Mauricio R. Delgado

Economic decision-making compared with an equivalent motor task (2009)

Wu, Shih-Wei, Delgado, Mauricio R., Maloney, Laurence T.

There is considerable evidence that human economic decision-making deviates from the predictions of expected utility theory (EUT) and that human performance conforms to EUT in many perceptual and...

Economic decision-making compared with an equivalent motor task (2009)

Wu, Shih-Wei, Delgado, Mauricio R., Maloney, Laurence T.

There is considerable evidence that human economic decision-making deviates from the predictions of expected utility theory (EUT) and that human performance conforms to EUT in many perceptual and...

Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals' loss aversion (2009)

Sokol-Hessner, Peter, Hsu, Ming, Curley, Nina G., Delgado, Mauricio R., Camerer, Colin F., Phelps, Elizabeth A.

Research on emotion regulation has focused upon observers' ability to regulate their emotional reaction to stimuli such as affective pictures, but many other aspects of our affective experience are...

Abstract Performance Feedback Drives Caudate Activation in a Phonological Learning Task (2009)

Elizabeth Tricomi, Mauricio R. Delgado, Bruce D. Mcc, James L. Mcclell, Julie A. Fiez

& Adults have difficulty discriminating nonnative phonetic contrasts, but under certain circumstances training can lead to improvement in this ability. Despite the ubiquitous use of performance...

Working memory for letters, shapes, and locations: fMRI evidence against stimulus-based regional organization of human prefrontal cortex (2000)

Leigh E. Nystrom, Todd S. Braver, Fred W. Sabb, Mauricio R. Delgado, Douglas C. Noll, Jonathan D. Cohen

the frontal cortex have revealed two stimulus dimensions along which frontal cortical representations may be functionally organized. One hypothesized dimension dissociates verbal from nonverbal WM...

How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11

Sharot, Tali, Martorella, Elizabeth A., Delgado, Mauricio R., Phelps, Elizabeth A.

Brown and Kulik [Brown R, Kulik J (1977) Cognition 5:73–99] introduced the term “flashbulb memory” to describe the recall of shocking, consequential events such as hearing news of a...

Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals' loss aversion

Sokol-Hessner, Peter, Hsu, Ming, Curley, Nina G., Delgado, Mauricio R., Camerer, Colin F., Phelps, Elizabeth A.

Research on emotion regulation has focused upon observers' ability to regulate their emotional reaction to stimuli such as affective pictures, but many other aspects of our affective experience are...

Economic decision-making compared with an equivalent motor task

Wu, Shih-Wei, Delgado, Mauricio R., Maloney, Laurence T.

There is considerable evidence that human economic decision-making deviates from the predictions of expected utility theory (EUT) and that human performance conforms to EUT in many perceptual and...

Avoiding Negative Outcomes: Tracking the Mechanisms of Avoidance Learning in Humans During Fear Conditioning

Delgado, Mauricio R., Jou, Rita L., LeDoux, Joseph E., Phelps, Elizabeth A.

Previous research across species has shown that the amygdala is critical for learning about aversive outcomes, while the striatum is involved in reward-related processing. Less is known, however,...