How do we make good decisions with little experience? Adults can rely on memories of past choices. In our new study in @pnas.org we show kids & teens do something similar–but what they remember turns out to be quite different! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward | PNAS

Most widely studied option evaluation strategies rely on knowledge accumulated across repeated experiences. But how should options be evaluated in ...

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Despite the world being on fire, I can't help but be thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth in Fall '26. I'll be recruiting grad students this upcoming cycle—get in touch if you're interested!

I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵

Happy to belatedly "announce" that our paper on nudging has been published in Psych Review! We understand nudges as changing the "meta-level decision-making problem", influencing people's choices by influencing what they think about it. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

New preprint! Here, we examine how the specificity of learning computations adapts to the reward structure of the environment and influences memory across development.   osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more details. 🧵⬇️

Really excited to share our new paper where we use a reinforcement learning model to demonstrate that rational adaptation to an unpredictable early life environment can produce key characteristics of anhedonia (1/10) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New manuscript! Here, we fit 27 different models to behavior in both humans and monkeys to understand what computations drive patch foraging decisions. Comments/questions/criticisms/suggestions definitely welcome!

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Information gathering explains decision dynamics during human and monkey reward foraging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.14.562362v1

Hi Bluesky! I’m recruiting PhD students to help launch the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at U of New Hampshire Psych in Fall 2024! Check out our lab website at liquinlab.github.io for more info, and feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in applying! #CogSci #DevPsych #PsychSciSky

New lab paper! Memory precision and age each affect different decision systems. The lab's first foray into cognitive aging, fearlessly lead by Dr. Sharon Noh. Details in her 🐦🧵 twitter.com/sharon_noh/s... - and out now in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lif...

Scientific Reports - Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lifespan

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