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Annual Conference on Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain

Our annual conference, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, aims to promote interdisciplinary collaborations and discussions on topics lying at the intersection of the brain and decision sciences in the hopes of advancing both theory and research in decision making.  To this end, we welcome involvement by all researchers interested in these and related topics, including reward, learning, emotion, and social behavior to name but a few. Our meeting embraces a wide breadth of research; please feel free to download abstracts and other material from our previous conferences below.

2013 Annual Conference

Event Dates
Call for Abstracts Opens
April 5th
Talk Abstracts Due
May 30th
Poster Abstracts Due
July 25th
Conference Registration Opens
 May
  • SPECIAL SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM

    September 26th, 2013 at EPFL

    Organized by Carmen Sandi, BMI, EPFL, Lausanne & Lorenz Goette (HEC, Lausanne)

     

    “Stress and Social Economic Decision Making”

     

    Description: Stress is a ubiquitous phenomenon in humans’ social environment that can have important consequences both for individuals as well as for society at large. Stress has a major impact on brain function and behaviour, and a wealth of research shows how both chronic and acute stress impact on memory and cognition. Less is known about how stress affects economic judgements, despite a recent surge in research aiming to uncover the neural basis for economic decision making.

    The goal of this Symposium is to address the link between stress and social economic decision-making by bringing together leading scientists from the fields of economics, psychology and neuroscience. Experts on stress, emotion, psychopathology and behavioural and neural economics will present their experimental approaches. The symposium includes an overview of current research as well as a debate on where more research is needed, and emphasis is placed on discussions and interactions. There will be a poster session during lunch and coffee breaks and an aperitif for all participants at the end of the symposium.

     

    Confirmed Speakers include: Lorenz Goette (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Jack van Honk (Utrecht University, Netherlands), Brian Knutson (Stanford University, USA), Antonio Rangel (Caltech, USA), Carmen Sandi (EPFL, Switzerland), Oliver T. Wolf (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany).

     

    Registration is limited and information is forthcoming. You can find more information here:

     

    http://ssbb2013.epfl.ch/

 

2012 Annual Conference

 

Conference Program

Final Program 2012

Talk Abstracts

Poster Schedule - Session I 

Poster Schedule - Session II

Abstracts: Session I

Abstracts Session II

 

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics  

Neuroscience Workshop

Sponsored by the Behavioral and Social Neuroscience PhD program at the California Institute of Technology

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Social and Decision Science Workshop

Sponsored by the Zell Center for Risk Research at the Kellogg School of Management


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Pharmacological tools for Neuroeconomists
Benedetto De Martino, University College of London and Caltech
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Computational psychiatry and the problems of
phenotyping cognitive function
P. Read Montague, Virginia Tech & UCL

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Why not reinforcement learning?
Yael Niv, Princeton University
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Game theory for cognitive neuroscientists
Colin Camerer, Caltech
Slides

 

Location & Accommodations

The official conference hotel is the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami and all sessions will take place there.

 

Registration Fees

Your registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks on all three conference days and the annual Society for Neuroeconomics Friday-night banquet dinner!  It also includes admission to all workshops, general and special sessions, lectures, and all other conference events.

  Early-bird Discounted Rate
(Register before Aug 30)
Registration Fee
(After Aug 30)
Nonmember $585 $605
Regular Member
$400 $425
Student/Postdoc
Member
$315 $340

Additional Sponsors

 

NYU CNE     


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  Sponsor neural foundations symposium      Caltech Dinner sponsor logo

 

ICES George MasonCenter for Emotion Research at Freie Universität Berlin

 

 

 

U of Minnesota              U of Oregon

 

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NYU Center for Neuroeconomics

The Kavli Foundation

The Caltech Laboratory for Experimental Finance

The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute for Economic and Management Sciences at Caltech

Anonymous Sponsorship from a Friend of the Society

Center for Emotion Research at Freie Universität Berlin

The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University

University of Minnesota Department of Economics

Emory University Center for Neuropolicy

University of Oregon Department of Economics

Duke Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Science (D-CIDES)


2011 Annual Conference

September 30th to October 2nd in Evanston, Illinois.

