Ming Chue Hsu

Abstract Choosing to approach or avoid is common in everyday life and excessive avoidance is a cardinal feature of anxiety disorders. We use intracranial EEG to define a prefrontal-limbic circuit supporting approach and avoidance. Presurgical epilepsy patients (n = 20) performed an approach-avoidance conflict decision-making task inspired by the arcade game Pac-Man, where patients trade off rewards against losses from ghost attack.

Benita Hsu y su hermano Ming Hsu, emprendedores de origen taiwanés radicados en Argentina desde hace más de 15 años, lanzarán el próximo 10 de noviembre Orionfin, el primer asistente financiero automatizado que funciona íntegramente por WhatsApp. El objetivo de esta herramienta es que los usuarios puedan tomar mejores decisiones sobre su dinero, optimizar su economía personal y acceder a asesoría financiera de manera simple y directa.

Significance It is more important than ever to seek information adaptively. While it is optimal to acquire information based solely on its instrumental benefit, humans also often acquire useless information because of psychological motives, such as curiosity and pleasure of anticipation. Here we show that instrumental and noninstrumental motives are multiplexed in subjective value of information (SVOI) signals in human brains.