Lecture: "The Neurobiological Mechanisms of Economic Choice"
"The Neurobiological Mechanisms of Economic Choice"
WHEN: Tuesday, January 17th at 12- 1:30PM (Reception and Lecture)
WHERE: Fisher Colloquium (Rafik B. Hariri Business School Building, room 490)
RSVP: RSVP required
DETAILS:
Paul Glimcher, Ph.D.
Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics, New York University
Would you be more likely to place a bet on a risky stock if you were hungry? What, you ask, do hunger and the stock market have to do with each other? Plenty, it turns out, according to Paul Glimcher.
Professor Glimcher is the founding president of the Society for Neuroeconomics, a new field that interfaces neuroscience, psychology and economics. He examines brain circuitry, physiology, and behavior with methodologies ranging from single-neuron electrophysiology to game theory, in an effort to figure out how we apply values to options when making decisions.
Over the past decade enormous progress has been made towards understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human decision-making. Recent work has now succeeded in identifying the basic mechanisms by which we learn and represent the value of the options we consider in our choices, be they food, money, water, or social interactions. We also understand the basic mechanisms by which we and our nearest primate relatives choose amongst these options, selecting some and rejecting others. Professor Glimcher's talk will describe the confluence of Neurobiological, Psychological and Economic research over the past decade that has led to this Renaissance in our understanding of human decision-making now known as Neuroeconomics.
CONTACT: Please RSVP to neuronette@gmail.com
