROSCIENCE Projection Bias ABSTRACT Projection bias is exemplified by the “shopping while hungry” phenomenon, in which people overbuy at the...
Read moreCostly information sampling
NEUROSCIENCE Costly information sampling ABSTRACT Theories of optimal information sampling assert that the decision to gather information should...
Read moreCan deep brain stimulation reduce preference for cocaine?
NEUROSCIENCE A Drosophila model for studying the neuronal bases of decision-making ABSTRACT I work in the NYU Biology department in Justin Blau’s...
Read moreEstimating the perceptual decisions of others
NEUROSCIENCE Estimating the perceptual decisions of others ABSTRACT An important corollary of a Bayesian model of insight is that this model can...
Read moreInteroception and Decision-Making
NEUROSCIENCE Interoception and Decision-Making ABSTRACT Studies on the roles of emotion in decision-making have highlighted a powerful role for...
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