Benjamin Y. Hayden

 

 

hayden@neuro.duke.edu

Phone: (425) 749-2341

Fax: (919) 668-0335

http://www.benhayden.com

 

 

Room B353, Levine Science Research Center

Research Drive

Duke University

Durham NC, 27710

 

                                                                                                                                                           

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

Post-doctoral fellow (laboratory of Michael Platt)

Duke University

Nov 2005 – Present

Durham, NC

 

Post-doctoral fellow (laboratory of Jack Gallant)

University of California, Berkeley

June 2005 – Oct 2005

Berkeley, CA

 

Ph.D. (Molecular and Cell Biology, advisor: Jack Gallant)

Thesis title: Mechanisms of working memory, attention, and decision in visual area V4

University of California, Berkeley

 

August 2000 –May 2005

Berkeley, CA

 

B.A. (Chemistry)

Rice University

August 1996 – May 2000

Houston, TX

 

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(for reprints, please visit http://www.benhayden.com/pub.html)

 

David V. Smith, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Trong-Kha Truong, Allen Song, Michael Platt and Scott A. Huettel

Distinct value signals in anterior and posterior ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience (2010) in press.

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Neurons in anterior cingulate cortex multiplex information about reward and action

Journal of Neuroscience (2010) in press.

 

John M. Pearson, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sridhar Raghavachari, and Michael L. Platt

Neurons in posterior cingulate cortex signal exploratory decisions in a dynamic multi-option choice task

Current Biology (2009) vol. 19 (18), p 1-6

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

The mean, the median, and the St. Petersburg Paradox

Judgment and Decision Making (2009) vol. 4 (4), p. 256-273.

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, John M. Pearson, and Michael L. Platt

Fictive learning signals in anterior cingulate cortex

Science (2009) vol. 324 (5929) p. 948-950. PMID 19443783.

New York Times: ÒIn that tucked tail, real pangs of regret?Ó http://www.benhayden.com/pub/nytimes.pdf

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, David V. Smith, and Michael L. Platt

Electrophysiological correlates of default-mode processing in macaque posterior cingulate cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2009) vol. 106 (14) p. 5948-5953. PMID 19293382.

Faculty of 1000 Biology evaluation: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1161820/evaluation

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Gambling for Gatorade: risk-sensitive decision making for fluid rewards in humans

Animal Cognition (2009) vol. 12(1) p. 201-207. PMID 18719953.

 

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Jack L. Gallant

Combined effects of spatial and feature-based attention on responses of V4 neurons

Vision Research (2009) vol. 49(10) p. 1182-1187 PMID 18619996.

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Amrita C. Nair, Allison N. McCoy, and Michael L. Platt

Posterior cingulate cortex mediates outcome-contingent allocation of behavior

Neuron (2008) vol 60(1) p. 19-25. PMID 18940585.

 

 

Stephen V. David, Benjamin Y. Hayden, James A. Mazer, and Jack L. Gallant

Attention to stimulus features shifts spectral tuning of V4 neurons during natural vision

Neuron (2008) vol 59(3) p. 509-521. PMID 18701075.

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sarah R. Heilbronner, Amrita C. Nair, and Michael L. Platt

Cognitive influences on risk-seeking by rhesus macaques

Judgment and Decision Making (2008) vol. 3(5) p. 389-395. NIHMSID 71864.

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Purak C. Parikh, Robert O. Deaner, and Michael L. Platt

Economic principles motivating social attention in humans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2007) vol. 274(1619) p. 1751-1756. PMID 17490943.

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Temporal discounting predicts risk sensitivity in rhesus macaques

Current Biology (2007) vol. 17(1) p. 49-53. PMID 17208186.

 

Stephen V. David, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Jack L. Gallant

Spectral receptive field properties explain shape selectivity in area V4

Journal of Neurophysiology (2006) vol. 96(6) p. 3492:3505. PMID 16987926.

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Jack L. Gallant

Timecourse of attentional modulation reveals differences in mechanisms of spatial and feature-based attention

Neuron (2005) vol. 47(5) p. 637-643. PMID 16129394.

 

Yuxi Fu, Kaj Djupsund, Hongfeng Gao, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Kai Shen and Yang Dan.

Temporal Specificity in the Cortical Plasticity of Visual Space Representation

Science (2002) vol. 296 p. 1999-2003. PMID 12065829.

