Improving the reliability of cognitive task measures: A narrative review

S Zorowitz, Y Niv - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cognitive tasks are capable of providing researchers with crucial insights into the
relationship between cognitive processing and psychiatric phenomena. However, many …

[HTML][HTML] Fear and anxiety in the face of COVID-19: Negative dispositions towards risk and uncertainty as vulnerability factors

P Millroth, R Frey - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic it is important to identify factors that make people
particularly vulnerable of developing mental-health issues in order to provide case-specific …

Identifying robust correlates of risk preference: A systematic approach using specification curve analysis.

R Frey, D Richter, J Schupp, R Hertwig… - Journal of Personality …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
People's risk preferences are thought to be central to many consequential real-life decisions,
making it important to identify robust correlates of this construct. Various psychological …

A review of risky decision-making in psychosis-spectrum disorders

JR Purcell, EN Herms, J Morales, WP Hetrick… - Clinical psychology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The investigation of risky decision-making has a prominent place in clinical science, with
sundry behavioral tasks aimed at empirically quantifying the psychological construct of risk …

Can cognitive neuroscience solve the lab-dilemma by going wild?

W Vallet, V van Wassenhove - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Reproducibility, measurability, and refutability are the foundation of the scientific method
applied to empirical work. In the study of animal and human behavior, experimental …

Simple autonomous agents can enhance creative semantic discovery by human groups

A Ueshima, MI Jones, NA Christakis - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Innovation is challenging, and theory and experiments indicate that groups may be better
able to identify and preserve innovations than individuals. But innovation within groups …

Sleep deprivation attenuates neural responses to outcomes from risky decision‐making

T Mao, Z Fang, Y Chai, Y Deng, J Rao… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sleep loss impacts a broad range of brain and cognitive functions. However, how sleep
deprivation affects risky decision‐making remains inconclusive. This study used functional …

Insular and striatal correlates of uncertain risky reward pursuit in schizophrenia

JR Purcell, JW Brown, RL Tullar… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Hypothesis Risk-taking in specific contexts can be beneficial,
leading to rewarding outcomes. Schizophrenia is associated with disadvantageous decision …

Age differences in the neural basis of decision-making under uncertainty

L Tisdall, R Mata - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 - Springer
Humans globally are reaping the benefits of longer lives. Yet, longer life spans also require
engaging with consequential but often uncertain decisions well into old age. Previous …

Through the window of my mind: Mapping information integration and the cognitive representations underlying self-reported risk preference.

MD Steiner, FI Seitz, R Frey - Decision, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
A person's risk preference may determine significant life outcomes (eg, in finance or health),
and people are therefore routinely asked to report their risk preferences in various scientific …