Can 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 moreWinter is coming: detecting and exploiting period changes in probability
NEUROSCIENCE Winter is coming: detecting and exploiting period changes in probability ABSTRACT Summer and winter, day and night: periodic change...
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 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...
Read moreThe Measurement of Subjective Value and Its Relation to Contingent Valuation and Environmental Public Goods
NEUROSCIENCE The Measurement of Subjective Value and Its Relation to Contingent Valuation and Environmental Public Goods AUTHORS: ABSTRACT...
Read moreSuboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments
NEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments AUTHORS: LElyse H. Norton, Stephen M...
Read moreProjection Bias
NEUROSCIENCE Projection Bias ABSTRACT Projection bias is exemplified by the “shopping while hungry” phenomenon, in which people overbuy at the...
Read moreWhen Desire is Stronger than Debt Aversion: Enticing Consumers with Interest-Free Deals
NEUROSCIENCE Social and Monetary Reward Learning in Schizophrenia ABSTRACT People with schizophrenia have severe social cognitive impairments...
Read moreEconomic decision-making in Drosophila larvae
NEUROSCIENCE Economic decision-making in Drosophila larvae ABSTRACT The goal of this project is two-fold. First, we use tools from microeconomics...
Read moreA Bayesian model of insight
NEUROSCIENCE A Bayesian model of insight ABSTRACT We are building a computational model of insight. The core of this model permits actions to...
Read moreEnvisioning the Improbable: Judgment and Strategy in Heavy-Tailed Contexts
NEUROSCIENCE Envisioning the Improbable: Judgment and Strategy in Heavy-Tailed Contexts ABSTRACT This multi-method research seeks to increase...
Read moreThe role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning
NEUROSCIENCE The role of the Hippocampus in reinforcement learning ABSTRACT The idea that there are parallel learning and decision-making systems...
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