News
New paper validating a novel browser-based aggression task: RC-RAGE
We have a new paper out in Behavioral Research Methods in collaboration with friends and collaborators Dr. Kim Meidenbauer and Dr. Marc Berman! The paper’s title is “Characterizing the role of impulsivity in costly, reactive aggression using a novel paradigm”. You can read the full article here. It was so much fun collaborating on this project. We are looking forward to all the interesting research that comes out of Kim’s new lab at WSU Pullman!
New paper on information foraging during learning while humans and monkeys play Battleship
We have a new paper out in Scientific Reports in collaboration with friend of the lab Dr. David Barack! The paper’s title is “Visuospatial information foraging describes search behavior in learning latent environmental features”. You can read the full article here. We are excited to follow up on this exciting finding with Dr. Barack!
New paper on the effect of item memorability on value-based decisions!
Congrats to graduate student Xinyue Li on publishing a paper in Scientific Reports titled “Item memorability has no influence on value-based decisions”. This was the product of a super fun collaboration with Dr. Wilma Bainbridge! Read the article here.
New Participation Page!
We have added a new page to our website!
https://bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/participate/
On the “Participate” page, you can now view information about all of our ongoing studies, participation criteria, and instructions on how to get involved. We would love to talk more with you about any of these studies!
Email bakkourlab@uchicago.edu with any questions about our current research projects.