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NU Neuroeconomics, Social, Cultural and Affective Neuroscience Workshop

 

Fall 2009

Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00pm

Swift Hall 231, Evanston Campus

 

 

Goals:

The purpose of this workshop is to foster interdisciplinary research at Northwestern that adopts a neurobiological approach to decision-making, including the social, cultural, economic and affective processes underlying decision-making and related behavior.  Additionally, the workshop aims to highlight the implications of this interdisciplinary research for global health and policy challenges (e.g., addiction, education, intergroup conflict resolution, justice, mental health stigma, poverty, prejudice, socioeconomic inequity). 

 

Student Organizing Committee:

Bobby Cheon – Psychology (bobbycheon2012@u.northwestern.edu)

Vani Mathur -Psychology (v-mathur@northwestern.edu)

Katie Rotella – Psychology (katierotella2013@u.northwestern.edu)

Note: If you are interested in presenting or attending this group meeting, please contact the student organizers.

 

Faculty Sponsors:

Dr. Ryan Brown – Asst Prof, Human Development and Social Policy

Dr. Joan Y. Chiao – Asst Prof, Psychology

Dr. Camelia M. Kuhnen – Asst Prof, Finance

Dr. Jennifer Richeson – Assoc Prof, Psychology

 

Get Involved:

If you wish to receive updates regarding future meetings of the workshop, you may want to add yourself to our mailing list, NEUROECONOMICS @listserv.it.northwestern.edu. Only members of the group can send messages to the list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.it.northwestern.edu without any subject line. Type the following command in the message: SUBSCRIBE NEUROECONOMICS YourFirstname YourLastname

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Schedule of Presentations:

 

Date

Topic

Papers

Speakers

09/23/2009

TBA

 

 

9/25-9/27

Society for Neuroeconomics Conference

For more information: http://www.neuroeconomics.org/conference, held at the Hotel Orrington in Evanston

 

10/07/2009

Culture and the Visual Brain

 

Joshua Goh

10/21/2009

Cancelled

 

 

11/04/2009

How Does the Human Brain Deal with Uncertainty?

Kording & Wolpert (2004). Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning.  Nature, 427, 244-247.

 

Knill & Pouget (2004). The Bayesian brain: the role of uncertainty in neural coding and computation. Trends in Neuroscience, 427, 712-719.

Iris Vilares

11/18/2009

Exposure to Subtle Bias and Inequity Aversion

Knoch & Fehr. (2006). Diminishing reciprocal fairness by disrupting the right prefrontal cortex. Science, 314, 829-832.

Jennifer Richeson

12/02/2009

TBA

 

 

12/16/2009

TBA

 

 

8/2/2010-8/5/2010

The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Annual Conference. For more information: http://sabe2010.org

One of the conference themes is behavioral economics and neuroscience. All interested participants are encouraged to submit a proposal for a single paper and/or a session.

 

 

Suggested Reading:

Articles discussed at previous meetings:

2008-2009

2007-2008

·         Charness, G. and Levin, D. (2005). When optimal choices feel wrong: A laboratory study of bayesian updating, complexity, and affect, American Economic Review, 25(4), 1300-1309.

 

Related Links:

At Northwestern:

Cells2Society (C2S)

Institute for Policy Research (IPR)

Interdisciplinary Center on the Science of Diversity (CSD)