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, addiction, and intertemporal choice, using computational model-driven analysis of behavior and brain activity (via fMRI, but with plans for EEG and other methods).
If you're interested in working in the lab, please send me a brief (~2 paragraph) message describing your research experience and interests.
Include a CV and email addresses of up to three references.
Postdoc candidates: Send the above information, and include two or three relevant manuscripts (preprints are ok).
PhD applicants:
Applications for the 2022 PhD cohort are closed.
If you would like to inquire about applying for admission in 2023, please send the above information (plus manuscripts, if any).
UCI undergraduates: Refer to the UROP posting for details.
Publications
(* = Equal contribution.)
Preprints
Banavar NV, Bornstein AM.
Response time modeling provides stable and mechanistically interpretable measures of individual differences in behavioral
pattern separation.
Banavar NV, Bornstein AM
(2022).
Decision difficulty modulates the re-use of computations across trials in non-sequential decision tasks.
Proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making.
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Harhen NC, Bornstein AM
(2022).
Humans adapt their foraging strategies and computations to environment complexity.
Proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making.
[pdf]
Yoo J, Bornstein AM
(2022).
Two-stage task with increased state space complexity to assess online planning.
Proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making.
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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.
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