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| Eldad YechiamSummaryAffiliation: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Country: Israel Publications
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On the potential value and limitations of emphasis change and other exploration-enhancing training methodsE Yechiam
Center for Cognitive Research, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa
J Exp Psychol Appl 7:277-85. 2001..Erev and D. A. Gopher's (1999) model of the conditions for the success of emphasis change training, shed light on the limitations and potential of exploration-enhancing training methods...- Adapted to explore: reinforcement learning in Autistic Spectrum ConditionsEldad Yechiam
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Brain Cogn 72:317-24. 2010..These findings suggest that ASC individuals have a unique adaptive learning style, which may be beneficial is some learning environment but maladaptive in others, particularly in social contexts... - Decision making in bipolar disorder: a cognitive modeling approachEldad Yechiam
Max Wertheimer Minerva Center for Cognitive Studies, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Psychiatry Res 161:142-52. 2008..Low choice consistency improved the prediction of acute bipolar disorder beyond that provided by cognitive functioning and self-report measures of personality and temperament... - A formal cognitive model of the go/no-go discrimination task: evaluation and implicationsEldad Yechiam
Behavioral Science Area, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Psychol Assess 18:239-49. 2006..The present model can thus potentially improve the sensitivity of the task to differences between clinical populations... - Comparison of basic assumptions embedded in learning models for experience-based decision makingEldad Yechiam
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 12:387-402. 2005..The results indicated the advantage of a class of models incorporating decay of previous experience, whereas the ranking of choice rules depended on the evaluation method used... - Using cognitive models to map relations between neuropsychological disorders and human decision-making deficitsEldad Yechiam
Indiana University, IN, USA
Psychol Sci 16:973-8. 2005..These findings demonstrate the potential contribution of cognitive models in building bridges between neuroscience and behavior... - Neurocognitive deficits related to poor decision making in people behind barsEldad Yechiam
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Psychon Bull Rev 15:44-51. 2008..The present cognitive model provides a novel way for building a bridge between cognitive neuroscience and complex human behaviors... - Recency gets larger as lesions move from anterior to posterior locations within the ventromedial prefrontal cortexGuy Hochman
Max Wertheimer Minerva Center for Cognitive Studies, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Behav Brain Res 213:27-34. 2010..These results suggest that the posterior area of the prefrontal cortex directly modulates the capacity to use time-delayed information. In contrast, we did not find similar modulation for the sensitivity to gains versus losses... - Motivational processes and autonomic responsivity in Asperger's disorder: evidence from the Iowa Gambling TaskShannon A Johnson
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 12:668-76. 2006..Findings are discussed in the context of the neurobiological substrates associated with IGT performance... - Decision making and personality in traffic offenders: a study of Israeli driversDror Lev
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Accid Anal Prev 40:223-30. 2008..These results demonstrate that the IGT can be useful for studying individual differences in risk taking in a real-world task, and combined with the EV model, identify the sources of these differences... - Non-specific effects of methylphenidate (Ritalin) on cognitive ability and decision-making of ADHD and healthy adultsNirit Agay
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 210:511-9. 2010..The effect of a single dose of methylphenidate (MPH) on cognitive measures and decision-making processes was assessed in a sample of adults with ADHD and in a control sample... - Easy first steps and their implication to the use of a mouse-based and a script-based strategyEldad Yechiam
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 10:89-96. 2004..Second, learning the easy strategy first reduced between-subjects variability. It helped poor performers but resulted in a lower proportion of high-level performers... - Iowa gambling task in schizophrenia: a review and new data in patients with schizophrenia and co-occurring cannabis use disordersSerge Sevy
Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY, 11004, USA
Schizophr Res 92:74-84. 2007..To test this hypothesis, we compared schizophrenia patients with (SCZ((+))) or without (SCZ((-))) cannabis use disorders, to healthy subjects, on measures of cognition and IGT performance... - Emotion-based decision-making in healthy subjects: short-term effects of reducing dopamine levelsSerge Sevy
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, and Psychiatry Research Department, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 188:228-35. 2006..So far, it is unclear what aspects of addictive behaviors are related to a dopaminergic dysfunction... - Application of a computational decision model to examine acute drug effects on human risk takingScott D Lane
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 14:254-64. 2006..These outcomes underscore the utility of using a computational modeling approach to deconstruct decision-making processes and thus better understand drug effects on risky decision making in humans... - Decision-making impairments in adolescents with early-onset schizophreniaHana M Kester
Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Schizophr Res 85:113-23. 2006..These findings have potential implications for understanding the increased vulnerability for the development of substance abuse in adolescents with schizophrenia... - Working memory and decision-making biases in young adults with a family history of alcoholism: studies from the Oklahoma family health patterns projectWilliam R Lovallo
Behavioral Sciences Laboratories, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73104, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:763-73. 2006..Alcohol misuse is more common in persons with a family history of alcoholism (FH+) than in those with no such history (FH-). Among FH+, behavioral disinhibition and male sex seem to signal the presence of an increased risk...