A5073738344- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Forecasting Techniques and Applications
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Stock Market Forecasting Methods
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
University of Oregon
2011-2024
Pomona College
2017-2018
California Institute of Technology
2011-2014
Duke University
2005-2014
University of Lisbon
2010
University of California, San Diego
2008
University of Minnesota
2008
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays a critical role in processing appetitive stimuli. Recent investigations have shown that reward value signals the vmPFC can be altered by emotion regulation processes; however, to what extent of positive relies on neural regions implicated is unclear. Here, we investigated effects valuation emotionally evocative images. Two independent experimental samples human participants performed cognitive reappraisal task while undergoing fMRI. experience...
The study of stroke patients with modern lesion-symptom analysis techniques has yielded valuable insights into the representation spatial attention in human brain. Here we introduce an approach—multivariate pattern analysis—that no longer assumes independent contributions brain regions but rather quantifies joint contribution multiple determining behavior. In a large sample patients, found patterns damage more predictive neglect than best-performing single voxel. addition, modeling...
According to many studies, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) encodes subjective value of disparate rewards on a common scale. Yet, host other reward factors-likely represented outside VMPFC-must be integrated construct such signals for valuation. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we tested whether interactions between posterior VMPFC and functionally connected brain regions predict value. During fMRI scanning, participants rated attractiveness unfamiliar faces. We...
Moral behavior is susceptible to peer influence. How does information from peers influence moral preferences? We used drift-diffusion modeling show that changes the value of by prioritizing choice attributes align with peers' goals. Study 1 (N = 100; preregistered) showed participants accurately inferred goals prosocial and antisocial when observing their decisions. In 2 68), made decisions before after a or peer. Peer observation caused participants' own preferences resemble those peers....
Activation in frontopolar cortex (FPC; BA 10) has been associated both with attending to mental states and integrating multiple relations. However, few previous studies have manipulated of these cognitive processes, precluding a clear functional distinction among regions within FPC. To address this issue, we developed an fMRI task that combined mentalizing relational integration processes. Participants saw blocks single words performed one three judgments: how pleasant or unpleasant they...
To dissociate a choice from its antecedent neural states, motivation associated with the expected outcome must be captured in absence of choice. Yet, mechanisms that mediate behavioral idiosyncrasies motivation, particularly regard to complex economic preferences, are rarely examined situations without overt decisions. We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) large sample participants while they anticipated earning rewards two different modalities: monetary and candy rewards....
How do we make choices for others with different preferences from our own? Although neuroimaging studies implicate similar circuits in representing oneself and others, some models propose that additional corrective mechanisms come online when diverge one9s own preferences. Here used event-related potentials (ERPs) humans, combination computational modeling, to examine how social information is integrated the time leading up others. Hungry male female participants unrestricted diets selected...
In the classic gain/loss framing effect, describing a gamble as potential gain or loss biases people to make risk-averse risk-seeking decisions, respectively. The canonical explanation for this effect is that frames differentially modulate emotional processes, which in turn leads irrational choice behavior. Here, we evaluate source of by integrating functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 143 human participants performing task with meta-analytic >8000 neuroimaging studies. We...
Evidence that neuroscience improves our understanding of economic phenomena [1–4] comes from a broad array novel experimental findings, including demonstrations brain regions guide responses to fair [5,6] and unfair [7] social interactions, resolve uncertainty during decision making [8], track loss aversion [9] subjective value [10], encode willingness pay [11,12] reward error signals [13,14]. Yet, neuroeconomics has been characterized as faddish juxtaposition, not an integration, disparate...
Abstract Recent decades have witnessed a burst of neuroscience research investigating mental and physiological processes central to consumer behavior, including sensory perception, memory, decision making. Nonetheless, few publications that include neural measures, or develop conceptual frameworks around principles, been published in psychology. It is clear “consumer neuroscience” has thus far not lived up its promises the marketing literature. We suggest three main reasons for this. First,...
Defined as increased sensitivity to losses, loss aversion is often conceptualized a cognitive bias. However, findings that has an attentional or emotional regulation component suggest it may instead reflect differences in information processing. To distinguish these alternatives, we applied the drift-diffusion model (DDM) choice and response time (RT) data card gambling task with unknown risk distributions. Loss was measured separately for each participant. Dividing participants into...
Social relationships change across the lifespan as social networks narrow and motivational priorities shift. These changes may affect, or reflect, differences in how older adults make decisions related to processing non-social rewards. While we have shown initial evidence that a blunted response some features of reward, further work larger samples is needed replicate our results probe extent which age-related translate real world consequences, such financial exploitation. To address this...
Economics is increasingly using process data to make novel inferences about preferences and predictions of choices. The measurement response time (RT), the amount it takes a decision, offers cost-effective direct way study choice process. Yet, relatively little theory exists guide integration RT into economic analysis. This article presents canonical model from psychology neuroscience, Drift-Diffusion Model (DDM), shows that many phenomena in economics literature are consistent with DDM....
Consumer research has explored several dimensions of maladaptive decision-making, including compulsive consumption and behavioral addiction. Here we propose extending this work by integrating knowledge approaches from proximal disciplines. First, consider the neural mechanisms responsible for a range reward-based decision-making. Neuroscientific studies have defined generalizable models how behaviors may transition goal-directed choices toward habits in ways that facilitate choices. Second,...
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