A5070008792- Mental Health Research Topics
- Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Traffic control and management
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Stochastic processes and financial applications
- Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Belt Conveyor Systems Engineering
Austrian Institute of Technology
2018-2024
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
2015-2016
University College London
2013-2016
Social norms and their enforcement are fundamental to human societies. The ability detect deviations from adapt in a changing environment is therefore important individuals' normal social functioning. Previous neuroimaging studies have highlighted the involvement of insular ventromedial prefrontal (vmPFC) cortices representing norms. However, necessity dissociability remain unclear. Using model-based computational modeling neuropsychological lesion approaches, we examined contributions...
Emotions have been shown to exert influences on decision making during economic exchanges. Here we investigate the underlying neural mechanisms of a training regimen which is hypothesized promote emotional awareness, specifically mindfulness (MT). We test hypothesis that MT increases cooperative using fMRI in randomized longitudinal design involving 8weeks either or active control (CT). find results an increased willingness cooperate indexed by higher acceptance rates unfair monetary offers...
Reciprocating interactions represent a central feature of all human exchanges. They have been the target various recent experiments, with healthy participants and psychiatric populations engaging as dyads in multi-round exchanges such repeated trust task. Behaviour involves complexities related to each agent's preference for equity their partner, beliefs about partner's appetite equity, model so on. Agents may also plan different numbers steps into future. Providing computationally precise...
Cooperation and competition between human players in repeated microeconomic games offer a powerful window onto social phenomena such as the establishment, breakdown repair of trust. This offers prospect particular insight into populations subjects suffering from socially-debilitating conditions borderline personality disorder. However, although suitable foundation for quantitative analysis exists, namely Interactive Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (I-POMDP), computational...
The controllability of our social environment has a profound impact on behavior and mental health. Nevertheless, neurocomputational mechanisms underlying remain elusive. Here, 48 participants performed task where their current choices either did (Controllable), or not (Uncontrollable), influence partners’ future proposals. Computational modeling revealed that people engaged model forward thinking (FT; i.e., calculating the downstream effects actions) to estimate in both Controllable...
Early childhood educational investment produces positive effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills, health, socio-economic success. However, the of such interventions social decision-making later in life are unknown. We recalled participants from one oldest randomized controlled studies early investment-the Abecedarian Project (ABC)-to participate well-validated interactive economic games that probe norm enforcement planning. show a repeated-play ultimatum game, ABC who received...
Functional connectivity has garnered interest as a potential biomarker of psychiatric disorders including borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, small sample sizes and lack within-study replications have led to divergent findings with no clear spatial foci. Evaluate discriminative performance generalizability functional markers for BPD. Whole-brain fMRI resting state in matched subsamples 116 BPD 72 control individuals defined by three grouping strategies. We predicted status using...
A longstanding proposal in developmental research is that childhood family experiences provide a template shapes capacity for trust-based social relationships. We leveraged longitudinal data from cohort of healthy adolescents (n = 570, aged 14-25), which included decision-making and psychometric data, to characterise normative trajectories trust behaviour inter-individual differences therein. Extending on previous cross-sectional findings the same cohort, we show task-based measure increases...
Investing in strangers a socio-economic exchange is risky, as we may be uncertain whether they will reciprocate. Nevertheless, the potential rewards for cooperating can great. Here, used cross sectional sample (n = 784) to study how challenges of cooperation versus defection are negotiated across an important period lifespan: from adolescence young adulthood (ages 14 25). We quantified social behaviour using multi round investor-trustee task, phenotyping individuals validated model whose...
Summary Social control, the ability to exert influence over others, is critical in interpersonal interactions yet uninvestigated. Here, we used functional neuroimaging and a social exchange paradigm which people’s current choices either did, or did not, their partners’ proposals future. Computational modeling revealed that participants forward thinking calculated downstream effects of actions regardless controllability environment. Furthermore, greater levels estimated control correlated...
When discussing the implementation of automated driving systems, multiple factors need to be considered. Yet, a major factor is technical reliability which strongly depends on consistent functionality systems under varying road infrastructure. Most research (Galileo4Mobility (2018); ADAS&ME (2020); AUTOMATE (2020)) focuses challenges and does not investigate if what extent physical infrastructure (PI) contributes safe driving. This paper presents results EU project SHOW concerning PI's role...
• Clustering and a separation approach allow for definition of risk spot like dynamics. Overlay multiple individual estimates provides stable mapping selected tracks. Estimates potential spots can be derived even on tracks that were not part the initial model fit. Making motorcycle rides safer by advanced technology is an ongoing challenge in context developing driving assistant systems safety infrastructure. Determining which section road behaviour “safe” or “unsafe” rarely possible due to...
Social control, the ability to exert influence over others, is critical in interpersonal interactions yet uninvestigated. Here, we used functional neuroimaging and a social exchange paradigm which people’s current choices either did, or did not, their partners’ proposals future. Computational modeling revealed that participants forward thinking calculated downstream effects of actions regardless controllability environment. Furthermore, greater levels estimated control correlated with better...
Investing in strangers a socio-economic exchange is risky, as we may be uncertain whether they will reciprocate. Nevertheless, the potential rewards for cooperating can great. Here, used cross sectional sample (n = 784) to study how challenges of cooperation versus defection are negotiated across an important period lifespan: through adolescence young adulthood (ages 14 25). We quantified social behaviour using multi round investor-trustee task, phenotyping individuals thoroughly validated...
Automated vehicles (AVs) promise new opportunities for urban transport and potential benefits to road safety, efficiency, travel comfort emission levels. However, substantial technical hurdles need be overcome before AVs can operate regularly on streets highways. Besides considerable infrastructure adaptations, one way enable the operation of are digital dynamic maps (DDM or DD-map), which combine a high-definition map physical scape with data obtained from sources. Here we present results...
This paper provides a discrete time LIBOR analog, which can be used for arbitrage-free discretization of Levy models or approximation continuous market models. Using the work Eberlein and Oezkan as an inspiration, we build forward model by starting with exponential martingale. We take this pure jump process calculate appropriate measure change between measures. Next prove weak convergence analog to model, provided driving converges weakly one processes are PII's. especially implies if...