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Seth Herd, Kai A. Krueger, Ananta Nair, Jessica Mollick + 1 more
'Randall C. O’Reilly'] We present a computational and theoretical model of the neural mechanisms underlying human decision-making. We propose a detailed model of the interaction between brain regions, under a proposer-predictor-actor-critic framework. Task-relevant areas of cortex propose a candidate plan using fast…
Thomas Thiery, Pierre Rainville, Paul Cisek, Karim Jerbi
The brain evolved to govern behavior in a dynamic world, in which pertinent information about choices is often in flux. Thus, the commitment to an action choice must reflect a balance between monitoring that information and the necessity to act before opportunities are lost. Here, we investigate the mechanisms of…
Mrugsen Nagsen Gopnarayan, Jaan Aru, Sebastian Gluth
Over the past decades, cognitive neuroscientists and behavioral economists have recognized the value of describing the process of decision making in detail and modeling the emergence of decisions over time. For example, the time it takes to decide can reveal more about an agent's true hidden preferences than only the…
V. I. Yukalov, Didier Sornette
This chapter, dedicated to the memory of Mino Freund, summarizes the Quantum Decision Theory (QDT) that we have developed in a series of publications since 2008. We formulate a general mathematical scheme of how decisions are taken, using the point of view of psychological and cognitive sciences, without touching…
Sophia Gimple, Maxime Verwoert, Laura Marras, Paul Weger + 7 more
Decision-making is an essential cognitive function. It can be impaired due to a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders as well as external factors such as time pressure or stress. To assist users during decision-making, we propose a decision-making brain computer interface (BCI) that can alert to uninformed…
Koosha Khalvati, Seongmin A. Park, Remi Philippe, Mariateresa Sestito + 2 more
To make decisions in a social context, humans try to predict the behavior of others, an ability that is thought to rely on having a model of other minds. Having such a model, known as a theory of mind, allows one to infer the intentions of others, simulate their beliefs, and predict their possible actions, taking into…
Brenda L. Connors, Richard Rende
There is growing recognition of the essential role of sensorimotor processes as not just a supporter of the cognitive aspects of decision making, but rather as a foundation for all the coordinated physical and mental activities that go into how we make decisions. We illuminate concepts and methods for examining…
Frederic Becker, Julian Skirzyński, Bas van Opheusden, Falk Lieder
Human decision-making is plagued by many systematic errors. Many of these errors can be avoided by providing decision aids that guide decision-makers to attend to the important information and integrate it according to a rational decision strategy. Designing such decision aids used to be a tedious manual process.…
C. Dominik Güss, Bernadette Robinson
DECISIONS AND HOW THEY ARE MADE In the wider sense, decision making is embedded in the problem-solving process and its many stages ([6]; [13]). In the narrow sense, decision making is understood as the ability to select one of several alternatives and to act accordingly ([10]). Previous research has often focused on…
Shintaro Funahashi
Executive function is thought to be the coordinated operation of multiple neural processes and allows to accomplish a current goal flexibly. The most important function of the prefrontal cortex is the executive function. Among a variety of executive functions in which the prefrontal cortex participates, decision-making…
C. Schreiweis, M. Euvrard, E. Burguière, J. Daunizeau
Decisions permeate every aspect of our lives - what to eat, where to live, etc. - but the amount of effort that we put into different decisions varies tremendously. Rather than processing all decision-relevant information, we often rely on fast habitual and/or intuitive decision policies, which can lead to irrational…
Jiayi Luo, Rongjun Yu
The experience of emotion has a powerful influence on daily-life decision making. Following Plato’s description of emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite directions, modern dual-system models of decision making endorse the antagonism between reason and emotion. Decision making is perceived as the…
Manuel G. Bedia, Ezequiel Di Paolo
Dual-process approaches of decision-making examine the interaction between affective/intuitive and deliberative processes underlying value judgment. From this perspective, decisions are supported by a combination of relatively explicit capabilities for abstract reasoning and relatively implicit evolved domain-general…
Emmanuelle Tognoli, Shihong Huang
Software systems now complement an incredibly vast number of human activities, and much effort has been deployed to make them quasi-autonomous with the build-up of increasingly performant self-adaptive capabilities, so that the burden of failure, interruption and functional loss requiring expert intervention is fewer…
