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Amitai Shenhav

Neurosciences Institute ·
Area of research
Cognitive Neuroscience · General Decision Sciences
Research interest
Research interests include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Neural dynamics and brain function.
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40
citations
10,350
works
149
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Slower transitions between control states lead to reductions in cognitive flexibility over the lifespan
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2025cited by 0position: lastdoi
Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
Nature Human Behaviour 2024cited by 37position: lastdoi
Common neural choice signals can emerge artefactually amid multiple distinct value signals
Nature Human Behaviour 2024cited by 29position: lastdoi
Humans reconfigure target and distractor processing to address distinct task demands.
Psychological Review 2023cited by 21position: lastdoi
Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a computational account
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023cited by 21position: lastdoi
Rat Anterior Cingulate Cortex Continuously Signals Decision Variables in a Patch Foraging Task
Journal of Neuroscience 2022cited by 45position: middledoi
Learning when effort matters: neural dynamics underlying updating and adaptation to changes in performance efficacy
Cerebral Cortex 2022cited by 36position: lastdoi
Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022cited by 17position: lastdoi
Common neural choice signals can emerge artifactually amidst multiple distinct value signals
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022cited by 7position: lastdoi
Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation
Nature Communications 2021cited by 252position: lastdoi
Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience
Neuropsychopharmacology 2021cited by 99position: lastdoi
Aversive motivation and cognitive control
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2021cited by 54position: middledoi
Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control
PLoS Computational Biology 2021cited by 53position: lastdoi
Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2021cited by 49position: middledoi
Humans reconfigure target and distractor processing to address distinct task demands
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2021cited by 18position: lastdoi
Aversive Motivation and Cognitive Control
2021cited by 2position: middledoi
When effort matters: Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2020cited by 16position: lastdoi
Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task
2020cited by 12position: middledoi
Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2020cited by 7position: lastdoi
Learning when effort matters: Neural dynamics underlying updating and adaptation to changes in performance efficacy
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2020cited by 6position: lastdoi
The Eighty Five Percent Rule for optimal learning
Nature Communications 2019cited by 113position: middledoi
Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making
Nature Communications 2019cited by 88position: lastdoi
Dissociable components of the reward circuit are involved in appraisal versus choice
Scientific Reports 2019cited by 35position: firstdoi
Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2019cited by 8position: lastdoi
Spatiotemporally distinct neural mechanisms underlie our reactions to and comparison between value-based options
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2019cited by 8position: lastdoi
Author response: Rats exhibit similar biases in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks
2019cited by 0position: middledoi
The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2018cited by 833position: middledoi
Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action
Nature Communications 2018cited by 62position: firstdoi
Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort
Annual Review of Neuroscience 2017cited by 1,130position: firstdoi
Increased locus coeruleus tonic activity causes disengagement from a patch-foraging task
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2017cited by 136position: middledoi

Grants

CRCNS US-German Collaborative Research Proposal: Neural and computational mechanisms of flexible goal-directed decision making
NSF2309022$812,2272024–2025PIRePORTER
CRCNS US-German Collaborative Research Proposal: Neural and computational mechanisms of flexible goal-directed decision making
NSF2520024$723,4542024–2028PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Jonathan D. Cohen · Princeton University9 papers (2016–2022)Romy Frömer · Allen Institute for Brain Science9 papers (2019–2024)Harrison Ritz · Allen Institute for Brain Science6 papers (2020–2024)Xiamin Leng · Allen Institute for Brain Science6 papers (2020–2025)Sebastian Musslick · Allen Institute for Brain Science5 papers (2017–2023)Ivan Grahek · Allen Institute for Brain Science4 papers (2020–2025)Carolyn K. Dean Wolf · Allen Institute for Brain Science4 papers (2019–2021)Debbie Yee · John Brown University4 papers (2020–2021)Matthew Botvinick · Princeton University3 papers (2016–2018)Mahalia Prater Fahey · Allen Institute for Brain Science2 papers (2020–2022)Todd S. Braver · Washington University in St. Louis2 papers (2021–2021)Matthew R. Nassar · Allen Institute for Brain Science2 papers (2022–2024) · 2 papers (2022–2024)Gary Aston‐Jones · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey2 papers (2017–2022)Laura Bustamante · Princeton University2 papers (2020–2021)Alexander Fengler · John Brown University1 papers (2025–2025)Aaron M. Bornstein · New York University1 papers (2019–2019)Elena M. Vazey · University of Massachusetts Amherst1 papers (2017–2017)Morgan H. James · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey1 papers (2022–2022)Joshua D. Greene · Princeton University1 papers (2014–2014)