Speaker Series

The center's speaker series features invited guest speakers who are experts in various aspects of the decision sciences.

See the links on the side for the latest on what's coming up, including suggested readings. Join the CDS mailing list to be notified about upcoming meetings and topics. 

Cognition and Decision Seminar Series 

This semester sees the return of the Cognition and Decision Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from economics, psychology, neuroscience and other fields who are united by an interest in the cognitive mechanisms involved in decision making and related behavior, and the ways in which a better understanding of these mechanisms can lead to more accurate models of human behavior and more effective public policies. 

The seminar organizers are Mark Dean, Eric Johnson, Michael Shadlen, Daphna Shohamy, and Michael Woodford. The Cognition and Decision Seminar Series is jointly sponsored by the Cognitive and Behavioral Economics Initiative of the Department of Economics and the Center for Decision Sciences.

*Please note: As of Fall 2020, seminars are remote via Zoom. You MUST register to receive an email with a Zoom link and password* 

Past Seminars

Fall 2020

  • Dr. Ariel Zylberberg (University of Rochester) 

The Construction of Preferences During Deliberation Leading to a Decision 
October 15, 2020, 10:00 am., Zoom

 

Spring 2020

Learning to Infer: Algorithmic Approaches to Ecological Rationality
March 26, 2020, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

Memory and Representativeness 
February 25, 2020, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Uris Hall 142 

Fall 2019

  • Dr. Adam Sanborn (University of Warwick)  

Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities
September 26, 2019, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

The Strategic Brain under Risk in Games and Lotteries with FMRI
October 31, 2019, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Uris Hall 140

Spring 2019

  • Dr. Molly Crockett (Yale University)  

Moral Decision-Making: Conscience, Context, and Conformity
March 7, 2019, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

  • CANCELED: Dr. Adam Sanborn (University of Warwick)  

Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities
March 28, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

Fall 2018

Using Visual Saliency in Game Theory 
September 13, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  

Econographics 
November 15, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  

Resource-rational models of decision-making
November 29, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall 

Faces: A Window into Cognition 
December 6th, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Greene Science Center, 9th Floor Lecture Hall  

Other Seminars

Fall 2018

This talk is cosponsored by the Columbia Economics Program for Economic Research. 

The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case Law, Not Naive Science.
September 18, 2018, 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m, Warren 416

Fall 2017

Various approaches to online inference — human behavior and theoretical models​ 
November 9th, 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

Spring 2017 

The Role of Science and Attention in Choice Under Risk: An Experimental Investigation 
March 2 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 303

Neuronal Foundations of Economic Value 
April 6 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 301

Betwixt fast and slow: Integrating model-free and model-based decision-making 
April 27 2017, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 33

Fall 2016 

The brain’s functional network architecture reveals human motives
September 29, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

Normative decisions between more than two alternatives
October 20, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 301

  • Dr. Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 

A multisensory approach for understanding decision circuits​
December 8, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Warren 209

Spring 2016 

Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control:  Toward a Rational Explanation​
February 25, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

Regulatory Reform after the Crisis: Has the Financial System Become Safe?
March 8, 2016, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Uris 301

Strategizing and attention in games​
March 24, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

April 21, 2016, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 326

Fall 2015

Experimental Economics on Reward Neurons
September 21, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Uris 141

Myopia and Discounting 
November 4, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Warren Hall 208

Spring 2015

Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Self-Signaling 
February 5, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren Hall 

What is the role of the orbitofrontal cortex in reinforcement learning?
February 26, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren Hall

  • Dr. Tom Cunningham (IIES and California Institute of Technology) 

Hierarchical Aggregation of Information and Decision-Making
March 31, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 311 Warren Hall

  • Dr. Benedetto DeMartino (University of Cambridge) 

Imperfect choice and the brain: confidence in value-based judgments
April 30, 2015, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren Hall

Fall 2014

  • Dr. Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)

Intelligence and Social Behavior
September 22nd, 2014, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 326 Uris Hall

October 22nd, 2014, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Room 326 Uris Hall

November 20th, 2014, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. 207 Warren

Spring 2014

Decision Neuroscience Colloquium 
April 9th, 2014 - 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Uris Hall Faculty Lounge

Scarcity: A Talk for People Too Busy to Attend Talks
March 31, 2014

Spring 2013

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
April 4th, 2013 - 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Uris 301

  • Martin Weber (Uni Mannheim)

Time Inconsistent Preferences and the Annuitization Decision
April 4th, 2013 - 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm Uris 333

Spring 2012

  • Public Policy and Choice Architecture lecture series

Shlomo Benartzi (UCLA and SaveMoreTomorrow)
Save More Tomorrow: Practical Behavioral Finance Solutions to Improve 401(k) Plans
March 27th, 2012

David Hirshleifer (UC Irvine)
Self-Enhancing Transmission Bias and Active Investing
April 5th, 2012 (Special time 2:15-3:45pm - Uris 332)

  • Public Policy and Choice Architecture lecture series

Todd Rogers (Harvard and ideas42)
The Psychology of Voting: Increasing Turnout with Behavioral Science
April 11th, 2012

Fall 2011

  • Daniel Kahneman (Princeton)

Thinking, Fast and Slow
October 10th, 2011

  • Dan Goldstein (Yahoo! Research/London Business School)

Targeting and Diffusion with Social Networks
December 8th, 2011

Fall 2011

The neuroeconomics of complex choice: self-control and altruism
March 1st, 2012

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