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42The physics of optimal decision making: A formal analysis of models of performance in two-alternative forced-choice tasksPsychological Review 113 (4): 700-765. 2006.
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1Color relationalism and color phenomenologyIn Bence Nanay (ed.), Perceiving the world, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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27The temporal dynamics of opportunity costs: A normative account of cognitive fatigue and boredomPsychological Review 129 (3): 564-585. 2022.
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Epiphenomenalism and the notion of causationIn Martina Fürst, Wolfgang Gombocz & Christian Hiebaum (eds.), Gehirne Und Personen, Ontos. 2009.
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41The Neural Basis of Error Detection: Conflict Monitoring and the Error-Related NegativityPsychological Review 111 (4): 931-959. 2004.
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28Neural mechanism for the magical number 4: Competitive interactions and nonlinear oscillationBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1): 151-152. 2001.The aim of our commentary is to strengthen Cowan's proposal for an inherent capacity limitation in STM by suggesting a neurobiological mechanism based on competitive networks and nonlinear oscillations that avoids some of the shortcomings of the scheme discussed in the target article (Lisman & Idiart 1995).
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91Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-makingTrends in Cognitive Sciences 10 (3): 108-116. 2006.
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17Amplified selectivity in cognitive processing implements the neural gain model of norepinephrine functionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 39. 2016.
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13A PDP approach to set size effects within the Stroop task: Reply to Kanne, Balota, Spieler, and Faust (1998)Psychological Review 105 (1): 188-194. 1998.
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18Human inference in changing environments with temporal structurePsychological Review 128 (5): 879-912. 2021.
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17Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine Learning Analysis of Large‐Scale Text CorporaCognitive Science 46 (2). 2022.Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 2, February 2022.
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17Context Matters: Recovering Human Semantic Structure from Machine Learning Analysis of Large‐Scale Text CorporaCognitive Science 46 (2). 2022.Applying machine learning algorithms to automatically infer relationships between concepts from large-scale collections of documents presents a unique opportunity to investigate at scale how human semantic knowledge is organized, how people use it to make fundamental judgments (“How similar are cats and bears?”), and how these judgments depend on the features that describe concepts (e.g., size, furriness). However, efforts to date have exhibited a substantial discrepancy between algorithm predic…Read more
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21On the presuppositional behavior of coherence-driven pragmatic enrichmentsSemantics and Linguistic Theory 26 961-979. 2016.When interpreting a sentence such as Every time the company fires an employee who comes in late, a union complaint is lodged, an addressee is likely to infer that the union will only complain when an employee is fired because he came in late. One is thus led to ask why a purely pragmatic enrichment of this sort -- one drawn despite no risk of interpretative failure nor other linguistic mandate -- would intrude upon truth conditions. We argue that this effect results from the interaction among th…Read more
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64An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex FunctionAnnual Review of Neuroscience 24 (1): 167-202. 2001.The prefrontal cortex has long been suspected to play an important role in cognitive control, in the ability to orchestrate thought and action in accordance with internal goals. Its neural basis, however, has remained a mystery. Here, we propose that cognitive control stems from the active maintenance of patterns of activity in the prefrontal cortex that represent goals and the means to achieve them. They provide bias signals to other brain structures whose net effect is to guide the flow of act…Read more
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On the neural implementation of optimal decisionsIn Ezequiel Morsella, John A. Bargh & Peter M. Gollwitzer (eds.), Oxford handbook of human action, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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44Optimality and Some of Its Discontents: Successes and Shortcomings of Existing Models for Binary DecisionsTopics in Cognitive Science 6 (2): 258-278. 2014.We review how leaky competing accumulators (LCAs) can be used to model decision making in two‐alternative, forced‐choice tasks, and we show how they reduce to drift diffusion (DD) processes in special cases. As continuum limits of the sequential probability ratio test, DD processes are optimal in producing decisions of specified accuracy in the shortest possible time. Furthermore, the DD model can be used to derive a speed–accuracy trade‐off that optimizes reward rate for a restricted class of t…Read more
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476Pushing moral buttons: The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgmentCognition 111 (3): 364-371. 2009.In some cases people judge it morally acceptable to sacrifice one person’s life in order to save several other lives, while in other similar cases they make the opposite judgment. Researchers have identified two general factors that may explain this phenomenon at the stimulus level: (1) the agent’s intention (i.e. whether the harmful event is intended as a means or merely foreseen as a side-effect) and (2) whether the agent harms the victim in a manner that is relatively “direct” or “personal”. …Read more
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137Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgmentCognition 107 (3): 1144-1154. 2008.Traditional theories of moral development emphasize the role of controlled cognition in mature moral judgment, while a more recent trend emphasizes intuitive and emotional processes. Here we test a dual-process theory synthesizing these perspectives. More specifically, our theory associates utilitarian moral judgment (approving of harmful actions that maximize good consequences) with controlled cognitive processes and associates non-utilitarian moral judgment with automatic emotional responses. …Read more
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10Frontal eye fields: Inhibition through competitionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (3): 578-578. 1993.
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1Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and explorationIn Jon Driver, Patrick Haggard & Tim Shallice (eds.), Mental Processes in the Human Brain, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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144Scientific Approaches to Consciousness (edited book)Lawrence Erlbaum. 1997.This volume takes the first step toward building the necessary local bridges.
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40On the control of automatic processes: A parallel distributed processing account of the Stroop effectPsychological Review 97 (3): 332-361. 1990.
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7A Commentary on Kinsbourne and HobsonIn Jonathan D. Cohen & Jonathan W. Schooler (eds.), Scientific Approaches to Consciousness, Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 25--397. 1997.
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49Context, cortex, and dopamine: A connectionist approach to behavior and biology in schizophreniaPsychological Review 99 (1): 45-77. 1992.
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427Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an updateTrends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (12): 539-546. 2004.One hypothesis concerning the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is that it functions, in part, to signal the occurrence of conflicts in information processing, thereby triggering compensatory adjustments in cognitive control. Since this idea was first proposed, a great deal of relevant empirical evidence has accrued. This evidence has largely corroborated the conflict-monitoring hypothesis, and some very recent work has provided striking new support for the theory. At the same time, o…Read more
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21Anterior cingulate cortex and the expected value of controlFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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