NYU:CNE - Center for Neuroeconomics
In The News

News articles about Center for Neuroeconomics:

2009-2010 - Nathaniel Daw and Julia Trommershaueser organize a conference May 19 Ð 22, 2010 on "Computations, Decisions, and Movement". Click here for deadlines and more information" here

June 29, 2009 - Paul Glimcher talks on WNYC Radio Lab: 'Are We Coins?'
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June 2009 - Nathaniel Daw has been awarded a Young Investigator Award from NARSAD .


June 2009 - Nathaniel Daw receives a Scholar Award for 2009-2011 from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.


May 7, 2009 - The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT hosts a lecture series on "The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease" and features CNE director Paul Glimcher.


April 6-11, 2009 - Professor Liz Phelps joins with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and 9 other scientists, philosophers, scholars and contemplatives from North America, Europe and India in an intimate dialogue over 5 days entitled: Mind and Life XVIII: Attention, Memory and Mind: A Synergy of Psychological, Neuroscientific, and Contemplative Perspectives. To learn more click here . To see a picture of Liz and His Holiness, click here.


March 8, 2009 - The Guardian reports on postdoc Daniela Schiller, who led a study published in Nature Neuroscience on brain scans of first impressions. For the paper, see the list of publications from the Phelps lab.


January 2009 - CNE Professor Larry Maloney is named WICN Visiting Scholar of the Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales for 2009.


October 29,2008 - Professor Andrew Caplin contributes an Opinion article in the Wall Street Journal article.


October 27, 2008 - Paul Glimcher appears on BBC 4 radio feature titled "Money on the Brain". Download media file. (Approximately 27:45 running time).


October 23, 2008 - CNE Professor Andrew Caplin is featured on a public radio program: American Public Media: Marketplace , commenting on an alternative strategy for homeowners facing foreclosure in current economy.


October 1, 2008 - The first textbook on Neuroeconomics, edited by Paul Glimcher (NYU), Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr and Russell Poldrack, has been published by Elsevier and is NOW available at bookstores and online. It features chapters written by several CNE members.


October 2008 - Scholarpedia entry: Paul W. Glimcher (2008) Neuroeconomics. Scholarpedia. 3(10):1759


September 26, 2008 - BBC news (and other news sources) report findings from new study conducted by CNE professors Liz Phelps, Andrew Schotter, et al. which was published in the Sept 26, 2008 issue of Science journal. To read a summary of the study, click here


September 17, 2008 - Professor Liz Phelps was a key speaker in a NYAS symposium "The Neuroscience of Elections"  along with other NYU scientists. Check out Podcast here.


July 29, 2008 - Leading German daily newspaper Die Welt briefs latest neuroeconomic research in the Glimcher Lab.


June 30, 2008 - Newsweek section "Lab Notes" online features Professor Liz Phelps and her new study findings to be published in Nature Neuroscience


June 25, 2008 - ABC News online discusses Professor Nathaniel Daw’s study published in Neuron June 2008


June 2008 - Bijan Pesaran receives a Scholar Award for 2008-2010 from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.


March 2008 - CNE Professors Andrew Caplin and Andrew Schotter have published The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics (March 2008), the first book in their new series, which will aim to cover new advancements in methodologies of Economics.


February 16, 2008 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science elects Professor Paul Glimcher as a Fellow in Psychology.


January 15, 2008 - French daily newspaper Le Monde reports on NYU’s Neuroeconomics Symposium.


2008 - Professor Larry Maloney has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) for 2008-2009.


November 4, 2007 - News Release from Society for Neuroscience announces latest neuroeconomic research including that of NYU Center for Neuroeconomics researchers Professor Paul Glimcher, Postdoc Ifat Levy, and graduate student Peter Sokol-Hessner. A related article is also featured online at ScienceDaily.


September 2007 - Reputable financial journalist Jason Zweig mentions Center for Neuroeconomics researchers in his latest book.


June 6, 2007 - "A conversation about Neurolaw" with CNE’s Liz Phelps on Charlie Rose


October 31, 2006 - "Part One of the Charlie Rose Science Series: From Freud to the mysteries of the human brain" with CNE’s Liz Phelps on top New York interview show Charlie Rose


October 5, 2006 - Nature journal news feature interviews Professor Paul Glimcher along with neuroeconomists from other institutions.


September 18, 2006 - New Yorker reporter learns about Phelps Lab graduate student Peter Sokol-Hessner’s study.


2004 - Professor Paul Glimcher’s early neuroeconomic research is featured in research issue of NYU Today.


July 5, 2004 - Newsweek article on NYU’s Neuroeconomics research.


November 24, 2003 - National Institute of Health (NIH) Videocast on Professor Paul Glimcher’s first book on Neuroeconomics: Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain.


November 20, 2003 - British newspaper, Guardian, runs an article about neuroeconomics.


November 15, 2002 - Fox News feature: "The Big Story with John Gibson" An interview with Professor Paul Glimcher about Neuroeconomics.


National Public Radio feature - "Market Place Interview" with Professor Paul Glimcher


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