Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
rotto@mail.utexas.edu | office: SEA 5.130D
- Decision Making
in Dynamic Environments - Reinforcement Learning Models
- Motivational Influences on Decision Making and Classification
- Sensory Modality and
Relational Memory
I'm a graduate student in my second year, co-advised by Art Markman and Brad Love. I have a potpourri of interests in higher-level cognition with respect to both empirical investigation and computational modeling.
Publications / Presentations
Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., & Love, B.C. (2008). What you do know can hurt you: Environmental state cues in a dynamic decision-making task. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the Society for Neuroeconomics. Park City, UT, September 2008. [ pdf]
Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., Love, B.C., & Gureckis, T.M. (2008). Regulatory Fit Effects in a Dynamic Decision-Making Task. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C, July 2008.
Otto, A.R. (2005). Category Learning through Attention Modification: A Connectionist Model. Psychology honors thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.