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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2022

Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making.

R Frömer, A Shenhav

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Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

R FrömerCognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States. Electronic address: romy_fromer@brown.edu.
A ShenhavCognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States. Electronic address: amitai_shenhav@brown.edu.

Funding

The neural basis of sequential control in human and non-human primatesP20GM103645 · NIGMS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI SANES, JEROME N · 2013 to 2022
$22.9M
Neural and computational mechanisms of motivation and cognitive controlR01MH124849 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI SHENHAV, AMITAI · 2021 to 2025
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103645NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH124849
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While often seeming to investigate rather different problems, research into value-based decision making and cognitive control have historically offered parallel insights into how people select thoughts and actions. While the former studies how people weigh costs and benefits to make a decision, the latter studies how they adjust information processing to achieve their goals. Recent work has highlighted ways in which decision-making research can inform our understanding of cognitive control. Here, we provide the complementary perspective: how cognitive control research has informed understanding of decision-making. We highlight three particular areas of research where this critical interchange has occurred: (1) how different types of goals shape the evaluation of choice options, (2) how people use control to adjust the ways they make their decisions, and (3) how people monitor decisions to inform adjustments to control at multiple levels and timescales. We show how adopting this alternate viewpoint offers new insight into the determinants of both decisions and control; provides alternative interpretations for common neuroeconomic findings; and generates fruitful directions for future research.

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CognitionHumansAttentionChoice conflictMetacognitionPerformance monitoringReward

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PMID34902441
PMCPMC8844247

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