Amitai Shenhav
 

Publications


*Kool, W., *Shenhav A., Botvinick, M.M. (forthcoming). Cognitive control as cost-benefit decision making. To appear in Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control.

Shenhav A., Straccia M.A., Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D. (under review). Dorsal anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortex have inverse roles in both foraging and economic choice. {Preprint}

Shenhav A., Rand D.G., Greene J.D. (under review). The path of least resistance: Intertemporal choice and its relationship to choices, preferences, and beliefs. {Preprint}

Srivastava V., Feng S., Cohen, J.D., Leonard N.E., Shenhav A. (in revision). First passage time properties for time-varying diffusion models: a martingale approach. {Preprint}

Shenhav A. & Botvinick, M.M. (2015). Uncovering a missing link in anterior cingulate research. Neuron 85(3): 455-457. [Commentary; Target Article]

Trapp S., Shenhav A., Bitzer S., Bar M. (2015). Human preferences are biased towards associative information. Cognition and Emotion  29(6): 1054-1068. [Article]

Bornstein A.M., Shenhav A., Miller K.J. (2015). Walking bundles of habits (and Response-Outcome associations). European Journal of Neuroscience 41:1356- 1357. [Commentary; Target Article]

Shenhav A., Straccia M.A., Cohen J.D., Botvinick M.M. (2014). Anterior cingulate engagement in a foraging context reflects choice difficulty, not foraging value. Nature Neuroscience 17(9): 1249-1254. [Article; Supplementary Data; News & Views]

Shenhav A. & Buckner R.L. (2014). Neural correlates of dueling affective reactions to win-win choices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(30): 10978-10983. [Article; Press Release]

Shenhav A. & Greene J.D. (2014). Integrative moral judgment: Dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 34(13): 4741-4749. [Article]

Shenhav A. & Mendes W.B. (2014). Aiming for the stomach and hitting the heart: dissociable triggers and sources for disgust reactions. Emotion 14(2): 301-309. [Article]

Shenhav A., Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D. (2013). The expected value of control: an integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function. Neuron 79 (2): 217-240. [Article]

Shenhav A., Barrett L.F., & Bar M. (2013). Affective value and associative processing share a cortical substrate. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 13: 46-59. [Article; Supplementary Data]

Brunye T. T., Gagnon S. A., Paczynski M., Shenhav A., Mahoney C. R., & Taylor H. A. (2013). Happiness by association: generating broad associations promotes positive affect. Cognition 127 (1): 93-98. [Article]

Shenhav A. & Botvinick, M.M. (2013). Motivated action: New light on prefrontal-neuromodulatory circuits. Current Biology 23(4): R161-R163. [Commentary; Target Article]

*Shenhav A., *Rand D.G., & Greene J.D. (2012). Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 141 (3): 423-428.  [Article; Press Release: 1, 2]

Haque, O.S., Shenhav A., & Rand D.G. (2011). Differences in cognitive style, emotional processing, and ideology as crucial variables in understanding meaning-making. Religion, Brain, & Behavior 1(3): 223-225. [Commentary; Target Article]

Shenhav A. & Greene J.D. (2010). Moral judgments recruit domain-general valuation mechanisms to integrate representations of probability and magnitude. Neuron 67 (4): 667-677. [Article; Supplementary Data; Press Release]

Silver M.A., Shenhav A., & D’Esposito M. (2008). Cholinergic enhancement reduces spatial spread of visual responses in human early visual cortex. Neuron, 60 (5): 904-914. [Article; Supplementary Data]

Presentations


Shenhav A., Musslick S., Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D. (2015). Anterior cingulate and the expected value of control. Society for Psychophysiological Research. [Talk]

Shenhav A., Straccia M.A., Cohen J.D., Botvinick M.M. (2015). Dorsal anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortex have inverse roles in both foraging and economic choice. Society for Neuroeconomics [Poster] / Society for Neuroscience. [Poster]

Kane G., Vazey E.M., Wilson R.C., Shenhav A., Aston-Jones G., Cohen J.D. (2015). Examining the role of the LC in foraging and exploration. Society for Neuroscience. [Poster]

*Butcher P.A., *Shenhav A., Straccia, M.A., Cohen J.D. Botvinick M.M., (2015). Reach trajectories as another index of preferences in dietary choice. Society for Neuroeconomics. [Poster]

*Shenhav, A., *Miller, K.J., Ludvig, E.A. (2015). Habits without values: A case in which RL can be left out of DM. Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Conference. [Poster]

Musslick, S., Shenhav, A., Botvinick, M.M., Cohen, J.D. (2015). A computational model of control allocation based on the Expected Value of Control. Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Conference. [Poster]

Srivastava, V., Feng, S., Shenhav, A. (2015). Performance metrics for time-varying drift and other diffusion based models for decision making. Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Conference. [Poster]

Shenhav A., Straccia, M.A., Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D. (2014). Neural correlates of sensory integration in a value-based decision-making task. Society for Neuroeconomics. [Poster]

Shenhav A., Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D. (2014). Anterior cingulate and the expected value of control. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience. [Talk]

Shenhav A., Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D. (2014). Choosing against a default: modeling biased value-based decisions. 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Talk]

Voina, D., Feng, S.F., Shenhav A., Cohen, J.D. (2014). Fitting diffusion models to value based decisions. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.  [Poster]

Shenhav A., Straccia M.A., Botvinick M.M., Cohen J.D. (2013). Conflict and value comparator accounts can account for anterior cingulate engagement in a foraging-like task. Society for Neuroeconomics. [Talk]

Shenhav A., Buckner, R.L. (2012). Neural correlates of conflict when choosing between things we want. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.  [Poster]

Shenhav A., Bar M., Mendes W.B., Barrett L.F. (2011). The amygdala’s role in representing motivational relevance and response uncertainty. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 403.07.  [Poster]

Shenhav A., Rand D.G., Greene J.D. (2011). Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God. Society for Judgment & Decision Making Abstracts.  [Talk]

Shenhav A., Bar M., Barrett L.F., Mendes W.B. (2011). The behavioral and physiological effects of not knowing what to do. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Abstracts.  [Poster]

Shenhav A., Barrett LF, Bar M. (2009). Neural systems shared by visual predictions and affective evaluation in object recognition. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 603.14. [Talk]

Shenhav A., Greene J.D. (2009). Utilitarian calculations, emotional assessments, and integrative moral judgments: differentiating neural systems underlying moral decision-making. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts.  [Talk]

Shenhav A., Greene J.D. (2008). Representing expected moral value:  Outcome magnitude, probability, and expected value in the context of moral judgment. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 682.12[Poster]

Shenhav A., D’Esposito M., Silver M.A. (2007). Attentional modulation of center and surround responses in human early visual cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 177.5[Poster]

Silver M.A., Shenhav A., D'Esposito M. (2007). Sustained attention decreases spatial spread of visual responses in human early visual cortex. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts [Poster]

Silver M.A., Shenhav A., D’Esposito M. (2006). Cholinergic enhancement decreases spatial spread of visual responses in human primary visual cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 545.18. [Poster]