Michael Moutoussis, Benjamín Garzón, Sharon Neufeld, Dominik R. Bach + 3 more
Decision-making underpins many important facets of our lives. Here, we assessed if a general ability factor underpins decision-making abilities. Using factor analysis of 32 decision-making measures in 830 adolescents and young adults, we identified a common factor we refer to as ‘decision acuity’ that was distinct from…
Melissa T. Buelow, Sammy Moore, Jennifer M. Kowalsky, Bradley M. Okdie
'Bradley M. Okdie'] Decision-making is an executive function, tapping into cognitive, emotional, and personality-based components. This complexity, and the varying operational definitions of the construct, is reflected in the rich array of behavioral decision-making tasks available for use in research and clinical…
Miguel Barretto García, Marcus Grueschow, Marius Moisa, Rafael Polania + 1 more
Humans and animals can flexibly choose their actions based on different information, ranging from objective states of the environment (e.g., apples are bigger than cherries) to subjective preferences (e.g., cherries are tastier than apples). Whether the brain instantiates these different choices by recruiting either…
Izaak Neri, Simone Pigolotti
A distinct feature of living systems is their capacity to take decisions based on uncertain environmental signals. Examples span from the microscopic scale of cells differentiating based on the concentration of a morphogene, to the macroscopic scale of decisions by animals or human beings. The current paradigm in…
Eduardo Ramos, María Luiza Machado Campos, Fernanda Baião
Risk based in an Ontology of Behavioral Economics Authors: ['Eduardo Ramos' 'María Luiza Machado Campos' 'Fernanda Baião'] Organizational decision-making is crucial for success, yet cognitive biases can significantly affect risk preferences, leading to suboptimal outcomes. Risk seeking preferences for losses, driven by…
Gerd Gigerenzer
Intelligence evolved to cope with situations of uncertainty generated by nature, predators, and the behavior of conspecifics. To this end, humans and other animals acquired special abilities, including heuristics that allow for swift action in face of scarce information. In this article, I introduce the concept of…
Liberty Severs, Qiuran Wang
Decision-making is a central function of adaptive behaviour in biological agents. However, strategies for adaptive decision-making can vary substantially across species. Here, we aim to extend the comparative scope of decision-making analyses to phylogenetically diverse organisms. To do so, we introduce the Continual…
Camilla Kao, Che-I Kao
Recently we proposed that mission statements incorporating the concept of reducing uncertainty could provide a framework for learning the bread and depth of information that exists about health and safety. We briefly explained the definition of uncertainty in the context of health and safety, with the unifying…
Camilla Kao, Russell Furr
Conveying safety information to researchers is challenging. A list of rules and best practices often is not remembered thoroughly even by individuals who want to remember everything. Researchers in science thinking according to principles: mathematical, physical, and chemical laws; biological paradigms. They use…
Camilla Kao, Russell Furr
Conveying safety information to researchers is challenging. A list of rules and best practices often is not remembered thoroughly even by individuals who want to remember everything. Researchers in science thinking according to principles: mathematical, physical, and chemical laws; biological paradigms. They use…
HaDi MaBouDi, James A. R. Marshall, Neville Dearden, Andrew B. Barron
Honey bee ecology demands they make both rapid and accurate assessments of which flowers are most likely to offer them nectar or pollen. To understand the mechanisms of honey bee decision-making we examined their speed and accuracy of both flower acceptance and rejection decisions. We used a controlled flight arena…
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Climate change mitigation is driving growing innovation in bio-materials production technologies, with a focus on improving their environmental sustainability. This study presents a decision-support framework based on a careful integration of technical requirements, implemented in a process digital twin and life cycle…
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Mass spectrometry-based natural products targeted discovery often relies on a complicated decision-making process involving tedious comparison of exact masses data and tandem mass spectra-based annotation tools output against various spectral reference libraries. To address this bottleneck, we present tandem mass…
Chonghuan Zhang, Alexei Lapkin
Computer assisted synthesis planning (CASP) accelerates the development of organic synthesis routes of pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals. CASP tools are generally developed on the rules or data of synthetic chemistry which include some enzymatic reactions. However, synthetic biology offers a new degree of…