Amitai Shenhav

Allen Institute for Brain Science — United States

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

39h-index10.1kcitations147works5.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies(76), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(54), Behavioral Health and Interventions(27), Neural dynamics and brain function(24), Mental Health Research Topics(15)

Publications147 total

Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making
2025Open Access
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control
2025Open Access
When effort fails: Instances and reasons for effort-performance decoupling
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The Perils of Omitting Omissions when Modeling Evidence Accumulation
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The Perils of Omitting Omissions when Modeling Evidence Accumulation
2025Open Access
Slower transitions between control states lead to reductions in cognitive flexibility over the lifespan
2025Open Access
Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a computational account.
Psychological Review·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
A Novel Approach-Avoidance Task to Study Decision Making Under Outcome Uncertainty
2025Open Access
Considering what we know and what we don't know: Expectations and confidence guide value integration in value-based decision-making
2025Open Access
Breaking the tug-of-war: What neuroeconomics can gain by moving past competition-only models
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Considering What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Expectations and Confidence Guide Value Integration in Value-Based Decision-Making
Open Mind·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Mutual inclusivity improves decision-making by smoothing out choice’s competitive edge
Nature Human Behaviour·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Motivational context determines the impact of aversive outcomes on mental effort allocation
Cognition·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2024· 23 citedOpen Access
Common neural choice signals can emerge artefactually amid multiple distinct value signals
Nature Human Behaviour·2024· 23 citedOpen Access
Integrative Psychological, Computational, and Mechanistic Approaches to Frontal Lobe Function
The MIT Press eBooks·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The affective gradient hypothesis: An affect-centered account of motivated behavior
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Orthogonal neural encoding of targets and distractors supports multivariate cognitive control
Nature Human Behaviour·2024· 36 citedOpen Access
Make or Break: The Influence of Expected Challenges and Rewards on the Motivation and Experience Associated with Cognitive Effort Exertion
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Do you ever get tired of being wrong? The unique impact of feedback on subjective experiences of effort-based decision-making
2023· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jonathan D. Cohen(13), Matthew Botvinick(7), Sebastian Musslick(7), Joshua D. Greene(5), Romy Frömer(5), Michael Inzlicht(4), Ivan Grahek(4), Mark A. Straccia(4), Robert C. Wilson(4), Nathaniel D. Daw(4), Harrison Ritz(4), Falk Lieder(3), Christopher Y. Olivola(3), David G. Rand(3), Carolyn K. Dean Wolf(3), Gary A. Kane(3), Wouter Kool(2), Thomas L. Griffiths(2), Elliot A. Ludvig(2), Gary Aston‐Jones(2)