 

CHAPTERS AND PREVIEWS

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Risky decisions and fictive learning: case studies on the difficulties of integrating evidence from fMRI and electrophysiology in cognitive neuroscience

In Attention and Performance (2010), Robbins and Delgado, editors

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden

Neuroethology of Vision

In Primate Neuroethology (2009), Platt and Ghazanfar, editors

 

Sarah R. Heilbronner, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Michael L. Platt

Neuroeconomics of risk sensitive decision making

In Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting (August, 2009)

Madden, Bickel, and Critchfield, editors

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Animal cognition: great apes wait for grapes

Current Biology (2008) 17:21

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Cingulate Cortex

New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Elsevier (2008)

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, blame ACC

Nature Neuroscience 2006 9:7 857-859

 

 

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION OR UNDER REVIEW

 

John M. Pearson, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Michael L. Platt

Explicit information reduces impulsivity in monkeys

           

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Jack L. Gallant

Working memory and decision processes in area V4: evidence for highly distributed processing of complex cognitive functions

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden and Michael L. Platt

Task-switching signals in macaque posterior cingulate cortex

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sarah R. Heilbronner, and Michael L. Platt

Ambiguity aversion in monkeys

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sarah R. Heilbronner, and Michael L. Platt

Neural correlates of variables related to risky decisions in ACC

 

Sarah R. Heilbronner, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Michael L. Platt

Context-dependent decision signals in posterior cingulate cortex

 

RECENT ABSTRACTS

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sarah R. Heilbronner, and Michael L. Platt

The role of anterior cingulate cortex in self-control

Poster at the Society for Neuroeconomics Conference, Park City, Evanston, Illinois (2009)

And Society for Neuroscience Conference, Chicago, Illinois (2009)

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sarah R. Heilbronner, and Michael L. Platt

Ambiguity-sensitive neurons in macaque anterior cingulate cortex

Poster at the Society for Neuroeconomics Conference, Park City, Utah (2008)

 

Sarah R. Heilbronner, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Michael L. Platt

Responses of single neurons in posterior cingulate cortex in three reward-based tasks

Poster at the Society for Neuroeconomics Conference, Park City, Utah (2008)

 

John M. Pearson, Benjamin Y. Hayden, Michael L. Platt

Single neurons in CGp predict explore/exploit decisions in a dynamic foraging task

Talk at the Society for Neuroeconomics Conference, Park City, Utah (2008)

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden, Sarah R. Heilbronner, and Michael L. Platt

Ambiguity-sensitive neurons in macaque anterior cingulate cortex

Talk at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, Washington, D.C. (2008)

 

David V. Smith, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Michael L. Platt

Functional Dynamics of ÔDefault ModeÕ in Macaque Posterior Cingulate Cortex

Poster at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, Washington, D.C. (2008)

 

GRANTS

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden (2010-2015)

Dopamine and the Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Executive Processes

NIDA K99 027718-01

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden (2008-2010)

The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in reward-guided decision-making

NIDA Kirschstein NRSA 023338-01

 

 

 

Benjamin Y. Hayden (2005-2006)

Neural mechanisms of reward-based decision-making

Duke Translational Neuroscience Fellowship

 

HONORS

 

Young Investigator Award (Sept, 2009)

Society for Neuroeconomics

 

Best post-doc talk (March, 2009)

Department of Neurobiology Retreat

Duke University Medical School

 

Valedictorian (May, 2005)

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California Berkeley

 

INVITED TALKS

 

Monitoring an uncertain world: cingulate cortex

University of Pennsylvania, August 2009

 

Uncertainty, monitoring, and the cingulate cortex

Yale University Medical School, May 2009

 

Cingulate cortex monitors outcomes of risky decisions

NIMH, October 2008

 

What causes risk sensitivity among primates?

Economics for Apes Conference,

Max Planck Institute Leipzig, July 2007

 

Attention, working memory, and decision in V4

Oxyopia Seminar, Dept Vision Sciences

University of California Berkeley, January 2005

 

 

OTHER ACTIVITY

 

Co-creator, Neurotree website (http://www.neurotree.org) with Stephen V. David

 

Co-director, Duke Neuroeconomics Journal Club (2006-2007) with Bethany Weber

 

Director, Duke Center for Neuroeconomic Studies Summer Journal Club (2007-2008)

 

Coordinator, Duke Center for Neuroeconomic Studies Major Speaker Series (2007-present)