First Conference on Neuroscience and Economics

University of Minnesota

Friday, October 25 - Sunday,October 27, 2002


Picture of a human brain.

 

 

 
Conference Schedule:

The conference will take place in
Room L110 of the Carlson School of Management.

Friday
  12:00 Conference Welcome
  12:30 Auction Structure, Heart Rate, and Neuroeconomic Behavior

Kip Smith, Kansas State University
(with John Dickhaut)

  1:30 Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games:An Experimental Study

Miguel A. Costa-Gomes, University of York
(with Vincent P. Crawford)

  2:30 Break
2:45 Employing Labor Supply Theory to Measure the Reward Value of Electrical Brain Simulation
Peter Shizgal, Concordia University
(with Kent Conover)
  3:45 Self-Control and Consumption-Saving Decisions:Cognitive Perspectives

Alberto Bisin., New York University
(with Jess Benhabib)

  4:45 Impaired Decision-Making in Substance Abusers: Brain Imaging and Cognitive Modeling

Steven J. Grant, Div. Treatment Research & Development, NIDA
(with Katherine R. Bonson, Julie C.Stout, Jerome R. Busemeyer, Anli Lin)

Saturday Morning
  8:30 The Impact of the Certainty Context on the Process of Choice

John Dickhaut, University of Minnesota
(with Kevin McCabe, Jennifer Nagode,
Aldo Rustichini, Kip Smith, and José V. Pardo)

  9:30 Does Emotion Play a Useful or Disruptive Role in Economic Decisions?

Antoine Bechara, University of Iowa

  10:30 A Brain Imaging Study of Procedural Choice

Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota
(with John Dickhaut, Paolo Ghirardato,
Kip Smith, and José V. Pardo)

  11:30 Heuristics Used by Humans with Prefrontal Cortex Damage: Toward An Empirical Model of Phineas Gage

Dan Houser, George Mason University
(with Kevin McCabe and Antoine Bechara)

Saturday Afternoon
  1:30 Choosing Correctly Through Incremental Learning And Memory

José V. Pardo, University of Minnesota and Veterans Affairs
( with Jennifer C. Nagode and Elizabeth Hurliman)

  2:30 Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality: Some Research Opportunities

Ellen Peters,Oregon Research Institute
(with Paul Slovic)

  3:30 The Allocation of Attention: Theory and Evidence

Xavier Gabaix, MIT
(with David Laibson,Guillermo Moloche, and Stephen Weinberg)

  4:30 Dissociation Of Reward Anticipation And Outcome With Event-Related fMRI

Brian Knutson, Stanford University
(with Grace W. Fong, Charles M. Adams, Jerald Varner, and Daniel Hommer)

Sunday
  8:30 Unconscious Processing of a Sophisticated Task: Discovering the solution of a Game

Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota

  9:30 Cognition, Evaluation, and Pleasure: A Brain Processes Model of Decision-Making

Antonio Rangel, Stanford University
(with B. Douglas Bernheim)

  10:30 A Functional Imaging Study of Theory of Mind in Two-Person Reciprocal Exchange
Kevin McCabe, George Mason University
(with Daniel Houser, Lee Ryan,Vernon Smith, and Theodore Trouard)
  11:30 Roundtable discussion of issues that have been raised and potential areas of new discovery.

11/19/02