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Arthur Lee to join faculty at Boston University

Congratulations, Arthur!

Distinguishing deception from its confounds: a dual-goal tuning approach for improving the validity of fMRI-based neural prediction (in press at PNAS)

Abstract: Deception is a universal human behavior. Yet longstanding skepticism about the validity of measures used to characterize the biological mechanisms underlying deceptive behavior has relegated such studies to the scientific periphery. Here we address these fundamental questions by…

Neuro-Law paper in press at Science Advances

Abstract: Many legal decisions center on the thoughts or perceptions of some idealized group of individuals, referred to variously as the “average person”, “the typical consumer”, or the “reasonable person”. Substantial concerns exist, however, regarding the subjectivity and vulnerability to biases…

Enhancing cortical dopamine tone improves working memory in post-traumatic stress disorder

Working memory, cortical dopamine tone, and frontoparietal brain recruitment in post-traumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial

Melissa Newton receives her Ph.D.

Melissa recently received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from U.C. Berkeley.  Congratulations, Melissa!

Ioannis Pappas to join USC faculty

 Congratulations, Ioannis!

New paper: Modeling to predict open-ended decisions

Retrieval-Constrained Valuation: Toward Prediction of Open-Ended Decisions

Andrew Westphal joins the lab for his postdoctoral fellowship

Andrew joins us from UCLA, where he worked in Jesse Rissman's lab. Welcome, Andrew!

Congratulations to Mike Ballard on his new position!

Feb 27, 2017 akayser