Shenhav Lab

@ShenhavLab

Neuroscience of motivation, decision making, and cognitive control

Berkeley, CA shenhavlab.org Joined June 2016

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Latest posts 5

Come see our work @affectScience!

😁P2.S.207: How Anticipated Feelings Guide Goal Prioritization Insights from an Inventory of Daily Goals- Skylar Brooks
😁P3.A.243: Decision Goals Shape the Integration of Affective and Perceptual Information about our Options- Ana Hernandez

Shenhav Lab @ShenhavLab Feb 5

Our latest paper, spearheaded by Harrison Ritz and Romy Frömer, is now out in Communications Psychology!! 🎉🎉

nature.com/articles/s4427…

See Harrison's excellent 🧵 below to learn more about what we found:
bsky.app/profile/hritz.…

www.nature.com Misspecified models create the appearance of adaptive control during value-based choice Communications Psychology - In a new computational analysis of previous work, this study shows that a control-free mechanism better accounts for value-based decisions than an account that assumes...

Shenhav Lab @ShenhavLab Nov 11, 2025

Come see our lab’s presentations at #SFN2025! 🧠

1️⃣ NANO018.12: “Neural dynamics underlying divergent influences of reward and punishment on control allocation” (11/16, 3:45 PM) by @JasonLeng5

Shenhav Lab @ShenhavLab Oct 24, 2025

Check out our new preprint, led by @froemero1 and in collaboration with @ChihChungTing2 @SebastianGluth: “Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”
🔗osf.io/preprints/psya…

osf.io Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making Humans can flexibly adjust how they make decisions to arbitrary goals. However, most theories in decision-making focus on predicting one specific choice type (i.e., choosing the best option). Here,...

Shenhav Lab @ShenhavLab Oct 20, 2025

New preprint led by @debyeeneuro: "Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control".
🔗biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

www.biorxiv.org Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and... Human motivation is fundamentally shaped by one’s expectations of the reward they could earn for good performance or the penalty they would avoid for poor performance. However, the extent to which...

Debbie Yee @debyeeneuro Oct 20, 2025

I'm thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @ShenhavLab 🧠

Link here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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