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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Wei Ji Ma Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology I started out as a theoretical physicist, before realizing that I wasn’t very good at that and that I found the brain more interesting. Like many physicists, I switched to...
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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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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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Guillaume Frechette Professor of Economics My interests revolve around the testing of economic models, mostly having to do with Industrial Organization and Political Economy. This has led me to work on bargaining and infinitely repeated games. I...
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Stephen Ross Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at Bellevue Hospital, Clinical Director of the NYU Langone Center of Excellence on Addiction,Director of the NYU Addiction...
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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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Sukbin Lim Assistant Professor of Neural Science, NYU Shanghai Sukbin Lim is an assistant professor of neural and cognitive sciences at NYU Shanghai. She obtained her Ph.D. at New York University. Her postdoctoral work was in the Center for...
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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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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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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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Li Li Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology Li Li is an Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she was an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Hong...
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