MOUTOUSSIS , Michael

Decision-making is a cognitive process of central importance for the quality of our lives. Here, we ask whether a common factor underpins our diverse decision-making abilities. We obtained 32 decision-making measures from 830 young people and identified a common factor that we call ''decision acuity,'' which was distinct from IQ and reflected a...

BACKGROUND: In 2009, the National Institute of Mental Health launched the Research Domain Criteria, an attempt to move beyond diagnostic categories and ground psychiatry within neurobiological constructs that combine different levels of measures (e.g., brain imaging and behavior). Statistical methods that can integrate such multimodal data,...

A characteristic of adaptive behavior is its goal-directed nature. Anability to act in a goal-directed manner is progressively refinedduring development, but this refinement can be impacted by theemergence of psychiatric disorders. Disorders of compulsivity havebeen framed computationally as a deficit in model-based control,and have been linked...