The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice

Most of the decisions we make in our everyday lives are based on our past experiences with similar situations. This ranges from trivial decisions, such as deciding which snack to buy while grocery shopping, to more complex decisions, like how to best invest your money or where to go on holiday. In t...

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Main Author: Simonsen, Nick
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76686/
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description Most of the decisions we make in our everyday lives are based on our past experiences with similar situations. This ranges from trivial decisions, such as deciding which snack to buy while grocery shopping, to more complex decisions, like how to best invest your money or where to go on holiday. In this thesis, I present findings from a series of empirical studies examining how people integrate information into memory and utilize it in subsequent choices. Specifically, the experimental studies presented in this thesis examined how people encode and treat task-relevant and task-irrelevant information, allocate attention to available choice options, and assess the temporal dynamics of risky choice. Across all experimental studies, I also examine how formation integration changes with learning. Together, the work presented in this thesis provides theoretical advances to our understanding of how memory and decision-making interact and shape each other.
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spelling nottingham-766862024-12-12T04:30:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76686/ The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice Simonsen, Nick Most of the decisions we make in our everyday lives are based on our past experiences with similar situations. This ranges from trivial decisions, such as deciding which snack to buy while grocery shopping, to more complex decisions, like how to best invest your money or where to go on holiday. In this thesis, I present findings from a series of empirical studies examining how people integrate information into memory and utilize it in subsequent choices. Specifically, the experimental studies presented in this thesis examined how people encode and treat task-relevant and task-irrelevant information, allocate attention to available choice options, and assess the temporal dynamics of risky choice. Across all experimental studies, I also examine how formation integration changes with learning. Together, the work presented in this thesis provides theoretical advances to our understanding of how memory and decision-making interact and shape each other. 2023-12-12 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76686/1/Simonsen%2C%20Nick%2C%2020195048%2C%20corrections.pdf Simonsen, Nick (2023) The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Decision-making evidence accumulation risky choice eye-tracking memory
spellingShingle Decision-making
evidence accumulation
risky choice
eye-tracking
memory
Simonsen, Nick
The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice
title The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice
title_full The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice
title_fullStr The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice
title_full_unstemmed The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice
title_short The interplay between memory and value-based risky choice
title_sort interplay between memory and value-based risky choice
topic Decision-making
evidence accumulation
risky choice
eye-tracking
memory
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76686/