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Conference: Neuroeconomics and the Biological Basis of Economics
NOTE: The conference schedule has been updated and will now run for only two days, May 6 - 7.
Organized by professor Arthur Robson, the two-day in-person conference will be held at Simon Fraser University's Vancouver Campus - Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver.
A Royal Society of Canada fellow and leading researcher in the field of evolutionary economics, Robson is single-handedly organizing this conference, bringing together top researchers from around the world to speak on their research on neuroeconomics. A relatively new interdisciplinary field, neuroeconomics combines the studies of economics, psychology, and neuroscience to study our decision-making and economic choices.
Conference schedule
Friday, May 6
| 9:00 - 9:30 am | Coffee |
| 9:30 - 10:10 am | Jan Drugowitsch Predicting Visual Fixations from Attention-Modulated Normative Decision-Making |
| 10:10 - 10:50 am | Cendri Hutcherson Choosing, Fast and Slow: Implications of a Prioritized Sampling Model for Choice Under Time Pressure |
| 10:50 - 11:20 am | Coffee |
| 11:20 - 12:00 pm | Rafael Polania Rational Sensing: From Insects to Rodents to Humans to Machines |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:40 pm | Ryan Webb A Neuro-Autopilot Theory of Habit: Evidence from Canned Tuna |
| 2:40 - 3:20 pm | Cary Frydman Cognitive Imprecision: Evidence from Games and Risky Choice |
| 3:20 - 3:50 pm | Coffee |
| 3:50 - 4:30 pm | Yuval Heller Evolutionary Foundation for Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion |
| 4:30 - 5:10 pm | Ryan Oprea Evolution as a Source of Behavioural Hypotheses in Economics: The Case of Aggregate Risk |
| 5:10 - 5:50 pm | Jakub Steiner Consumer Theory in the Dark |
Saturday, May 7
| 9:00 - 9:30 am | Coffee |
| 9:30 - 10:10 am | Paul Glimcher Theoretical and Empirical Allocation of Stochasticity in Noisy Choice Systems |
| 10:10 - 10:50 am | Agnieszka Tymula Behavioural and Neural Evidence on Probability and Value Coding in Monkeys and Humans |
| 10:50 - 11:20 am | Coffee |
| 11:20 - 12:00 pm | Kenway Louie Asymmetric and Adaptive Reward Coding via Normalized Reinforcement Learning |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:40 pm | Nick Robalino Adaptive Cardinal Utility |
| 2:40 - 3:20 pm | Nick Netzer Endogeous Risk Attitudes |
| 3:20 - 3:50 pm | Coffee |
| 3:50 - 4:30 pm | Philipp Sadowski An Evolutionary Perspective on Updating Risk and Ambiguity Preferences |
| 4:30 - 5:10 pm | Erol Akçay Conditional Norm Following and Social and Epidemiological Dynamics |
| 5:10 - 5:50 pm | Larry Samuelson The Evolution of Risk Attitudes with Fertility Thresholds |