Pamela Butler Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Research Scientist, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research My main research focus is on psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia...
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Jess Benhabib Paulette Goddard Professor of Political Economy I obtained my Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1976. I have been at NYU since 1980, and I am currently the Paulette Goddard Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Arts and...
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Elizabeth A. Phelps ISDM Associate Director,Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science My research examines the cognitive neuroscience of emotion, learning and memory. My primary focus has been to understand how human learning and...
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Aristides A.N. Patrinos Chief Scientist and Director of Research, NOVIM aap11@nyu.edu Aristides A.N. Patrinos, Ph.D., is the Chief Scientist and Director of Research at NOVIM. Previously, he was the Deputy Director for Research of the Center for...
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Xinying Cai Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences I am an assistant professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences at NYU Shanghai. Originally trained in system science and control engineering at Zhejiang University in China, I became...
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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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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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Laurence T. Maloney Professor of Psychology and Neural Science In college, at Yale, I majored in mathematics with occasional courses in computer science and automata theory. After graduation, I spent six years as a systems programmer designing...
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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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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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Xavier Gabaix Professor of Finance My research focuses on behavioral economics, finance and macroeconomics. These days I am working particularly on developing basic modeling tools for behavioral economics.I’m developing a sparse matrix, that...
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Shih-Wei Wu Associate Professor, National Yang-Ming University As a graduate student at NYU, I worked with Larry Maloney on modeling how humans plan movements under risk and uncertainty. Intrigued by many results that reported near-optimal...
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