Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Temple University. Using fMRI and tES to understand how we make social and economic decisions.
David V. Smith
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In “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling“ journalist Danny Funt explores the fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to enact sports betting laws.
Glad to highlight a chapter from our lab in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions: “Maladaptive Decision-Making in Older Adults: Confirmation Bias and Financial Exploitation,” led by @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social
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New MEG preprint out! Huge congrats to postdoc Rohit Yadav. We (among other things…) decoded explore-exploit decisions in the human brain, revealing the lateral frontopolar cortex kicks off the shift to exploration hundreds of milliseconds before the choice itself. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran.
Today's post explores two fun facts:
1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!)
2. Even so, stocks rose on the news.
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrew N. Van, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, et al:
Frame-wise multi-echo distortion correction for superior functional MRI
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The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved.
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The authors of the latest PSPI provide an overview on the latest in fraud research. They also strive to highlight the urgency of fraud’s impact. @sdukehan.bsky.social
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
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New work from the lab! With @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social
Update: the book is now officially out! Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is available from Springer here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Huge thanks again to @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social, and all of the contributors.
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For the 50th time this year, we're on the cusp of peace. Apparently.
The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved.
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Scams are now one of the most common crimes in the world. In the most recent issue of PSPI, real-life accounts are used to illustrate how pervasive and indiscriminate fraud can be.
Financial exploitation of older adults has become an increasingly urgent public health issue, with annual losses exceeding $10 billion in the United States. This exploitation often stems from age-related cognitive deficits, such as impairments in working memory...
This book provides comprehensive coverage of core topics and recent advances in the field of neuroeconomics and highlights emerging trends in the field.
🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors.
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