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Decision Making and the Brain 13TH ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM NEUROECONOMICS: DECISION MAKING AND THE BRAIN September 25 – 27, 2015 Miami, Florida Conrad Miami Hotel www.neuroeconomics.org PROGRAM AT A GLANCE Society for Neuroeconomics Program at a Glance Conrad Miami, Miami, FL Friday Saturday Sunday Time 25-Sep 26-Sep 27-Sep 8:00 Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast 8:15 (08:00 - 09:00) (08:00 - 09:00) (08:00 - 09:00) Lisbon Room, 3rd Floor 8:30 Lisbon Room, 3rd Floor Lisbon Room, 3rd Floor 8:45 Announcements 9:00 (09:00 - 09:20) 9:15 The Kavli The Kavli Session II Foundation Foundation Social (09:00 - 10:35) 9:30 Neuroscience and Decision Social preferences and strategic Workshop I Science Workshop I 9:45 interactions (9:00 -10:30) (9:00 - 10:30) Session V 10:00 Conrad Ballroom Vila Real, 2nd Floor (09:20 - 10:55) Finance and aging 10:15 10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break 10:45 (10:30 - 10:50) (10:35 - 10:55) 11:00 Poster Spotlights III (11:00 - 11:20) 11:15 The Kavli The Kavli Session III Foundation Foundation Social (10:55 - 12:05) 11:30 Neuroscience and Decision Valuation, risk and time preference 11:45 Workshop II Science Workshop II (10:50 - 12:20) (10:50 - 12:20) 12:00 Conrad Ballroom Vila Real, 2nd Floor Buffet Lunch Poster Session III Posters on Display (Session 3) (Session Display on Posters 12:15 (12:10 - 13:30) (11:25 - 13:25) Lisbon Room, 3rd Floor Registration Information / Desk Open 12:30 Boxed Lunch 12:45 Speed Networking (12:00) Buffet Lunch (12:15 - 12:45) 13:00 (12:30 - 13:45) (pre-registration only) Lisbon Room, 3rd Floor Vila Real Room, 2nd Floor 13:15 13:30 Posters on Display (Session 1) (Session Display on Posters Welcome & Opening Remarks 2) (Session Display on Posters 13:45 Registration Information / Desk Open Registration Information / Desk Open (13:50 - 14:00) Session IV 14:00 (13:30 - 14:40) Session VI Self Control and well-being (13:30 - 15:05) 14:15 Session I Learning and memory (14:00 - 15:10) 14:30 Consumer Behavior and Organizations 14:45 Poster Spotlights II 15:00 (14:45 - 15:05) Coffee Break 15:15 Poster Spotlights I (15:10 - 15:30) (15:15 - 15:35) 15:30 Coffee Break 15:45 (15:35 - 15:50) 16:00 16:15 16:30 Poster Session II (15:30 - 18:00) 16:45 Poster Session I 17:00 (15:50 - 18:00) 17:15 17:30 17:45 18:00 Cocktail Reception 18:15 (18:00 - 18:45) Session 8 Panel V Seidler Conrad Ballroom Pre-Function (15:00 - 17:00) 18:30 18:45 The 6th Annual Kavli Plenary Lecture 19:00 Dr. Ann Graybiel (18:45 - 20:00) 19:15 Conrad Ballroom 19:30 The Basal Ganglia: Heartland of 19:45 Neuroeconomics Dinner on Own 20:00 20:15 20:30 20:45 All Attendee Dinner (20:00 - 22:00) 21:00 Conrad Ballroom 21:15 21:30 21:45 TABLE OF CONTENTS About SNE 2 SNE Leadership . 2 General Conference Information 3 Annual Conference Schedule 5 The Kavli Workshops and Plenary Lecture . 5 Poster Sessions 14 Abstracts – In order of the presentations 23 OUR MISSION The mission of the Society for Neuroeconomics is to: Foster research on the foundations of economic behavior by promoting collaboration and discussion among scholars from the psychological, economic, and neural sciences. Ensure the continued advancement of the field of neuroeconomics by supporting young researchers. The Society promotes this mission through annual meetings for presentation of original theory and research, and through educational programs to promote development of a common language and set of methodological tools for the field . SOCIETY FOR NEUROECONOMICS SOCIETY FOR NEUROECONOMICS BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMITTEE LIST Officers Nominations Committee Camelia Kuhnen The University of North Alan Sanfey Radbound University Njmegen President Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona Paul Phillips The University of Washington Ian Krajbich Ohio State University President-Elect Eric Johnson Columbia University Eric Johnson Columbia University Early Career Awards Committee Immediate Past-President Ale Smidts Erasmus University Rotterdam Hilke Plassmann Department of Marketing, Brian Knutson Stanford University Chief Information INSEAD & Cognitive Officer Neuroscience Unit, Ecole Program Committee Normale Superieure Joe Kable University of Pennsylvania Ale Smidts Erasmus University Peter Bossaerts University of Melbourne Secretary/Treasurer Paul Phillips University of Washington Board Members Tali Sharot University College London Christian Ruff University of Zurich Colin Camerer California Institute of Greg Samanez-Larkin Yale University Technology Uma Karmarkar Harvard University Giorgio Coricelli University of Southern California Paul Glimcher New York University Joe Kable University of Pennsylvania Brian Knutson Stanford University Ian Krajbich Ohio State University Yael Niv Princeton University Elizabeth Phelps New York University Alan Sanfey Radboud University Njmegen and University of Arizona 2 Society for NeuroEconomics | September 25 – 27, 2015 | Miami, Florida GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION Meeting Venue Registration and information desk Conrad Miami Hotel