Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making

R Frömer, A Shenhav - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
While often seeming to investigate rather different problems, research into value-based
decision making and cognitive control have historically offered parallel insights into how …

Beyond discrete-choice options

AHH Rasanan, NJ Evans, L Fontanesi… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
While decision theories have evolved over the past five decades, their focus has largely
been on choices among a limited number of discrete options, even though many real-world …

Value-based attention but not divisive normalization influences decisions with multiple alternatives

S Gluth, N Kern, M Kortmann, CL Vitali - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Violations of economic rationality principles in choices between three or more options are
critical for understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms of decision-making. A recent …

Dopamine regulates decision thresholds in human reinforcement learning in males

K Chakroun, A Wiehler, B Wagner, D Mathar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dopamine fundamentally contributes to reinforcement learning, but recent accounts also
suggest a contribution to specific action selection mechanisms and the regulation of …

Linking confidence biases to reinforcement-learning processes.

N Salem-Garcia, S Palminteri, M Lebreton - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
We systematically misjudge our own performance in simple economic tasks. First, we
generally overestimate our ability to make correct choices—a bias called overconfidence …

Cognitive control as a multivariate optimization problem

H Ritz, X Leng, A Shenhav - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
A hallmark of adaptation in humans and other animals is our ability to control how we think
and behave across different settings. Research has characterized the various forms …

Social norms shape visual appearance: Taking a closer look at the link between social norm learning and perceptual decision-making

M Germar, VH Duderstadt, A Mojzisch - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the most fundamental questions in social psychology is whether norms can change
individuals' minds by shaping the visual appearance of stimuli. This question was first raised …

Test–retest reliability of reinforcement learning parameters

JV Schaaf, L Weidinger, L Molleman… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
It has recently been suggested that parameter estimates of computational models can be
used to understand individual differences at the process level. One area of research in …

A new model of decision processing in instrumental learning tasks

S Miletić, RJ Boag, AC Trutti, N Stevenson… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Learning and decision-making are interactive processes, yet cognitive modeling of error-
driven learning and decision-making have largely evolved separately. Recently, evidence …

Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development

K Nussenbaum, RE Martin, S Maulhardt, YJ Yang… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Across the lifespan, individuals frequently choose between exploiting known rewarding
options or exploring unknown alternatives. A large body of work has suggested that children …