Decisions in Motion: Decision Dynamics during Intertemporal Choice reflect Subjective Evaluation of Delayed Rewards

O’Hora, Denis; Carey, Rachel; Kervick, Aoife; Crowley, David; Dąbrowski, M

doi:10.1038/srep20740

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“…This is in contrast with the findings of Dshemuchadse et al (2013), who identified a bias towards the SS option in mouse cursor trajectories. To further complicate the issue, Calluso et al (2015) and O'Hora et al (2016) found a bias in the opposite direction, towards the LL option.…”

Section: Symmetrically Increased Motor Costs Of Responding Do Not Affmentioning

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Beyond reach: Do symmetric changes in motor costs affect decision making? A registered report

Zgonnikov

Atiya

O’Hora

et al. 2019

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Executing an important decision can be as easy as moving a mouse cursor or reaching towards the preferred option with a hand. But would we decide differently if choosing required walking a few steps towards an option? More generally, is our preference invariant to the means and motor costs of reporting it? Previous research demonstrated that asymmetric motor costs can nudge the decision-maker towards a less costly option. However, virtually all traditional decision-making theories predict that increasing motor costs symmetrically for all options should not affect choice in any way. This prediction is disputed by the theory of embodied cognition, which suggests that motor behavior is an integral part of cognitive processes, and that motor costs can affect our choices. In this registered report, we investigated whether varying motor costs can affect response dynamics and the final choices in an intertemporal choice task: choosing between a readily available small reward and a larger but delayed reward. Our study compared choices reported by moving a computer mouse cursor towards the preferred option with the choices executed via a more motor costly walking procedure. First, we investigated whether relative values of the intertemporal choice options affect walking trajectories in the same way as they affect mouse cursor dynamics. Second, we tested a hypothesis that, in the walking condition, increased motor costs of a preference reversal would decrease the number of changes-of-mind and therefore increase the proportion of impulsive, smaller-but-sooner choices. We confirmed the hypothesis that walking trajectories reflect covert dynamics of decision making, and rejected the hypothesis that increased motor costs of responding affect decisions in an intertemporal choice task. Overall, this study contributes to the empirical basis enabling the decision-making theories to address the complex interplay between cognitive and motor processes.

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Section: Symmetrically Increased Motor Costs Of Responding Do Not Affmentioning

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Beyond reach: Do symmetric changes in motor costs affect decision making? A registered report

Zgonnikov

Atiya

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“…Our four BIS/BAS measures also matched on mean scores to an American student population (Chang et al, 2007). Our mean K value was slightly above that found in national Irish sample by (O'Hora, Carey et al 2016). Finally, employing the clinical cut-off points suggested in the YIAS questionnaire by (Young, 1998), it is proposed that 12.7% of our population was classified as "addicted".…”

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“…A customised computerized delay discounting task "Price your Vice" was employed to measure an individual's tendency to discount future monetary rewards (O'Hora, Carey, Kervick, Crowley, & Dabrowski, 2016). Each participant completed 20 trails which involved a choosing between two monetary rewards.…”

Section: Delay Discounting Task (Dd)mentioning

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Assessing the effects of internet-related drug urges on inhibition using an anti-saccade task

Delahunty¹,

o'Hora²

2018

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(246 words):Title: Assessing the effects of internet-related urges on inhibition using an anti-saccade task Background: The average adult spends two thirds of waking day online; many researchers propose that this excess internet usage is driven by some form of behavioural addiction. One feature of addictions, according to the Tiffany cognitive urge model, is the presence of urges (i.e., craving) to engage in the behaviour that are difficult to ignore. The current study attempted to establish whether urges occurs for internet usage and test whether such urges interferes with inhibition processes.

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“…On the basis of this assumption, this new method has been applied in nearly all aspects of cognitive and social decision making studies, including delay discounting and stop-signal tasks (Dschemuchadse et al, 2013, O'Hora et al, 2016, numerical judgment (Xiao & Yamauchi, 2015), categorization (Dale, Kehoe, & Spivey, 2007), inductive reasoning (Yamauchi, Kohn, & Yu, 2007), linguistic judgment (Spivey, Grosjean, & Knoblich, 2005), racial and gender judgment of morphed face pictures Freeman, Pauker, Apfelbaum, & Ambady, 2009), attitudinal ambivalence toward certain topics (e.g., abortion) (Schneider et al, 2015;Wojnowicz, Ferguson, Dale, & Spivey, 2009), uncertainty in economic choices (Calluso, Committeri, Pezzulo, Lepora, & Tosoni, 2015), and among others (see for review , Freeman, 2018;Stillman et al, 2018;Yamauchi, Leontyev, & Wolfe, 2017).…”

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Discerning Mouse Trajectory Features with Drift Diffusion Model

Leontyev¹,

Yamauchi²

2020

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In decision-making tasks, participants are commonly instructed to respond by pressing a key. This design provides information about how fast and accurate an individual can respond but does not allow a researcher to directly study the process of response selection. Recently, mouse cursor tracking has been applied to offset this limitation. However, it is unclear whether RT/accuracy-based measures and mouse movement features (e.g. velocity) assess the same cognitive processes. To clarify the relationship between mouse movement features and cognitive processes, we developed mouse-tracking versions of the stop-signal and delay discounting tasks and investigated a) whether people respond similarly in the tasks with traditional design and tasks employing mouse cursor tracking; b) which features of the decision-making process mouse movement measures correspond with. Although participants responded similarly in tasks with traditional and mouse tracking design, only a few mouse movement features were related to the elements of the decision-making process.

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Decisions in Motion: Decision Dynamics during Intertemporal Choice reflect Subjective Evaluation of Delayed Rewards

Cited by 33 publications

References 56 publications

Beyond reach: Do symmetric changes in motor costs affect decision making? A registered report

Beyond reach: Do symmetric changes in motor costs affect decision making? A registered report

Assessing the effects of internet-related drug urges on inhibition using an anti-saccade task

Discerning Mouse Trajectory Features with Drift Diffusion Model

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