The registration/information desk, located in the Espirito Santo Plaza, 1395 Brickell Avenue Conrad Pre-Function Hallway is open daily during Miami, FL 33131 conference session hours: Registration Friday, September 24 7:30 – 18:00 Saturday, September 25 7:30 – 18:00 The annual meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics Sunday, September 26 7:30 – 15:00 registration includes admission to all sessions, a printed abstract booklet, access to breakfast, coffee breaks, Wireless Internet lunches and The 6th Annual Kavli Plenary lecture and Complimentary wireless internet is available to the dinner as well as to all the sessions and workshops . delegates of the Society of Neuroeconomics Annual Kindly wear your name badge at all time as your Meeting . Please choose either the attwifi or hhonors admission to the sessions and meals . At the end of the networks and enter the code: SNE2015! Complimentary conference you are encouraged to recycle your badge wireless is available throughout the meeting rooms and at any of the recycle stations or registration desk when guest rooms of the hotel . you leave . Hotel Floor Plan Society for NeuroEconomics | September 25 – 27, 2015 | Miami, Florida 3 Miami Information Poster Session 1 Please visit the registration desk to pick up a copy of Set Up: Friday September 25, 2015 a Delegate’s Guide to Miami which includes maps of between 08:00 and 09:00 the surrounding areas, suggestions of things to visit Session Time: 15:50 – 18:00 and areas of interest . During the conference Miami is Tear Down: 18:00 – 22:00 also celebrating Miami Spice – when restaurants offer Poster Session 2 three-course meals featuring signature dishes created Set Up: Saturday September 26, 2015 by world-renowned chefs at reduced prices . A list of between 08:00 and 09:00 participating restaurants can be found on the Miami Session Time: 15:30 – 18:00 Visitors Bureau website (www.miamiandbeaches.com/ Tear Down: 18:00 – 20:00 special-offers/monthly-deals/miami-spice-month) . Poster Session 3 Staff Set Up: Sunday September 27, 2015 SNE staff from Podium Conference Specialists and between 08:00 and 09:00 the SNE administrative team can be identified by Session Time: 11:25 – 13:25 the orange ribbons on their name badges . Feel free Tear Down: 13:30 – 16:00 to ask any one of our staff for assistance, or visit the registration desk . Poster Sessions Please visit our poster presenters during the three poster sessions . Coffee and tea will be served immediately before the poster sessions on Friday and Saturday, please feel free to enjoy your beverage while enjoying the posters . The posters are spread amongst three rooms (the Porto, Faro and Algarve Rooms) and the hallway . Information on Poster Authors, Poster Numbers and Poster Titles begins on page 14 . For a complete copy of the poster abstracts, please see the appropriate section of the abstracts later in this program . 4 Society for NeuroEconomics | September 25 – 27, 2015 | Miami, Florida DETAILED PROGRAM Friday, September 25, 2015 The Kavli Foundation Neuroscience Workshop Conrad Ballroom, 3rd Floor SESSION I: The expected value of control: An integrative theory of motivation, effort 9:00 – 10:30 and controlled processing Jonathan Cohen Princeton University The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) has been a near-ubiquitous presence in three literatures directly relevant to the neuroscience of decision making; those on cognitive control, value-based decision making, and motivation . However, much less attention has been given to how its function in each of these domains may relate to its function in the others . In this talk I will describe a theory, inspired by a consideration of these literatures and the role that dACC plays within them, that addresses how value-based decisions impact and, in turn, are impacted by cognitive control . This theory posits that the primary function of dACC is to compute the expected value of candidate, control-demanding behaviors (the expected value of control, or EVC), and to select for execution (through the allocation of control) those that maximize this quantity . The theory builds on standard models of reward optimization (in both learning and decision making), taking into account the costs inherent to the allocation of control itself . It provides a coherent, and formally explicit framework for considering how the allocation of control — informed by a cost/benefit analysis of available options — impacts decision making and behavior . I will review behavioral and neuroscientific data in support of the theory, and present simulation results that demonstrate the model’s ability to capture many of these findings . 10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break SESSION II: Norepinephrine and neural gain 10:50 – 12:20 Mara Mather USC Davis School of Gerontology It has long been recognized that a key function of the locus coeruleus- norepinephrine system is to adjust the gain on information processing in the brain, such that increasing levels of norepinephrine under arousal are associated with amplification of ‘signal’ and suppression of ‘noise’ .
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