A. Ross Otto
 Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
rotto@mail.utexas.edu | office: SEA 5.130D  
 
  • » Current Projects:
    •    Decision Making
       in Dynamic Environments
    •    Reinforcement Learning Models
    •    Motivational Influences on
        Decision Making and Classification
    •    Behavioral Ramifications
        of Trait Impulsivity

     
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    Publications

       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 ]

    Conference Presentations

       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 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1252-1257). Cognitive Science Society.  [ pdf ]

    Manuscripts Under Review / In Preparation

       Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., Gureckis, T.M., & Love, B.C. (under review) Regulatory Fit and Systematic Exploration in a Dynamic Decision-Making Environment.

       Otto, A.R., & Love, B.C. (under review) You Don't Want To Know What You're Missing: The Impact of Foregone Rewards when Long- and Short-Term Choices Conflict.

       Otto, A.R., Markman, A.B., & Love, B.C. (in preparation) Impulsivity and optimal choice in dynamic environments.

    Poster Presentations

        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 presetented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA. November 2009.  [ pdf ]

       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.

    Talks

       Otto, A.R., (2009, July) Regulatory Fit and Systematic Exploration in a Dynamic Decision-Making Environment. Department of Psychology, Princeton University & Department of Psychology, NYU.

       Otto, A.R., (2009, April) Taking More, Sooner: Impulsivity and Choice in Dynamic Environments. Social and Personality Area Seminar, Department of Psychology, University of Texas.

       Otto, A.R., (2008, December) What you do know can hurt you: Evaluating the Role of State Knowledge in a Dynamic Decision-Making Task. Cognition and Perception Area Seminar, Univeristy of Texas.

    Other

       Otto, A.R. (2005). Category Learning through Attention Modification: A Connectionist Model. Psychology honors thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.