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Lab

I'm starting a lab in the department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine!
 
The lab's ongoing research investigates the influence of memories on behavior. Specific projects in progress examine the roles of episodic and working memory in decisions for reward, perceptual inference, drug choice and addiction, and intertemporal choice, using computational model-driven analysis of behavior and brain activity (via fMRI, but with plans for EEG and other methods).
 
We're hiring! If you're interested in working in the lab - as a research assistant, lab manager, or postdoc - please send me a brief (~2 paragraph) message describing your research interests. Include a CV and email addresses of up to three references. Postdoc candidates should include two or three relevant manuscripts (preprints are ok).
 
Looking to do a PhD? Applications for the Fall 2019 Cognitive Science PhD cohort are closed, but if you're thinking of applying for 2020, I'm happy to talk and see if you might be a good fit. Inquiries should include the above information (summary, CV, references, manuscripts if any).

Working papers (under review/revision)

Hunter LE*, Bornstein AM*, Hartley CA. A common deliberative process underlies model-based planning and patient intertemporal choice. [pdf]
 
Kane GA, Bornstein AM, Shenhav A, Wilson RC, Aston-Jones G, Daw ND, Cohen JD. Rats exhibit similar biases in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks. [pdf]
 
Bornstein AM, Aly M, Feng SF, Turk-Browne NB, Norman KA, Cohen JD. Perceptual decisions result from the continuous accumulation of memory and sensory evidence. [pdf] [supplement] [data]

Peer-reviewed publications

Hoskin AN, Bornstein AM, Norman KA, Cohen JD (2019). Refresh my memory: Episodic memory reinstatements intrude on working memory maintenance. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19:338-354. [pdf] [supplement] [data]
 
Millner AJ, den Ouden HEM, Gershman SJ, Glenn CR, Kearns J, Bornstein AM, Marx BP, Keane TM, Knock MK (2019). Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are associated with an increased decision-making bias for active responses to escape aversive states. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(2):106-118.
 
Bornstein AM, Khaw MW, Shohamy D, Daw ND (2017). Reminders of past choices bias decisions for reward in humans. Nature Communications, 8:15958. [pdf] [supplement] [news & views]
 
Bornstein AM, Norman KA (2017). Reinstated episodic context guides sampling-based decisions for reward. Nature Neuroscience, 20:997-1003. [pdf] [supplement] [news & views] [data]
 
Kane GA, Bornstein AM, Shenhav A, Wilson RC, Daw ND, Cohen JD (2017). Mechanisms of overharvesting in patch foraging. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 637-642. [pdf]
 
Bornstein AM, Daw ND (2013). Cortical and hippocampal correlates of deliberation during model-based decisions for rewards in humans. PLoS Computational Biology, 9(12):e1003387. [pdf] [supplement]
 
Bornstein AM, Daw ND (2012). Dissociating hippocampal and striatal contributions to sequential prediction learning. European Journal of Neuroscience, 35:1011-1023. [pdf] [supplement]
 
Preston AR, Bornstein AM, Hutchinson JB, Gaare ME, Glover GH, Wagner AD (2010). High-resolution fMRI of content-sensitive subsequent memory responses in human medial temporal lobe. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22:156-173.
 
Floares A, Jakary A, Bornstein A, Deicken R (2006). Neural networks and Classification and Regression Trees are able to distinguish females with major depression from healthy controls using neuroimaging data. Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference of Neural Networks, 2006, 4605-4611.

Reviews, commentaries

Bornstein AM*, Constantino SM* (2017). Nudge back: Towards a taxonomy of scientific rationalities. London Conference in Critical Thought. [abstract]
 
Bornstein AM, Miller KJ, Shenhav A (2015). Walking bundles of habits (and Response-Outcome associations). European Journal of Neuroscience, 41:1356-1357. [pdf]
 
Wallisch P, Bornstein AM (2013). Enhanced motion perception as a psychophysical marker for autism? Journal of Neuroscience, 33(37):14631-14632. [pdf]
 
Bornstein AM, Nylen EL, Steele SA (2011). Unblocking the neural substrates of model-based value. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(28):10117-10118. [pdf]
 
Bornstein AM, Daw ND (2011). Multiplicity of control in the basal ganglia: Computational roles of striatal subregions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 21(3):374-380. [pdf]

Unpublished commentaries

Bornstein AM, Shvartsman M (2015). Distinguishing between descriptive and rational approaches to collapsing decision bounds. [pdf]
 
Bornstein AM, Constantino SM (2012). The temporal dynamics of value-based decisions in humans. [pdf]

Organizing

(2018) Talk series - Princeton Neuroscience Institute "Inside-Out seminars", organized with Ahmed El Hady.
 
(2018) Book - "Goal-Directed Decision Making: Computations and Neural Circuits", co-edited with Richard W. Morris and Amitai Shenhav.
 
(2015) Cosyne workshop - "Memory in action: The role(s) of the hippocampus in decisions for reward", organized with Elliott Wimmer.

Other

Prison Teaching Initiative
 
Running list of recommended media (books, movies, tv, articles, etc)
 

Arron Aron Bornstein Aaron Bronstein Aaron Bornstien MIT Stanford NYU Princeton Irvine aaron@bornstein.org aaronb@nyu.edu aaronb@cns.nyu.edu aaronmb@mit.edu aaronb@mit.edu aaronmb@alum.mit.edu aaronmb@princeton.edu aaron.bornstein@uci.edu bornstea@uci.edu neuroscience psychology economics brains math mathematics hippocampus striatum reinforcement learning episodic memory netris Andre Bretton-Woods Andre Breton-Woods Black Swann's Way