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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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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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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Thomas LoFaro Clifford M. Swanson Professor of Mathematics, Gustavus Adolphus College Tom is the Clifford M. Swanson Professor of Mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. He became interested in the application of...
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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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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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Claudio T. Silva Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of EngineeringHead of Disciplines, Center for Urban Science and Progress Claudio Silva is a Computer Scientist specializing in Big Data Analytics. From 2003 to 2011, he...
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Jian Li Assistant Professor of Psychology, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University My research interests evolve around the questions regarding human affective learning (reward and punishment) and decision-making. More...
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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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Ernst Fehr Professor of Economics and Director of UBS International Economics, University of Zurich Ernst Fehr is a global distinguished visiting professor here at NYU. Ernst visits NYU for 6 weeks out of the academic year. When not at NYU...
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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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