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    "pk": 26974,
    "title": "Attractor Dynamics in Delay Discounting: A Call for Complexity",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The outcomes of intertemporal choices indicate that people\ndiscount rewards by their delay. These outcomes are well\ndescribed by discounting functions. However, to fully\nunderstand the decision process one needs models describing\nhow the process of decision-making unfolds dynamically over\ntime. Here, we validate a recently published attractor model\nthat extends discounting functions through a description of\nthe dynamics leading to a final choice outcome within and\nacross trials. We focus on the decision dynamics across trials.\nWe derive qualitative predictions for the inter-trial dynamics\nof sequences of decisions that are unique to this type of\nmodel. We test these predictions in a delay discounting game\nwhere we sequentially manipulated subjective values of\noptions across all attribute dimensions. Results confirm the\nmodel’s predictions. We discuss future challenges on\nintegrating attractor models towards a general attractor model\nof delay discounting to enhance our understanding of the\nprocesses underlying delay discounting decisions.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "decision making; delay discounting; process\ndynamics"
        },
        {
            "word": "attractor dynamics; hysteresis; neural attractor\nmodel"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ns9x5t8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Martin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schoemann",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Technische Universität Dresden",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stefan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Scherbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Technische Universität Dresden",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}