Nathaniel Daw Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute I study how people and animals learn from trial and error (and from rewards and punishments) to make decisions, combining computational, economic, neural, and behavioral perspectives. I...
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Catherine Hartley Assistant Professor of Psychology cate@nyu.edu Learning lays the foundation for motivated behavior, enabling us to anticipate and respond adaptively to salient events. Research in my lab focuses on characterizing the diverse...
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Bijan Pesaran Associate Professor of Neural Science bijan@nyu.edu Cerebral cortex contains a mosaic of brain areas that are connected to form distributed networks. In frontal and parietal cortex, these networks are specialized for movements such...
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David Heeger Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Vision, fMRI david.heeger@nyu.edu Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow ProfessorProfessor of Psychology and Neural Science I received my Ph.D. in computer science from...
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Yael Niv Associate Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute Research in the Niv lab focuses on the neural and computational processes underlying reinforcement learning and decision-making — the ongoing day-to-day processes by which we learn...
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Zheng Zhang Professor of Computer Science Zheng Zhang is professor of computer science at NYU Shanghai. He also holds an affiliated appointment with the Department of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and with the...
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Andrew Caplin ISDM Director,Professor of Economics My Ph.D. at Yale was supervised by Professors William Nordhaus, Herbert Scarf, and James Tobin. The diverse intellectual make-up of the committee reflects my broad combination of interests, which...
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Paul Glimcher ISDM Director,Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology My postdoctoral training was in oculomotor physiology. Working with Prof. David Sparks researching the brainstem and mesencephalic nuclei that...
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Vicki Morwitz ISDM Associate DirectorProfessor of Business Leadership I am a faculty member in the Marketing Department of the Stern School of Business where I hold the Harvey Golub Professor of Business Leadership. In 2014 I was named a Fellow...
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Agnieszka Tymula Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney agnieszka.tymula@sydney.edu.au My research goal is to improve scientific understanding of how individuals make decisions. In my work I pose questions that cross traditional boundaries...
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Ifat Levy Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and Neurobiology ifat.levy@yale.edu My lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in humans, individual differences in these mechanisms, and the possible contribution of...
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David Cesarini Assistant Professor of Economics I am an assistant professor in the Economics Department’s Center for Experimental Social Science. I am an empirically oriented economist with interests in applied microeconomics, as well as...
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