Search Results - "Shenhav, Amitai"

The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued by Inzlicht, Michael, Shenhav, Amitai, Olivola, Christopher Y.

“…According to prominent models in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and economics, effort (be it physical or mental) is costly: when given a choice, humans…”
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Resolving uncertainty in a social world by FeldmanHall, Oriel, Shenhav, Amitai

“…Consider the range of social behaviours we engage in every day. In each case, there are a multitude of unknowns, reflecting the many sources of uncertainty…”
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Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the value of control by Shenhav, Amitai, Cohen, Jonathan D, Botvinick, Matthew M

“…The authors propose that dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) performs a cost/benefit analysis to specify how best to allocate cognitive control. They…”
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Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience by Collins, Anne G E, Shenhav, Amitai

“…An organism's survival depends on its ability to learn about its environment and to make adaptive decisions in the service of achieving the best possible…”
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The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function by Shenhav, Amitai, Botvinick, Matthew M., Cohen, Jonathan D.

“…The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) has a near-ubiquitous presence in the neuroscience of cognitive control. It has been implicated in a diversity of…”
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Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort by Shenhav, Amitai, Musslick, Sebastian, Lieder, Falk, Kool, Wouter, Griffiths, Thomas L, Cohen, Jonathan D, Botvinick, Matthew M

“…In spite of its familiar phenomenology, the mechanistic basis for mental effort remains poorly understood. Although most researchers agree that mental effort…”
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Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control by Leng, Xiamin, Yee, Debbie, Ritz, Harrison, Shenhav, Amitai

“…To invest effort into any cognitive task, people must be sufficiently motivated. Whereas prior research has focused primarily on how the cognitive control…”
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Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort by Shenhav, Amitai, Prater Fahey, Mahalia, Grahek, Ivan

“…Achieving most goals demands cognitive control, yet people vary widely in their success at meeting these demands. Although motivation is known to be…”
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The Eighty Five Percent Rule for optimal learning by Wilson, Robert C., Shenhav, Amitai, Straccia, Mark, Cohen, Jonathan D.

“…Researchers and educators have long wrestled with the question of how best to teach their clients be they humans, non-human animals or machines. Here, we…”
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Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude by Shenhav, Amitai, Greene, Joshua D.

“…Many important moral decisions, particularly at the policy level, require the evaluation of choices involving outcomes of variable magnitude and probability…”
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Aiming for the Stomach and Hitting the Heart: Dissociable Triggers and Sources for Disgust Reactions by Shenhav, Amitai, Mendes, Wendy Berry

“…Disgust reactions can be elicited using stimuli that engender orogastric rejection (e.g., pus and vomit; core disgust stimuli) but also using images of bloody…”
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Rational metareasoning and the plasticity of cognitive control by Lieder, Falk, Shenhav, Amitai, Musslick, Sebastian, Griffiths, Thomas L

“…The human brain has the impressive capacity to adapt how it processes information to high-level goals. While it is known that these cognitive control skills…”
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Disentangling choice value and choice conflict in sequential decisions under risk by Fontanesi, Laura, Shenhav, Amitai, Gluth, Sebastian

“…Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in understanding the neural and cognitive dynamics that drive sequential decision making in general and…”
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Neural correlates of dueling affective reactions to win—win choices by Shenhav, Amitai, Buckner, Randy L.

“…Win—win choices cause anxiety, often more so than decisions lacking the opportunity for a highly desired outcome. These anxious feelings can paradoxically…”
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Dissociable components of the reward circuit are involved in appraisal versus choice by Shenhav, Amitai, Karmarkar, Uma R.

“…People can evaluate a set of options as a whole, or they can approach those same options with the purpose of making a choice between them. A common network has…”
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Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making by Frömer, Romy, Dean Wolf, Carolyn K., Shenhav, Amitai

“…When choosing between options, whether menu items or career paths, we can evaluate how rewarding each one will be, or how congruent it is with our current…”
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Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action by Shenhav, Amitai, Straccia, Mark A., Musslick, Sebastian, Cohen, Jonathan D., Botvinick, Matthew M.

“…Decision-making is typically studied as a sequential process from the selection of what to attend (e.g., between possible tasks, stimuli, or stimulus…”
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Rats exhibit similar biases in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks by Kane, Gary A, Bornstein, Aaron M, Shenhav, Amitai, Wilson, Robert C, Daw, Nathaniel D, Cohen, Jonathan D

“…Animals, including humans, consistently exhibit myopia in two different contexts: foraging, in which they harvest locally beyond what is predicted by optimal…”
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Temporal discounting correlates with directed exploration but not with random exploration by Sadeghiyeh, Hashem, Wang, Siyu, Alberhasky, Maxwell R., Kyllo, Hannah M., Shenhav, Amitai, Wilson, Robert C.

“…The explore-exploit dilemma describes the trade off that occurs any time we must choose between exploring unknown options and exploiting options we know well…”
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Dorsal anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortex have inverse roles in both foraging and economic choice by Shenhav, Amitai, Straccia, Mark A., Botvinick, Matthew M., Cohen, Jonathan D.

“…Recent research has highlighted a distinction between sequential foraging choices and traditional economic choices between simultaneously presented options…”
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