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 outcomes in that …

While often seeming to investigate rather different problems, research into value-based
decision making and cognitive control have historically offered parallel insights into how …

Making good decisions requires thinking ahead, but the huge number of actions and
outcomes one could consider makes exhaustive planning infeasible for computationally …

When choosing between options, such as food items presented in plain view, people tend to
choose the option they spend longer looking at. The prevailing interpretation is that visual …

When making decisions, how people allocate their attention influences their choices. One
empirical finding is that people are more likely to choose the option that they have looked at …

Simple choices (eg, eating an apple vs. an orange) are made by integrating noisy evidence
that is sampled over time and influenced by visual attention; as a result, fluctuations in visual …

Contextual features influence human and non-human decision making, giving rise to
preference reversals. Decades of research have documented the species and situations in …

No one likes to be wrong. Previous research has shown that participants may underweight
information incompatible with previous choices, a phenomenon called confirmation bias. In …

Effective decision-making involves multiple steps to reduce a nearly limitless set of available
choices to a final selection. The attention system plays a critical early role in this process by …

Why do we sometimes opt for actions or items that we do not value the most? Under current
neurocomputational theories, such preference reversals are typically interpreted in terms of …