P W Glimcher

Summary

Affiliation: New York University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Understanding dopamine and reinforcement learning: the dopamine reward prediction error hypothesis
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neuroeconomics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:15647-54. 2011
  2. ncbi Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Science 306:447-52. 2004
  3. ncbi The neurobiology of visual-saccadic decision making
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Annu Rev Neurosci 26:133-79. 2003
  4. ncbi Decisions, decisions, decisions: choosing a biological science of choice
    Paul Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Neuron 36:323-32. 2002
  5. ncbi Making choices: the neurophysiology of visual-saccadic decision making
    P W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Trends Neurosci 24:654-9. 2001
  6. ncbi Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology
    P W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, 809 New York, NY 10003, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 108:131-44. 2001
  7. ncbi Understanding risk: a guide for the perplexed
    Paul W Glimcher
    New York University, New York, New York, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 8:348-54. 2008
  8. ncbi Indeterminacy in brain and behavior
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Annu Rev Psychol 56:25-56. 2005
  9. ncbi Action and outcome encoding in the primate caudate nucleus
    Brian Lau
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Neurosci 27:14502-14. 2007
  10. ncbi Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex
    M L Platt
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York 10003, USA
    Nature 400:233-8. 1999

Research Grants

  1. The Neural Basis of Decision-Making: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2007
  2. The Neural Basis of Decision-Making: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2009
  3. An image-guided neurosurgical workstation
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2007
  4. Eye Movement Control: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul W Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2010
  5. The Neural Basis of Decision-Making: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul W Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2010
  6. Eye Movement Control-Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2006
  7. EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL--CORTICAL & SUBCORTICAL MECHANISMS
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2002
  8. Eye Movement Control: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul W Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2011

