Jason Leng

Breaking the Tug-of-War: What Neuroeconomics Can Gain by Moving Past Competition-Only Models Popular models of decision-making characterize choice dynamics as a tug-of-war process, where evidence for competing options accumulates until a threshold is reached. While these models capture severa...

Excited to share our chapter "Breaking the Tug-of-War: What Neuroeconomics Can Gain by Moving Past Competition-Only Models" with Yi-Hsin Su, Romy Frömer, and @ashenhav.bsky.social, now out in the new volume, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions"!
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02925-6_10

05.02.2026 07:48 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Misspecified models create the appearance of adaptive control during value-based choice - Communications Psychology In a new computational analysis of previous work, this study shows that a control-free mechanism better accounts for value-based decisions than an account that assumes top-down control invigorating th...

Final paper of my PhD 🤗

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.

However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.

03.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 104    🔁 24    💬 6    📌 1

🎉Happy New Year! 🎉
We are excited to inaugurate Shenhav Lab's BlueSky account with a UC Berkeley News article featuring the newest paper from our lab by @jasonleng.bsky.social!

📰 News Article: ls.berkeley.edu/news/new-app...

🔗 Paper: t.co/l5C3g6IjCP

07.01.2025 21:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0