Jonathan D Cohen

Biographic Data

ID1660489
NAMEJonathan D Cohen
GIVEN NAMESJonathan D
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN J D
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0000-0003-2316-0763
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Toward the Emergence of Intelligent Control

    Open AccessTyler Giallanza, Declan Campbell et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2024

    Human cognition is unique in its ability to perform a wide range of tasks and to learn new tasks quickly. Both abilities have long been associated with the acquisition of knowledge that can generalize across tasks and the flexible use of that knowledge to execute goal-directed behavior. We investigate how this emerges in a neural network by describing and testing the Episodic Generalization and Optimization (EGO) framework. The framework consists…

  • Harcèlement scolaire, que faire

    Éric Debarbieux, Jonathan D Cohen et al.ARTICLESciences Humaines2022

  • Examining K–12 teacher learning in a makerspace through the activity–identity–community framework

    William M Jones, Matt Caratachea et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Technology…2021

    Despite growing interest in the educational benefits of integrating making into formal educational contexts, few studies have examined professional development (PD) models for assisting K–12 teachers in doing so. Through the design and implementation of a unique PD experience, this qualitative case study examined the perspectives of eight teachers from an independent girls’ high school who participated in an eight-week maker-centered learning exp…

  • A pupillary index of susceptibility to decision biases

    Open AccessEran Eldar, Valkyrie Felso et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Cited by: 1References: 36

  • Put the Gangsters Out of Business”

    Open AccessJonathan D Cohen, Jonathan CohenARTICLEJournal of Policy History2019References: 6

    From the 1950s through the 1970s, American policymakers engaged in an extensive campaign against illegal gambling in an effort to turn the tide in the government’s crusade against organized crime. At the grassroots, however, voters endorsed a different form of state expansion to beat back the mob menace. Between 1963 and 1977, fourteen northeastern and Rust Belt states enacted the first government-run lotteries in the twentieth-century United Sta…

  • Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort

    Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Musslick et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Neuroscience2017

    In spite of its familiar phenomenology, the mechanistic basis for mental effort remains poorly understood. Although most researchers agree that mental effort is aversive and stems from limitations in our capacity to exercise cognitive control, it is unclear what gives rise to those limitations and why they result in an experience of control as costly. The presence of these control costs also raises further questions regarding how best to allocate…

  • Baseball’s Power Shift

    Jonathan D Cohen, Jonathan CohenARTICLEJournal of Sport History2017

    Book Review| April 01 2017 Baseball’s Power Shift: How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports CulturePlayers: The Story of Sports and Money and the Visionaries Who Fought to Create a Revolution Swanson, Krister. Baseball’s Power Shift: How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. 304. Notes, annotated bibliography, index. $29.95, hb.Fut…

  • Cognitive Control (Executive Function)

    Open AccessJonathan D CohenCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Scientific Approaches to Consciousness

    Jonathan D Cohen, Jonathan W SchoolerBOOKScientific Approaches to…2014

    There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth of cognitive science the problem of consciousness remained taboo, but an increasing number of studies have either implicitly or explicitly begun to bear on its nature. These have been inspired by a number of different different original questions, and focus on a variety…

  • The Expected Value of Control

    Open AccessAmitai Shenhav, M M Botvinick et al.ARTICLENeuron2013

  • Pushing moral buttons

    Open AccessJerome D Greene, Joshua D Greene et al.ARTICLECognition2009

  • The red and the real

    Jonathan D Cohen, Jonathan CohenBOOKThe red and the real2009

    This title offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Cohen draws on color science, psychology, phenomenology semantics, and ontology in arguing that colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects.

  • The Matrics Consensus Cognitive Battery, Part 1

    Keith H Nuechterlein, Michael F Green et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Psychiatry2008

    OBJECTIVE: The lack of an accepted standard for measuring cognitive change in schizophrenia has been a major obstacle to regulatory approval of cognition-enhancing treatments. A primary mandate of the National Institute of Mental Health's Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) initiative was to develop a consensus cognitive battery for clinical trials of cognition-enhancing treatments for schizophrenia …

  • Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment

    Open AccessJerome D Greene, Joshua D Greene et al.ARTICLECognition2008

  • Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration

    Open AccessJonathan D Cohen, Samuel M McClure et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Transactions of the…2007

