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Brain Signals and Images Hold the Secret to Better Decisions

Professor Chin-Teng Lin's team combined EEG brain signals with image features from camouflaged-animal pictures and predicted whether people would answer correctly better than with either data source alone.

Chin-Teng Lin · University of Technology Sydney

A New Meta-Model Shows When People Act Sustainably

A literature review by Dr. Barbara Meyer's team finds that self-interest widens the gap between people's green values and their actions, while concern for others and the planet narrows it.

Barbara Meyer · Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

The Surprising Link Between Depression and Risk-Taking

A meta-analysis guided by Associate Professor Jianmin Zeng found that people with major depression took more risks in some decision tasks, fewer in others, and differed little in the rest.

Jianmin Zeng · Southwest University

Predicting Fear Responses Using Carbon Dioxide Reactivity

Professor Marie Monfils's team found that rats reacting more strongly to carbon dioxide retained less fear memory after extinction training, and retrieval-extinction reduced fear more than standard extinction.

Marie Monfils · University of Texas at Austin

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