Carsten Murawski

Generic properties of a computational task predict human effort and performance

Juan Pablo Franco, Nitin Yadav, Peter Bossaerts, Carsten Murawski

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY

It has been shown that computational hardness of cognitive tasks affects people's effort and ability to solve problems reliably. H..

Individual Differences in Intertemporal Choice

Kristof Keidel, Qendresa Rramani, Bernd Weber, Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger

Journal article  |  2021  |  Frontiers in Psychology

Intertemporal choice involves deciding between smaller, sooner and larger, later rewards. People tend to prefer smaller rewards th..

Reward Motivation and Cognitive Flexibility in Tau Null-Mutation Mice

Sara Oberrauch, Jeremy A Metha, Maddison L Brian, Samuel A Barnes, Travis J Featherby, Andrew J Lawrence, Daniel Hoyer, Carsten Murawski, Laura H Jacobson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Neurobiology of Aging

The reduction of tau or hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) has been proposed as a therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) a..

Phase transition in the knapsack problem

Nitin Yadav, Carsten Murawski, Sebastian Sardina, Peter Bossaerts

Journal article  |  2021

We examine the phase transition phenomenon for the Knapsack problem from both a computational and a human perspective. We first pr..

THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF BOLSTERING YOUR FINANCIAL RESILIENCE

Carsten Murawski

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

There are some key steps all Australians can take to bolster their financial resilience as COVID-19 continues to impact on our eco..

Effective brain connectivity at rest is associated with choice-induced preference formation.

Katharina Voigt, Carsten Murawski, Sebastian Speer, Stefan Bode

Journal article  |  2020  |  Human Brain Mapping

Preferences can change as a consequence of making a hard decision whereby the value of chosen options increases and the value of r..

Separating Probability and Reversal Learning in a Novel Probabilistic Reversal Learning Task for Mice

Jeremy A Metha, Maddison L Brian, Sara Oberrauch, Samuel A Barnes, Travis J Featherby, Peter Bossaerts, Carsten Murawski, Daniel Hoyer, Laura H Jacobson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The exploration/exploitation tradeoff – pursuing a known reward vs. sampling from lesser known options in the hope of finding a be..

Is Hardness Inherent In Computational Problems? Performance Of Human And Digital Computers On Random Instances Of The 0-1 Knapsack Problem

Nitin Yadav, Carsten Murawski, Sebastian Sardina, Peter Bossaerts

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of 24th European Conference On Artificial Intelligence

Many cognitive problems people face have been shown to be computationally intractable. However, tractability is typically defined ..

Surveying the Use of Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancers in the Australian Financial Services Industry

Elizabeth Bowman, Bosco Feng, Carsten Murawski, Peter Bossaerts

Report  |  2020

The non-medical use of pharmaceuticals such as methylphenidate and modafinil for cognitive enhancement has been explored in colleg..

Monetary feedback modulates performance and electrophysiological indices of belief updating in reward learning.

Daniel Bennett, Karen Sasmita, Ryan T Maloney, Carsten Murawski, Stefan Bode

Journal article  |  2019  |  Psychophysiology

Belief updating entails the incorporation of new information about the environment into internal models of the world. Bayesian inf..