This article documents the economic relevance of measuring cognitive uncertainty: people's
subjective uncertainty over their ex ante utility-maximizing decision. In a series of …

Can you reduce uncertainty by thinking? Intuition suggests that this happens through the
elusive process of attention: if we expend mental effort, we can increase the reliability of our …

Anxiety has been related to decreased physical exploration, but past findings on the
interaction between anxiety and exploration during decision making were inconclusive …

Perceptual biases are widely regarded as offering a window into the neural computations
underlying perception. To understand these biases, previous work has proposed a number …

Apathy is a debilitating feature of many neuropsychiatric diseases, that is typically described
as a reduction of goal-directed behaviour. Despite its prevalence and prognostic …

A stimulus held in working memory is perceived as contracted toward the average stimulus.
This contraction bias has been extensively studied in psychophysics, but little is known …

This review organizes the vibrant recent literature on the cognitive foundations of economic
decision-making. At a basic level, this entire literature studies imperfections in cognitive …

The independent effects of short-and long-term experiences on visual perception have been
discussed for decades. However, no study has investigated whether and how these …

To behave adaptively, the brain must register temporal structure in the environment and use
it to organize behavior at multiple timescales. The basal ganglia (BG) are thought to play a …

In many important real-world decision domains, such as finance, the environment, and
health, behavior is strongly influenced by experience. Renewed interest in studying this …