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Cognitive and Neural Bases of Multi-Attribute, Multi-Alternative, Value-based Decisions

Researchers have benefited from characterizing evidence-based decision making as a process involving sequential sampling. More recently, sequential sampling models have been applied to value-based decisions – decisions that involve examining preferences for multi-attribute, multi-alternative choices. The application of sequential sampling models to value-based decisions has helped researchers to account for the context effects associated with […]

Published on January 8, 2019

Is Language Required to Represent Others’ Mental States? Evidence From Beliefs and Other Representations

Abstract An important part of our Theory of Mind—the ability to reason about other people’s unobservable mental states—is the ability to attribute false beliefs to others. We investigated whether processing these false beliefs, as well as similar but nonmental representations, is reliant on language. Participants watched videos in which a protagonist hides a gift and […]

Published on January 7, 2019