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View article: Reduced reliance on partner reciprocity drives lower trust in schizophrenia
Reduced reliance on partner reciprocity drives lower trust in schizophrenia Open
Schizophrenia is characterized by significant cognitive and social difficulties, including paranoid ideation and impaired trust in others. Despite consistent evidence of disrupted social interactions in schizophrenia, the neurocognitive me…
View article: From Sampling to Stopping: The P300 ERP component and beta power contribute to reward-related decision commitments
From Sampling to Stopping: The P300 ERP component and beta power contribute to reward-related decision commitments Open
Optimal stopping problems provide a framework for studying decision-making under uncertainty, balancing the trade-off between information sampling and decision commitment. We investigated deviations from normative strategies in human decis…
View article: From Sampling to Stopping: The P300 ERP component and beta power contribute to reward-related decision commitments
From Sampling to Stopping: The P300 ERP component and beta power contribute to reward-related decision commitments Open
Optimal stopping problems provide a framework for studying decision-making under uncertainty, balancing the trade-off between information sampling and decision commitment. We investigated deviations from normative strategies in human decis…
View article: Stochastic decisions support optimal foraging of volatile environments, and are disrupted by anxiety
Stochastic decisions support optimal foraging of volatile environments, and are disrupted by anxiety Open
View article: Biased expectations about future choice options predict sequential economic decisions
Biased expectations about future choice options predict sequential economic decisions Open
View article: Posterior Parietal Cortex Modulates Perceptual Decisions Depending On Psychotic Phenotype
Posterior Parietal Cortex Modulates Perceptual Decisions Depending On Psychotic Phenotype Open
BACKGROUND Reduced data-gathering and altered sensory precision are associated with psychotic phenotypes in tasks engaging the posterior parietal cortex (PPC). We investigated whether PPC excitability - modulated via 1 Hz repetitive transc…
View article: Participants use a mixture of strategies to solve sequential decision problems
Participants use a mixture of strategies to solve sequential decision problems Open
Full-information best choice problems typify many real-world decisions. Participants face a sequence of decision options and must accept or reject each option at the time it is encountered. The challenge is to use prior knowledge of the di…
View article: Signal detection in the psychotic phenotype: Increased sensory precision and reduced decision threshold associated with psychotic-like experiences
Signal detection in the psychotic phenotype: Increased sensory precision and reduced decision threshold associated with psychotic-like experiences Open
BACKGROUND Psychotic-like experiences may reflect disrupted signal detection, whereby individuals detect signals in noisy input that are unlikely to be present. Drawing on predictive coding accounts, we investigated whether increased senso…
View article: Understanding patch foraging strategies across development
Understanding patch foraging strategies across development Open
Patch foraging is a near-ubiquitous behaviour across the animal kingdom and characterises many decision-making domains encountered by humans. We review how a disposition to explore in adolescence may reflect the evolutionary conditions und…
View article: Stochastic Decisions Support Optimal Foraging of Volatile Environments, and are Disrupted by Anxiety
Stochastic Decisions Support Optimal Foraging of Volatile Environments, and are Disrupted by Anxiety Open
When the availability of rewards change unpredictably (i.e., are volatile), exploration may be a critical behaviour for tracking such changes. With the expectation that adolescents (aged 16-17; N=91) would be more adept than adults (24+; N…
View article: Explaining human sampling rates across different decision domains
Explaining human sampling rates across different decision domains Open
Undersampling biases are common in the optimal stopping literature, especially for economic full choice problems. Among these kinds of number-based studies, the moments of the distribution of values that generates the options (i.e., the ge…
View article: Caricatured facial movements enhance perception of emotional facial expressions
Caricatured facial movements enhance perception of emotional facial expressions Open
Although faces “in the wild” constantly undergo complicated movements, humans adeptly perceive facial identity and expression. Previous studies, focusing mainly on identity, used photographic caricature to show that distinctive form increa…
View article: The Paradox of Delusions: Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence?
The Paradox of Delusions: Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence? Open
Delusions are pathological beliefs, often with bizarre content. They feature in neurological disorders and in psychoses associated with psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia). In this chapter we review two apparently opposing ways tha…
View article: Individuals with adverse childhood experiences explore less and underweight reward feedback
Individuals with adverse childhood experiences explore less and underweight reward feedback Open
Significance Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are extreme stressors that have a profound impact on cognitive development. Using an explore/exploit foraging paradigm, we demonstrate that ACEs are associated with reduced exploration, lea…
View article: Methodological Remarks Regarding Optimal Stopping Tasks and the Implications for Sampling Biases
Methodological Remarks Regarding Optimal Stopping Tasks and the Implications for Sampling Biases Open
This paper investigates a type of optimal stopping problem where options are presented in sequence and, once an option has been rejected, it is impossible to go back to it. With previous research finding mixed results of undersampling and …
View article: Individuals with Adverse Childhood Experiences Explore Less and Underweight Reward Feedback
Individuals with Adverse Childhood Experiences Explore Less and Underweight Reward Feedback Open
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are extreme stressors that lead to negative psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. Non-human animals explore less after exposure to early stress. Therefore, in this pre-registered study we hypothesised tha…
View article: Face space representations of movement
Face space representations of movement Open
View article: Looking for Mr(s) Right: Decision bias can prevent us from finding the most attractive face
Looking for Mr(s) Right: Decision bias can prevent us from finding the most attractive face Open
View article: Low-frequency oscillations employ a general coding of the spatio-temporal similarity of dynamic faces
Low-frequency oscillations employ a general coding of the spatio-temporal similarity of dynamic faces Open
View article: Doppelgängers and dissociations: lesion network mapping illuminates misidentification delusions
Doppelgängers and dissociations: lesion network mapping illuminates misidentification delusions Open
View article: Effective Connectivity from Early Visual Cortex to Posterior Occipitotemporal Face Areas Supports Face Selectivity and Predicts Developmental Prosopagnosia
Effective Connectivity from Early Visual Cortex to Posterior Occipitotemporal Face Areas Supports Face Selectivity and Predicts Developmental Prosopagnosia Open
Face processing is mediated by interactions between functional areas in the occipital and temporal lobe, and the fusiform face area (FFA) and anterior temporal lobe play key roles in the recognition of facial identity. Individuals with dev…
View article: Local but not long-range microstructural differences of the ventral temporal cortex in developmental prosopagnosia
Local but not long-range microstructural differences of the ventral temporal cortex in developmental prosopagnosia Open
View article: Sustained Magnetic Responses in Temporal Cortex Reflect Instantaneous Significance of Approaching and Receding Sounds
Sustained Magnetic Responses in Temporal Cortex Reflect Instantaneous Significance of Approaching and Receding Sounds Open
Rising sound intensity often signals an approaching sound source and can serve as a powerful warning cue, eliciting phasic attention, perception biases and emotional responses. How the evaluation of approaching sounds unfolds over time rem…
View article: Jumping to conclusions in schizophrenia
Jumping to conclusions in schizophrenia Open
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder associated with a variety of symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, social withdrawal, and cognitive dysfunction. Impairments on decision-making tasks are routinely reported: evidence points to a …
View article: Structural and effective connectivity reveals potential network-based influences on category-sensitive visual areas
Structural and effective connectivity reveals potential network-based influences on category-sensitive visual areas Open
Visual category perception is thought to depend on brain areas that respond specifically when certain categories are viewed. These category-sensitive areas are often assumed to be "modules" (with some degree of processing autonomy) and to …