- 20 Aug 2011 The Society for Neuroeconomics will hold its annual meeting on September 30th - October 2nd, 2011 in Evanston, IL. The Society for Neuroeconomics promotes global interdisciplinary discussion on topics lying at the intersection of the brain and decision sciences in hopes of advancing both theory and research. The meeting is attended by scholars of all levels from all areas of neuroeconomic research including the fields of economics, psychology, and neural science, as well as by leaders in fields such as finance and medicine. To learn more and to register, please click on this link.
- 18 Aug 2011 Hilke gave a tutorial to PhD students and interested faculty on Decision Neuroscience at the University of California at San Diego, USA.
- 15 Aug 2011 We have a new group member! Julia Behrend joined the Lab as a new Master student from the Ecole Normale Superieure. Find out more about Julia here.
- 31 May-4 June 2011 Hilke talked about the neural processes underlying regulatory self-control during food choice at a small but very good consumer behavior conference in La Londe.
- 23 May 2011 We have a new group member! Christina Wolf does an internship with us over the summer prior to studying psychology in Germany. To find out more check out the visitor section.
- 19/20 May 2011 Todd Hare, Assistant Professor, Lab for Social Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, Zurich University and PI Neuroeconomics Group (http://www.sns.uzh.ch/researchgroupsandstaff/hare.html) came and gave a follow-up workshop on functional connectivity, in particular Dynamic Causal Modeling.
- 04/05 April 2011 Todd Hare, Assistant Professor, Lab for Social Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, Zurich University and PI Neuroeconomics Group (http://www.sns.uzh.ch/researchgroupsandstaff/hare.html) came and gave a workshop on functional connectivity, in particular PPI analysis.
- 25 March 2011Hilke talked about the sense and non-sense to use brain imaging for obesity research at the “Obésité, santé et société : recherches et convergences” conference for the French presidential plan on fighting obesity held In Paris, France. You can download a video here
- 9 Feb 2011 Hilke gave an intro on how to get started with eprime organized by INSEAD’s Learning Innovation Center. You will also see Monica talking about a different software. You can download a podcast here.
- 1 Feb 2011 Hilke was selected to be one of the “leading researchers in France that make a difference to cognitive science” by the magazine “The new waver”, edited by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. For more details please check out “Bright Sparks” in the press section here
- 4 Feb 2011 Our group published a new working paper that gives a critical overview on the state of the art of consumer neuroscience. You can download it here
- 20 Nov 2010 Our group started to interact with the Duke NUS cognitive neuroscience group in Singapore to start investigating decision-making in cultural neuroscience context.
- 13 Oct 2010 A swiss science show called “specimen” was aired demonstrating how it is possible to change someone’s behavior with simple manipulation techniques. Hilke was interviewed and explained one of her experiments (min 23:00). To see the show click here: http://www.tsr.ch/emissions/specimen/2360663-specimen.html
- 8 Sep 2010 A new paper has been published from our group in the Journal of Neuroscience:“Aversive goal values are negatively encoded in the medial orbitofrontal cortex at the time of decision-making”, Journal of Neuroscience, 30 (32), 10799-808. For an abstract see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20702709
- 18 Aug 2010 The Max Planck Institute for Human Development organizes a Decision Neuroscience Workshop “Decision Neuroscience - From Neurons to Societies” in Berlin in September. More information: http://www.decisionneuroscience.de
- 20 July 2010 The Decision Neuroscience Community has lost one of its greatest supporters this week: With great sadness we would like to announce that Prof. Flemming Hansen unexpectedly passed away. He built the first Decision Neuroscience Lab in Denmark in the Marketing Department of the Copenhagen Business School. His contributions for the field are not countable and he was a great inspiration for our community. Flemming was a generous, goodhearted man who will be never be forgotten. "Life is Eternal, and love is Immortal and death is only a horizon; Nothing save the limit of our Sight." - R. W. Raymond
- Upcoming & NOT to miss: Association for Consumer Research annual conference in Jacksonville, USA (7-10 Oct 2010); The Society for Neuroeconomics annual meeting in Evanston, USA (15-17 Oct 2010)
- 7-19 June 2010 Summer School on Neuroeconomics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, that Beth attended: An Exciting Joint Venture' by the Cognitive Science Center of the University of Amsterdam was organized to honor the work of Ernst Fehr and to engage students in fascinating topics relevant to Neuroeconomics, such as the sense and nonsense of this field, the potential applications of Neuroeconomics, the contributions of this field at the micro- and macroeconomic levels, and interpreting the recent financial crisis from a Neuroeconomic perspective (more information: http://www.csca.nl/csca/summer-school/general-information/).
- 6-10 June 2010 16th Annual Conference of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping in Barcelona, Spain: HBM draws attendance of several thousand attendees in the field of neuroimaging each year and continues to be one of the most significant conferences in the field. Hilke presented her joint work with A. Rangel and Nina Mazar on the neural correlates of cost proc
essing (more information: http://www.humanbrainmapping.org).
- 2 June 2010 6th Invitational Conference on Intellectual Captital, World Bank, Paris, France: Hilke gave a talk on how decision neuroscience can inform public policy in the area of obesity.
- 12-16 May 2010 Choice Symposium, UMiami, Key Largo, USA: A session on Decision Neuroscience was organized by Carloyn Yoon, Baba Shiv, and Rich Gonzales that Hilke attended. The outcome of the group’s discussion will be published in a review paper and will be available soon (more information: http://www.bus.miami.edu/events/choice-symposium/index.html)
- 7 May 2010 University of Southern California, USA: Hilke gave a talk on the group’s work on the neural basis of goal values and their cognitive regulation in the Marketing Seminar and a introduction into to Decision Neuroscience for PhD Students at the Marshall School of USC.
- 5 May 2010 New paper available online ahead of print: A. Litt, H.Plassmann, B. Shiv, A. Rangel, ”Dissociating Valuation and Saliency Signals during Decision-Making”, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20444840
- 30 April 2010 ENP Workshop on Computational Models of Cognitive Function in Paris, France with prominent speakers such as John O’Doherty and Michael Shadlen that Beth was helping to organize.
- 1 Feb 2010 University of Thuebingen, Germany: Hilke gave a talk on the group’s work on the neural basis of value-based decision-making in the Neuroscience Colloquium at the Hertie Stiftung.
- 15 Jan 2010 Wharton, UPenn, USA: Hilke gave a talk on the group’s work on the neural basis of value-based decision-making in the Marketing Seminar at Wharton.
- 21-23 Aug 2009 Summer Workshop on Decision Neuroscience organized by our group jointly with Carolyn Yoon from UMichigan, James Bettman, Duke University, and Joe Kable, UPenn to bring together researchers and graduate students from neuroscience, behavioral decision making and marketing (more information: http://www.bus.umich.edu/Conferences/DecisionNeuroscience).
