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Context and Value Encoding in the Orbitofrontal Cortex: Investigating the Representational Geometry of the OFC

Description:
Growing bodies of research emphasize the importance of representing both context and expected value (EV) in support of flexible behavior. Both representations have been pinned …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Jones, Henry (creator)
Badre, David (thesis advisor)
Festa, Elena (reader)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Decision-Related Feedback Influences the Structure of Correlated Variability in Visual Cortex

Description:
Sensory neurons exhibit unpredictable spiking responses to fixed sensory input. Some of this response variability is correlated between neuronal pairs. This correlated variability (spike-count correlation; …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Bondy, Adrian G (creator)
Cumming, Bruce (Director)
Wurtz, Robert (Reader)
Sheinberg, David (Reader)
Shadlen, Michael (Reader)
Brown University. Neuroscience (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
neural coding
neural decoding
neural encoding
Choice Probability
differential correlations
V1
noise correlations
psychophysical reverse correlation
macaque psychophysics
Decision making
Visual cortex
Collection:
Neuroscience
Theses and Dissertations
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Egocentrism and perspective taking in dilemmas of trust

Description:
In a dilemma of trust, decision making involves two competing concerns: the egocentric evaluation of potential outcomes and understanding the other party’s point of view. …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Evans, Anthony M (creator)
Krueger, Joachim (Director)
Wright, Jack (Reader)
Dal Bo, Pedro (Reader)
Brown University. Psychology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
behavioral economics
trust and reciprocity
Economics--Psychological aspects
Decision making
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Psychology
Theses and Dissertations
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Ethical Reflexivity as a Practice of International Politics

Description:
This dissertation inquires into discourses of ethics among the actors of international politics, and seeks to build an ethical practice that recognizes the interpretive powers …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Amoureux, Jacque L (creator)
Biersteker, Thomas (Director)
Der Derian, James (Director)
Krause, Sharon (Reader)
Onuf, Nicholas (Reader)
Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
reflexivity
reflection
critical rationality
ethical relations
global governance
agency
ethical agency
structure
Foucault
Giddens
international ethics
international organizations
foreign policy
decision-making
Critical theory
International relations
Decision making
United Nations
International Committee of the Red Cross
Giddens, Anthony
Aristotle
United States
Collection:
Political Science
Theses and Dissertations
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Knowing When to Leave Someone Isn’t Easy: Social Foraging with Partners of Varying Cooperation Levels

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Abstract of Knowing When to Leave Someone Isn’t Easy: Social Foraging with Partners of Varying Cooperation Levels, by William Lee, Degree ScM., Brown University, October …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Lee, William Montgomery (creator)
FeldmanHall, Oriel (Advisor)
Festa, Elena (Reader)
Krueger, Joachim (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Foraging (Psychology)
Social Traits
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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Maternal Body Mass Index and Cesarean Delivery: Addressing "Too Much Too Soon" in the Context of Obesity

Description:
Background: Obesity in pregnancy increases obstetric risk. Cesarean delivery (CD) can provide maternal-fetal benefit when medically indicated, but unnecessary use of CD is detrimental for …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Glazer, Kimberly B (creator)
Savitz, David (Advisor)
Field, Alison (Reader)
Werner, Erika (Reader)
Dahabreh, Issa (Reader)
Danilack, Valery (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Epidemiology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Epidemiology
Obesity
Decision making
Labor, Induced (Obstetrics)
Cesarean section
Cesarean section--Prevention
Cesarean section--Complications
Delivery (Obstetrics)
Obstetrics
Labor (Obstetrics)--Complications
Collection:
Public Health
Epidemiology
Theses and Dissertations
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Motivated Reasoning in a Community of Knowledge

Description:
Though we all have access to a world of knowledge in the palms of our hands, people today are becoming increasingly unlikely to engage with …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Orringer, Matthew (creator)
Sloman, Steven (thesis advisor)
Johnson, Mark (reader)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cognitive science
Decision making
Social psychology
Psychology
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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Self-Enhancement Bias and Error: Measurement, Perception, and Motivation

Description:
Abstract of Self-Enhancement Bias and Error: Measurement, Perception, and Motivation, by Patrick R. Heck, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017. Self-enhancement is characterized by the robust …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Heck, Patrick Ryan (creator)
Krueger, Joachim (Advisor)
Malle, Bertram (Reader)
Cushman, Fiery (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Social Judgment
Social perception
Self-Knowledge
Social psychology
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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The dynamic interplay between target size perception and visually-guided action

Description:
Key functions of human vision are the perception of one’s environment and interaction with it. Here we investigate the relation between visual perception and visually-guided …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Gamble, Christine Marie (creator)
Song, Joo-Hyun (Advisor)
Warren, William (Reader)
Watanabe, Takeo (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Visual perception
Cognitive neuroscience
visually-guided action
Saccadic eye movements
Hand--Movements
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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