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...
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NEUROSCIENCE Evidence demonstrating working memory limitations in human decision-making ABSTRACT If you were asked to evaluate the lottery [0.8765...
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...
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NEUROSCIENCE Economic decision-making in Drosophila larvae ABSTRACT The goal of this project is two-fold. First, we use tools from microeconomics...
Read moreMeasuring 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...
Read moreProjection Bias
NEUROSCIENCE Projection Bias ABSTRACT Projection bias is exemplified by the “shopping while hungry” phenomenon, in which people overbuy at the...
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NEUROSCIENCE Insight and addiction ABSTRACT Previous studies have suggested impairments in insight in neuropsychiatric disorders. However it is...
Read moreThe MINY Van Project
NEUROSCIENCE The MINY Van Project ABSTRACT Research on household financial decisions using a newly-constituted Vanguard Research Institute Panel...
Read moreRestoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself
NEUROSCIENCE Restoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself ABSTRACT Classic social psychology and experimental economic...
Read moreUrban Attention
NEUROSCIENCE Urban Attention ABSTRACT The effects of external distractors on reaction time have been extremely well characterized in the lab. In...
Read morePropranolol and Loss Aversion
NEUROSCIENCE Propranolol and Loss Aversion ABSTRACT Previous work has suggested that arousal responses to gain and loss outcomes are related to...
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...
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