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics  

Neuroscience for Social Scientists

Sponsored by the Behavioral and Social Neuroscience PhD program at the California Institute of Technology
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Economics for Neuroscientists

Sponsored by the Zell Center for Risk Research at the Kellogg School of Management
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What the $#$!#$is the orbitofrontal cortex doing up there!?!
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, University of Maryland
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Modeling one-choice tasks, two-choice tasks, and confidence with diffusion models
Roger Ratcliff, Ohio State University
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Linking experimental manipulations, brain responses, and behavior with multilevel mediation analysis
Tor D. Wager, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Monocular versus binocular views of recent research on the neural substrates of decision making
Reid Hastie, University of Chicago
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Other Events
  • Traditional Friday evening bonfire by the lake, sponsored by NYU's Center for Neuroeconomics       NYUCNE_toplogo.gif
  • Bring a jacket, it might be chilly by the Lake!
  • Women in Neuroeconomics speaking panel and networking cocktail reception Saturday evening
  • Student Lunch with President Scott Huettel and President-elect Peter Bossaerts
  • Special Panel Discussion with neuroeconomic researchers led by Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig: "Conveying Science to the Media: What You Need to Know about Journalists and What They Need to Know about You"
  •  The 2nd annual Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecture at this year's conference will be given by Professor Antonio Damasio.
     
    The lecture will be given in the evening of Friday, September 30th.  See program for details
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Registration Fees

Your registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks on all three conference days and the annual Society for Neuroeconomics Friday-night banquet dinner!  It also includes admission to all workshops, general and special sessions, lectures, and all other conference events.

  Early-bird Discounted Rate
(Register before Aug 30)
Registration Fee
(After Aug 30)
Nonmember $585 $605
Regular Member
$400 $425
Student/Postdoc
Member
$315 $340

 

 

Other Information and Policies

Members of the media, please click here to view our media policy before registering

Guests are welcome to attend socials and meals for a fee.  You will have the option to register your guest(s) when you register online.

Publishers may host a table to distribute information or publications in the reception/registration area for a fee of $500.  Please contact us for details.

 

 

2010 Annual Conference

October 15-17, 2010 in Evanston, Illinois

 Our Conference was a success! See below for links to the program and the workshop slides. In addition, we had a lunch presentation on NIH and NSF funding opportunities. See below for links to the slides and handouts.

 

Special Lunchtime Presentation on Saturday October 16th, 2010
Federal Funding Opportunities for Neuroeconomics – A Roundtable Discussion with NIH and NSF Program Officers
James Bjork, Ph.D. - NIDA/NIH - Download Slides    Update: Additional Info
Lis Nielsen, Ph.D. - NIA/NIH - Download Slides
Jon Leland, Ph.D. - NSF - Download Slides

 

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics  

Neuroscience for Social Scientists
Sponsored by the

Behavioral and Social Neuroscience PhD program at the California Institute of Technology

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Economics for Neuroscientists

Sponsored by the
Zell Center for Risk Research at the Kellogg School of Management
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The neurobiology of dopamine
Paul Phillips, University of Washington
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Reference-dependent preferences
Botond Kőszegi, University of California Berkeley
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The role of dopamine in learning and decision making: Multiple levels of analysis
Michael Frank, Brown University
Axiomatic models of choice
Mark Dean, Brown University
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Other Events
  • Friday evening bonfire by the lake (sponsored by the New York University Center for Neuroeconomics)   NYUCNE_toplogo.gif
  •  Women in Neuroeconomics speaking panel and networking cocktail reception Saturday evening
  • We are pleased to introduce The Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecture at this year's conference, given in its first year by Professor Wolfram Schultz.
     
    The lecture will be given in the evening of Friday, October 15th.  See program for details
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Registration Fees

Your registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks on all three conference days; multiple hors d'oeuvre and cocktail receptions, and the annual Society for Neuroeconomics Friday-night banquet dinner!  It also includes admission to all workshops, general and special sessions, lectures, and all other conference events.

