Neural Predictors of Purchases

Neural Predictors of Purchases

Microeconomic theory maintains that purchases are driven by a combination of consumer preference and price. Using event-related fMRI, we investigated how people weigh these factors to make purchasing decisions. Consistent with neuroimaging evidence suggesting that distinct circuits anticipate gain and loss, product preference activated the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), while excessive prices activa...

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Evaluating Neural Network Predictors

|We present a new method, inspired by the bootstrap, whose goal it is to determine the quality and reliability of a neural network predictor. Our method leads to more robust forecasting along with a large amount of statistical information on forecast performance that we exploit. We exhibit the method in the context of multi-variate time series prediction on nancial data from the New York Stock ...

NEURAL PREDICTORS OF EATING BEHAVIOR 1 Neural predictors of eating behavior and dietary change

word count: 115 words Main text word count: 4998 Figures/tables: 2 References: 117 Address correspondence to: Nicole R. Giuliani Special Education and Clinical Sciences College of Education 5261 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-5261 Email: [email protected] Elliot T. Berkman Department of Psychology 1227 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 Email: [email protected]

Intelligibility predictors and neural representation of speech

Intelligibility predictors tell us a great deal about human speech perception, in particular which acoustic factors strongly effect human behavior, and which do not. A particular intelligibility predictor, the Articulation Index (AI), is interesting because it models human behavior in noise, and its form has implications about representation of speech in the brain. Specifically, the Articulatio...