Ross Otto, Graduate Student
Ross Otto
 Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
rotto@utexas.edu | office: SEA 5.130D  
 
 
 

Journal Articles

   Otto, A.R., Gershman, S.G., Markman, A.B., & Daw, N.D. (submitted). The Curse of Planning: Dissecting multiple reinforcement learning systems by taxing the central executive.

   Otto, A.R., Knox, W.B., Markman, A.B., & Love, B.C. (in preparation). Behavioral and Physiological Signatures of Belief-based Exploratory Choice.

   Gershman, S.G., Markman, A.B., & Otto, A.R. (submitted). Retrospective Revaluation in Sequential Decision Making: A Tale of Two Systems.

   Worthy, D.A., Otto, A.R., & Maddox, W.T. (in press). Working-Memory Load and Temporal Myopia in Dynamic Decision-Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. [ pdf ]

   Knox, W.B.*, Otto, A.R.*, Stone, P.H., & Love, B.C. (2012). The Nature of Belief-Directed Exploratory Choice in Human Decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 398.   [ pdf ]   [*equal contribution]

   Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., & Love, B.C. (2012). Taking More, Now: The Optimality of Impulsive Choice Hinges on Environment Structure. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(2), 131-138. [ pdf ]

   Otto, A.R., Taylor, E.G., & Markman, A.B. (2011). There are at Least Two Kinds of Probability Matching: Evidence from a Secondary Task. Cognition, 118, 274-279. [ pdf ]

   Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., Gureckis, T.M., & Love, B.C. (2010). Regulatory Fit and Systematic Exploration in a Dynamic Decision-Making Environment.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36(3), 797-804. [ pdf ]

   Otto, A.R. (2010). Three Attempts to Replicate the Behavioral Sunk-Cost Effect: A Note on Cunha and Caldieraro (2009). Cognitive Science, 38(8). 1379-1383.  [ pdf ]

   Otto, A.R., & Love, B.C. (2010) You Don't Want To Know What You're Missing: When Information about Forgone Rewards Impedes Dynamic Decision Making. Judgment & Decision-Making, 5(1), 1-10.  [ pdf ]

   Otto, A.R., Gureckis, T.M., Markman, A.B., & Love, B.C. (2009). Navigating through Abstract Decision Spaces: Evaluating the Role of State Generalization in a Dynamic Decision-Making Task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 957-963.  [ pdf ]

Commentaries & Book Chapters

   Markman, A. B., & Otto, A. R. (2011). Cognitive systems optimize energy rather than information. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(4),. 207-208.  [ pdf ]

Conference Papers

   Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., Taylor, E.G. (2010). More than One Kind of Probability Matching: Evidence from a Dual-Task Paradigm. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 1715-1719). [ pdf ]

   Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., Gureckis, T.M. & Love, B.C., (2009). When things get worse before they get better: regulatory fit and average-reward learning in a dynamic decision-making environment. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1252-1257). Cognitive Science Society.  [ pdf ]

Presentations / Symposia

    Otto, Gershman, Worthy, & Hotaling (2011) Symposium: Computational, Neuroscientific, and Lifespan Perspectives on the Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. July 2011.

    Otto, A. R., Knox, W.B., Davis, T., Markman, A.B., Love, B.C. Anticipation- and Outcome-Related Skin Conductance Responses in an Exploration-Exploitation Task. Poster presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Poster presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Francisco, CA. April 2011.

    Otto, A.R., & Love, B.C. (2009) You Don't Want To Know What You're Missing: The impact of foregone rewards in a dynamic decision-making environment. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA. November 2009.

   Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., Love, B.C., & Gureckis, T.M. (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.

   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 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C, July 2008.