  Early-bird Discounted Rate
(Register before Sept. 25)
Registration Fee
(After Sept. 25)
Nonmember $585 $605
Regular Member
$400 $425
Student/Postdoc
Member
$315 $340

 

 

Other Information and Policies

Members of the media, please click here to view our media policy before registering

Guests are welcome to attend socials and meals for a fee.  You will have the option to register your guest(s) when you register online.

Publishers may host a table to distribute information or publications in the reception/registration area for a fee of $500.  Please contact us for details.

 

 

Previous conferences:

2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

September 25-27, 2009

Evanston, Illinois

Download 2009 Program-in-Brief

Download 2009 Program and Abstracts

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics

Neuroscience for Social Scientists
Economics for Neuroscientists
Neural circuit models of decision making
Xiao-Jing Wang, Yale University
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Decision making under uncertainty: Theory and evidence
Peter Bossaerts, California Institute of Technology
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Neurogenetics
Pate Skene, Duke University
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Economic theory of consumer behavior
Antonio Rangel, California Institute of Technology
Download slides

 Session Titles

  • Social Decision Making
  • Social Reward
  • Value Systems
  • Emotion and Decision Making
  • Temporal Discounting
  • Computational Neuroeconomics
  • Uncertainty

 

 

2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

September 25-28, 2008

Park City, Utah

Download 2008 Program-In-Brief

Download 2008 Program and Abstracts

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics

Neuroscience for Social Scientists
Economics for Neuroscientists
Combining signals from EEG  and fMRI
Greg McCarthy, Yale University
Core processes underlying economic decision-making: What can we learn from the behavioral & neurobiological study of non-human animals
Peter Shizgal, Concordia University
What TMS can(not) prove - lessons from its applications to the visual cortex.
Shin Shimojo, Caltech
Foraging theory and the behavioral ecology of animal decision-making
David Stephens, University of Minnesota

 Session Titles

  • Social Factors in Decision Making
  • Individual and Lifespan Differences
  • Valuation I: Non-risky and Multiple Attributes
  • Valuation II: Risky Attributes
  • Learning: From Rodent to Human

 

 

2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

September 27-30, 2007

Nantasket Beach, Hull, Massachusetts

Download 2007 Program-in-Brief

Download 2007 Program and Abstracts

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics

Neuroscience for Social Scientists
Economics for Neuroscientists
Computational Neuroanatomy
Bruce Fischl, Harvard Medical School
A birds' eye view of the evolution of key methodological aspects of experimental economics
Guillaume Frechette, New York University
Neuroimaging for Neuroeconomics
Randy Buckner, HHMI, Harvard University
Strategies for economic experiments: Some pitfalls and insights
Muriel Niederle, Stanford University

 Session Titles

  • Social and Contextual Factors in Decision Making
  • Risk
  • Aversive Processing
  • Cognition and Economic Behavior
  • Value and Preference
  • Trust and Cooperation

 

 

2006 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

September 7-10, 2006

Park City, Utah

Download 2006 Program-in-Brief

Download 2006 Program and Abstracts

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics

Neuroscience for Social Scientists
Economics for Neuroscientists
The other neuroeconomics: Single neuron studies in awake behaving primates
Michael Platt, Duke University
Game theory for neuroeconomists
David Levine, Washington University in St. Louis
Brain anatomy
Paul Glimcher, New York University
Experimental methods in game theory
Teck-Hua Ho, UC Berkeley

  Session Titles

  • Loss Aversion
  • Risk
  • Prospect Theory
  • Time
  • Marketing
  • Learning
  • Choice
  • Sociality

 

 

2005 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

September 15-18, 2005

Kiawah Island, South Carolina

Download 2005 Program-in-Brief

Workshops in the Foundations of Neuroeconomics

Neuroscience for Social Scientists
Economics for Neuroscientists
The physics of fMRI
Souheil Inati, New York University
Neoclassical foundations of expected utility theory
Colin Camerer, Caltech
fMRI data analysis
Scott Huettel, Duke University
Behavioral economics
Eric Johnson, Columbia University

 Session Titles

  • Choice Amongst Lotteries: Cognition and Perception
  • Constructing Value
  • Games
  • Risk and Salience
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