Face processing plays a central role in everyday life. Faces also represent a complex and rich class of stimuli that humans readily process, recognize, and make judgments on. Understanding how the brain represents and processes faces is not only important in its own right, but provides a valuable opportunity for studying how the brain selectively and efficiently implements sophisticated computational processes. In this talk, I will give an overview of our recent work modeling human face processing. We leverage sophisticated…
Find out more »Faculty Organizers: Suresh Naidu & Carlo Prato If you would like to attend this conference, press here to register by December 1, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Cohen at sc3867@columbia.edu. Program Friday, December 14, 2018 8:45-9:25 Light Breakfast 9:25-9:30 Introductions 9:30-10:35 German Gieczewski (Princeton), "Endogenous Experimentation in Organizations" (with Svetlana Kosterina) Discussion by Navin Kartik (Columbia) 10:35-10:50 Coffee break 10:50-11:55 Nancy Qian (Northwestern), "The Fluidity of Race: "Passing" in the United States, 1890-1940"" (with Nathan Nunn and…
Find out more »Moral Decision-Making: Conscience, Context, and Conformity Classical models of antisocial behavior propose that violence arises out of a failure of lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) to “put the brakes” on aggressive impulses originating in subcortical regions such as the amygdala and striatum. A new, alternative model proposes that LPFC does not directly inhibit aggressive impulses, but instead flexibly modulates the value of aggressive acts via corticostriatal circuits. I will present behavioral, pharmacological and neuroimaging experiments supporting the alternative model. The findings…
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