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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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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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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Ariel Rubinstein Professor of Economics I am a professor of Economics at Tel Aviv and New York universities (and I feel strongly attached to the University of Tel Aviv Cafes). My main field of research is Economic Theory (in particular, Decision...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dino Levy Assistant Professor, Recanati Business School, Tel-Aviv University dinolevy@post.tau.ac.il https://dinolevylab.tau.ac.il/ I am an assistant professor at Recanati Business School, Tel-Aviv University and the head of the Neuroeconomics...
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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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