Publications by Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Microgravity induces overconfidence in perceptual decision-making

Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Davide Scaramuzza, Christian Pfeiffer

Does gravity affect decision-making? This question comes into sharp focus as plans for interplanetary human space missions solidify. In the framework of Bayesian brain theories, gravity encapsulates a strong prior, anchoring agents to a reference frame via ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Anterior insula reflects surprise in value-based decision-making and perception

Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Kerstin Preuschoff

The brain has been theorized to employ inferential processes to overcome the problem of uncertainty. Inference is thought to underlie neural processes, including in disparate domains such as value-based decision-making and perception. Value-based decision- ...

2020

Information Theoretic Characterization of Uncertainty Distinguishes Surprise From Accuracy Signals in the Brain

Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Kerstin Preuschoff

Uncertainty presents a problem for both human and machine decision-making. While utility maximization has traditionally been viewed as the motive force behind choice behavior, it has been theorized that uncertainty minimization may supersede reward motivat ...

2020

An Overview of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques for Organizational Research

Kerstin Preuschoff, Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a galvanizing tool for behavioral scientists. It provides a means by which to see what the brain does while a person thinks, acts, or perceives, without invasive procedures. In this, fMRI affords us a relatively eas ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2019

Belief as a Wise Wager : the Neural Representation of Uncertainty, Surprise and Confidence Across Cognitive and Perceptual Domains

Leyla Loued-Khenissi

From the moment we wake up in the morning to the day's ebb when we settle in to sleep, we are bound to the task of decision-making. Some of these decisions barely register in our consciousness, if at all, while others, less shy, take a more prominent place ...

EPFL2018

Acute stress alters individual risk taking in a time-dependent manner and leads to anti-social risk

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Samuel Bendahan, Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Fiona Hollis, John Christian Thoresen, Lorenz Goette

Decision-making processes can be modulated by stress, and the time elapsed from stress induction seems to be a crucial factor in determining the direction of the effects. Although current approaches consider the ﬁrst post-stress hour a uniform period, the ...

2017

Apathy and noradrenaline: silent partners to mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease?

Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Kerstin Preuschoff

Purpose of review Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a comorbid factor in Parkinson's disease. The aim of this review is to examine the recent neuroimaging findings in the search for Parkinson's disease MCI (PD-MCI) biomarkers to gain insight on whether MC ...

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins2015