Urai AE, de Gee JW, Tsetsos K, Donner TH. (2019) Choice history biases subsequent evidence accumulation. eLife, 8:e46331. By Anne Urai & Tobias H. Donner To study the mechanisms of decision-making, researchers often treat individual decisions as isolated events. However,
Gender diversity in academia
By Anne Urai & Tobias Donner. Although we’d all like academia to be a true meritocracy, implicit biases shared by all of us create significant hurdles to achieving diversity in our communities. We discussed the data (showing both the extent to
Our lab’s take on open science
By Kobe Desender and Anne Urai. This blog post expresses the opinion of the members of the lab. The post does not represent the official position of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), or of the Department of Neurophysiology & Pathophysiology, UKE.
New paper published in Nature Communications: Pupil dilation reflects decision uncertainty and alters choice patterns
By Anne Urai and Tobias Donner. The first paper of Anne’s PhD is now out! In this project, we investigated the relationship between pupil dilation, decision uncertainty and across-trial patterns of decisions. When making decisions about the world, each choice is
ABC poster prize for Anne Urai
Anne presented her work on pupil dilation and decision uncertainty at the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC) Brain Day on the 24th of June, and won the best poster award for her work. Congrats Anne! Anne Urai wins ABC Poster Award
Neuroscience in China: visiting NYU Shanghai
By Anne Urai. I recently visited NYU Shanghai, one of New York University’s global campuses, while on holiday in China. NYU has partnered with East China Normal University, and I visited Dr. Jeffrey Erlich in his office at the leafy Zhongbei campus.
Modelling choice probability dynamics in visual decision-making
By Anne Urai and Peter Murphy. In our lab journal club before the winter break, we read Wimmer et al. (2015). Sensory integration dynamics in a hierarchical network explains choice probabilities in cortical area MT. Nature Communications, 6, 6177. The phenomenon of