Detail Information

Publications28

  1. ncbi Understanding dopamine and reinforcement learning: the dopamine reward prediction error hypothesis
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neuroeconomics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:15647-54. 2011
    ..This review describes both the critical empirical findings that are at the root of this conclusion and the fantastic theoretical advances from which this conclusion is drawn...
  2. ncbi Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Science 306:447-52. 2004
    ..This review describes recent developments in neuroeconomics from both behavioral and biological perspectives...
  3. ncbi The neurobiology of visual-saccadic decision making
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Annu Rev Neurosci 26:133-79. 2003
    ..This review presents many of these recent studies within the emerging neuroeconomic framework for understanding primate decision making...
  4. ncbi Decisions, decisions, decisions: choosing a biological science of choice
    Paul Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Neuron 36:323-32. 2002
    ..These developments in the neurobiological theory of choice, and the new schema they imply, form the subject of this article...
  5. ncbi Making choices: the neurophysiology of visual-saccadic decision making
    P W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Trends Neurosci 24:654-9. 2001
    ....
  6. ncbi Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology
    P W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, 809 New York, NY 10003, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 108:131-44. 2001
    ..While this demonstration focuses on sonographic imaging in non-human primates, similar advances should also be possible for studies in other species, including rodents...
  7. ncbi Understanding risk: a guide for the perplexed
    Paul W Glimcher
    New York University, New York, New York, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 8:348-54. 2008
    ..For novices, this should provide a reasonable introduction to concepts ranging from "risk aversion" to "risk premiums."..
  8. ncbi Indeterminacy in brain and behavior
    Paul W Glimcher
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Annu Rev Psychol 56:25-56. 2005
    ....
  9. ncbi Action and outcome encoding in the primate caudate nucleus
    Brian Lau
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Neurosci 27:14502-14. 2007
    ..Thus, striatal neurons active primarily after a movement appear to be segregated into two distinct groups that provide complimentary information about the outcomes of actions...
  10. ncbi Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex
    M L Platt
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York 10003, USA
    Nature 400:233-8. 1999
    ..Our data indicate that a decision-theoretic model may provide a powerful new framework for studying the neural processes that intervene between sensation and action...
  11. ncbi Midbrain dopamine neurons encode a quantitative reward prediction error signal
    Hannah M Bayer
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Neuron 47:129-41. 2005
    ..We also found that the dopamine system continued to compute the reward prediction error even when the behavioral policy of the animal was only weakly influenced by this computation...
  12. ncbi An "as soon as possible" effect in human intertemporal decision making: behavioral evidence and neural mechanisms
    Joseph W Kable
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA
    J Neurophysiol 103:2513-31. 2010
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  13. ncbi Activity in posterior parietal cortex is correlated with the relative subjective desirability of action
    Michael C Dorris
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Neuron 44:365-78. 2004
    ..These observations may help place many recent findings regarding the posterior parietal cortex into a common conceptual framework...
  14. ncbi Testing the reward prediction error hypothesis with an axiomatic model
    Robb B Rutledge
    Center for Neural Science and Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Neurosci 30:13525-36. 2010
    ..As cognitive neuroscience matures and models proliferate, formal approaches of this kind that assess entire model classes rather than specific model exemplars may take on increased significance...
  15. ncbi Controlled water intake: a method for objectively evaluating thirst and hydration state in monkeys by the measurement of blood osmolality
    Hiroshi Yamada
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 191:83-9. 2010
    ..This evidence suggests that osmolality can be used as a tool for monitoring the hydration level of experimental subjects...
  16. ncbi Separating value from choice: delay discounting activity in the lateral intraparietal area
    KENWAY LOUIE
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Neurosci 30:5498-507. 2010
    ..These findings show that in addition to information about gains, parietal cortex also incorporates information about delay into a precise physiological correlate of economic value functions, independent of the probability of choice...
  17. ncbi Dopaminergic drugs modulate learning rates and perseveration in Parkinson's patients in a dynamic foraging task
    Robb B Rutledge
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Neurosci 29:15104-14. 2009
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  18. ncbi Visual processing, learning and feedback in the primate eye movement system
    Julia Trommershäuser
    Department of Psychology, Giessen University, Otto Behaghel Str 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany
    Trends Neurosci 32:583-90. 2009
    ..We conclude that these properties make the saccadic system an ideal model for studying both the behavioral and neural mechanisms for human voluntary and involuntary choice behavior...
  19. ncbi Value representations in the primate striatum during matching behavior
    Brian Lau
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Neuron 58:451-63. 2008
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  20. ncbi Eye position and memory saccade related responses in substantia nigra pars reticulata
    Hannah M Bayer
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, Room 809, NY 10003, New York, USA
    Exp Brain Res 154:428-41. 2004
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  21. ncbi The neural correlates of subjective value during intertemporal choice
    Joseph W Kable
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, Room 809, New York, New York 10003, USA
    Nat Neurosci 10:1625-33. 2007
    ..This similarity provides unambiguous evidence that the subjective value of potential rewards is explicitly represented in the human brain...
  22. ncbi Specificity of human cortical areas for reaches and saccades
    Ifat Levy
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Neurosci 27:4687-96. 2007
    ..The results are also compatible with theories of efficient coding in cortex...
  23. ncbi Dynamic response-by-response models of matching behavior in rhesus monkeys
    Brian Lau
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Exp Anal Behav 84:555-79. 2005
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  24. ncbi Sustained activity in topographic areas of human posterior parietal cortex during memory-guided saccades
    Denis Schluppeck
    Department of Psychology Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    J Neurosci 26:5098-108. 2006
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  25. ncbi Statistics of midbrain dopamine neuron spike trains in the awake primate
    Hannah M Bayer
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, 809, New York, NY 10003, USA
    J Neurophysiol 98:1428-39. 2007
    ..Together bursts and pauses seemed to provide a continuous, although nonlinear, representation of the theoretically defined reward prediction error of reinforcement learning...
  26. ncbi Stimulus probability directs spatial attention: an enhancement of sensitivity in humans and monkeys
    V M Ciaramitaro
    Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, Room 809, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Vision Res 41:57-75. 2001
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  27. ncbi Cognitive neuroscience and the law
    Brent Garland
    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC, USA
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 16:130-4. 2006
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  28. ncbi Rethinking the thalamus
    Paul W Glimcher
    Nat Neurosci 8:983-4. 2005

Research Grants20

  1. The Neural Basis of Decision-Making: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..We propose a series of experiments aimed at elucidating the basic mechanism that underlies the pathological decision making that marks inappropriate choice-in-time. ..
  2. The Neural Basis of Decision-Making: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..We propose a series of experiments aimed at elucidating the basic mechanism that underlies the pathological decision making that marks inappropriate choice-in-time. ..
  3. An image-guided neurosurgical workstation
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..This will let us quickly and easily find brain areas and investigate how they work together to give rise to cognition in ways that are currently unfeasible. ..
  4. Eye Movement Control: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul W Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  5. The Neural Basis of Decision-Making: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul W Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..We propose a series of experiments aimed at elucidating the basic mechanism that underlies the pathological decision making that marks inappropriate choice-in-time. ..
  6. Eye Movement Control-Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2006
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  7. EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL--CORTICAL & SUBCORTICAL MECHANISMS
    Paul Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..These experiments may ultimately tell us how this nucleus, which has been implicated in a number of human disorders, participates in the generation of movements by normal individuals. ..
  8. Eye Movement Control: Cortical & Subcortical Mechanisms
    Paul W Glimcher; Fiscal Year: 2011
    ....