Neurosciences Institute

The perils of omitting omissions when modeling evidence accumulation

Response deadlines are commonly imposed in decision-making research to incentivize speedy decisions and sustained attention. This procedure frequently leads to a proportion of trials in which no response is made, and these omissions are often simply removed from the data during a...

Reward selectively preserves relational structure in memory

Memories tend to form networks that reflect relationships between experiences. These networks, or cognitive graphs, have been used to study how structural features of memory can bias decisions — analogous to how reward shapes choices by prioritizing reward-associated items in mem...