Neurogenetics of Working Memory and Decision Making under Time Pressure

The aim of the present paper was to test the effects of response mode (choice vs. judgment) on decision-making strategies when subjects were faced with the task of deciding the adequacy of a set of tests for a specific assessment situation. Compared with choice, judgment was predicted to lead to more information sought, more time spent on the task, a less variable pattern of search, and a greater amount of interdimensional search. Three variables hypothesized as potential moderators of the response mode effects are also studied: time pressure, information load and decision importance. Using an information board, 300 subjects made decisions (choices and judgments) on tests for a concrete assessment situation, under high or low time pressure, high or low information load, and high or low decision importance. Response mode produced strong effects on all measures of decision behavior except for pattern of search. Moderator effects occurred for time pressure and information load.

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Economic decision making under conditions of extreme time pressure and option overload: an eye-tracking study

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e636742011-042 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elena Reutskaja ◽

Johannes Pulst-Korenberg ◽

Rosemarie Nagel ◽

Colin F. Camerer ◽

Antonio Rangel

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Eye Tracking ◽

Time Pressure ◽

Economic Decision ◽

Economic Decision Making

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Discerning cognitive stages in a working memory and decision making task from human fMRI data using multivariate time series analysis

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience ◽

10.3389/conf.fncom.2012.55.00228 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Durstewitz Daniel

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Working Memory ◽

Time Series ◽

Time Series Analysis ◽

Multivariate Time Series ◽

Fmri Data ◽

Series Analysis ◽

Multivariate Time Series Analysis

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Cognitive Control of Working Memory: A Model-Based Approach

Brain Sciences ◽

10.3390/brainsci11060721 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 721

Author(s):

Russell J. Boag ◽

Niek Stevenson ◽

Roel van Dooren ◽

Anne C. Trutti ◽

Zsuzsika Sjoerds ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Working Memory ◽

Cognitive Control ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Decision Time ◽

Control Processes ◽

Prepotent Response ◽

New Information ◽

Empirical Performance ◽

Flow Of Information

Working memory (WM)-based decision making depends on a number of cognitive control processes that control the flow of information into and out of WM and ensure that only relevant information is held active in WM’s limited-capacity store. Although necessary for successful decision making, recent work has shown that these control processes impose performance costs on both the speed and accuracy of WM-based decisions. Using the reference-back task as a benchmark measure of WM control, we conducted evidence accumulation modeling to test several competing explanations for six benchmark empirical performance costs. Costs were driven by a combination of processes, running outside of the decision stage (longer non-decision time) and showing the inhibition of the prepotent response (lower drift rates) in trials requiring WM control. Individuals also set more cautious response thresholds when expecting to update WM with new information versus maintain existing information. We discuss the promise of this approach for understanding cognitive control in WM-based decision making.

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