    Many large and small decisions we make in our daily lives—which ice cream to choose, what research projects to pursue, which partner to marry—require an exploration of alternatives before committing to and exploiting the benefits of a particular choice. Furthermore, many decisions require re-evaluation, and further exploration of alternatives, in the face of changing needs or circumstances. That is, often our decisions depend on a higher level ch…

  • The physics of optimal decision making

    Rafal Bogacz, Eric Brown et al.ARTICLEPsychological Review2006

    In this article, the authors consider optimal decision making in two-alternative forced-choice (TAFC) tasks. They begin by analyzing 6 models of TAFC decision making and show that all but one can be reduced to the drift diffusion model, implementing the statistically optimal algorithm (most accurate for a given speed or fastest for a given accuracy). They prove further that there is always an optimal trade-off between speed and accuracy that maxi…

  • An Integrative Theory of Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine Function

    Gary Aston-Jones, Gary Aston‐jone et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Neuroscience2005

    Historically, the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system has been implicated in arousal, but recent findings suggest that this system plays a more complex and specific role in the control of behavior than investigators previously thought. We review neurophysiological and modeling studies in monkey that support a new theory of LC-NE function. LC neurons exhibit two modes of activity, phasic and tonic. Phasic LC activation is driven by the o…

  • The Vulcanization of the Human Brain

    Open AccessJonathan D CohenARTICLEThe Journal of Economic…2005Cited by: 9References: 52

    Emotions may explain inconsistencies in human behavior and forms of behavior that some have deemed irrational, though such behavior may seem more sensible after a discussion of the functions that emotions serve-or may have once served in our evolutionary past. People do have the capacity to override emotional responses. This capacity relies in large measure on the most recently evolved parts of our brains that support forms of behavior that are m…

  • Decision making, the P3, and the locus coeruleus--norepinephrine system

    Sander Nieuwenhui, Sander Nieuwenhuis et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2005Cited by: 19References: 205

    Psychologists and neuroscientists have had a long-standing interest in the P3, a prominent component of the event-related brain potential. This review aims to integrate knowledge regarding the neural basis of the P3 and to elucidate its functional role in information processing. The authors review evidence suggesting that the P3 reflects phasic activity of the neuromodulatory locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system. They discuss the P3 lite…

  • Anterior Cingulate Conflict Monitoring and Adjustments in Control

    Open AccessJohn G Kerns, Jonathan D Cohen et al.ARTICLEScience2004

    Conflict monitoring by the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been posited to signal a need for greater cognitive control, producing neural and behavioral adjustments. However, the very occurrence of behavioral adjustments after conflict has been questioned, along with suggestions that there is no direct evidence of ACC conflict-related activity predicting subsequent neural or behavioral adjustments in control. Using the Stroop color-naming task…

  • Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex

    Open AccessM M Botvinick, Jonathan D Cohen et al.ARTICLETrends in Cognitive Sciences2004

  • Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

    Open AccessSamuel M McClure, David Laibson et al.ARTICLEScience2004

    When humans are offered the choice between rewards available at different points in time, the relative values of the options are discounted according to their expected delays until delivery. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined the neural correlates of time discounting while subjects made a series of choices between monetary reward options that varied by delay to delivery. We demonstrate that two separate systems are involved …

  • The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment

    Open AccessJerome D Greene, Joshua D Greene et al.ARTICLENeuron2004

  • For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything

    Open AccessSemir Zeki, Oliver R Goodenough et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Transactions of the…2004

    The rapidly growing field of cognitive neuroscience holds the promise of explaining the operations of the mind in terms of the physical operations of the brain. Some suggest that our emerging understanding of the physical causes of human (mis)behaviour will have a transformative effect on the law. Others argue that new neuroscience will provide only new details and that existing legal doctrine can accommodate whatever new information neuroscience…

  • The Neural Basis of Error Detection

    Nick Yeung, M M Botvinick et al.ARTICLEPsychological Review2004

    According to a recent theory, anterior cingulate cortex is sensitive to response conflict, the coactivation of mutually incompatible responses. The present research develops this theory to provide a new account of the error-related negativity (ERN), a scalp potential observed following errors. Connectionist simulations of response conflict in an attentional task demonstrated that the ERN--its timing and sensitivity to task parameters--can be expl…