Jeffrey Erlich Assistant Professor of Neuroscience jerlich@nyu.edu How is tempestuous neural activity, driven by internal dynamics and external sensory input, resolved into coherent behavior? Animals (especially human animals) have many...
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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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Jay Van Bavel Associate Professor of Psychology jay.vanbavel@nyu.edu Jay Van Bavel is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University and Director of the Social Perception and Evaluation Laboratory. Jay completed his PhD at 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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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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Glenn Saxe Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Director, The Child Study Center I am the Arnold Simon Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as the Director of The Child Study Center at NYULMC...
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Adam Brandenburger J.P. Valles Professor Adam Brandenburger holds appointments at New York University as J.P. Valles Professor at the Stern School of Business, Distinguished Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, and Faculty Director of...
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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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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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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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Xiao-Jing Wang ISDM Associate Director,Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor of Neural Science Xiao-Jing Wang is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at NYU Shanghai, and Professor of Neural Science at New York University...
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Daphna Shohamy Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University Daphna Shohamy is an associate professor in the department of Psychology at Columbia University and a member of Columbia University’s Kavli Center for Brain Science. Work in...
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