Connectionists: Announcement: Third Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 29-30 May 2013

[Mehdi Khamassi]

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Dear colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the Third Symposium on Biology 
of Decision Making which will take place in Paris on May, 29-30th 2013.
The deadline for registration and poster submission is on April, 28th.

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THIRD SYMPOSIUM ON BIOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING (SBDM 2013)
May 29-30, 2013, Paris, France
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital La Pitié Salpétrière, 47 Bd 
de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
http://sbdm2013.isir.upmc.fr
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PRESENTATION:
The Third Symposium on Biology of Decision Making will take place on May 
29-30, 2013 at the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital La Pitié 
Salpétrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France. The 
objective of this two day symposium is to gather people from different 
research fields with different approaches (economical, behavioral, 
neural and computational approaches) to decision making. The symposium 
will be a single-track, will last for 2 days and will include 4 
sessions: Neuro-Physiology, Neuro-Systems, Neuro-Computations and 
Decision-Theory (Economics and Ethology).
Please circulate widely and encourage your students and postdocs to attend.
More information coming soon, including a call for poster submissions.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (more to be announced):
Hagai Bergman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Alain Berthoz (Collège de France)
Rafal Bogacz (Bristol University, UK)
Erie Boorman (Oxford University, UK)
Giorgio Coricelli (CNRS / École Normale Supérieure, France)
Michael J Frank (Brown University, France)
Emmanuel Guigon (CNRS / UPMC, France)
David Hansel (CNRS / Université René Descartes, France)
Masaki Isoda (Kansai Medical University, Japan)
Ian Krajbich (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Samuel McClure (Stanford University, USA)
Yael Niv (Princeton University, USA)
Geoffrey Schoenbaum (NIDA-IRP, USA)
Wolfram Schultz (Cambridge University, UK)
Hidehiko Takahashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Taiki Takahashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Frans de Waal (Emory University, USA)
Jeffrey Wickens (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

IMPORTANT DATES:
March 18, 2013 Early Bird Registration
April 28, 2013 Deadline for Registration and Poster Submission
May 29-30, 2013 Symposium Venue

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Thomas Boraud (CNRS, Bordeaux, France)
Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde (La Sorbonne, Paris, France)
Kenji Doya (OIST, Okinawa, Japan)
Mehdi Khamassi (CNRS, Paris, France)
Mathias Pessiglione (ICM - INSERM, Paris, France)

CONTACT INFORMATION :
Website, registration, poster submission and detailed program:
http://sbdm2013.isir.upmc.fr
Contact: sbdm2013 [ at ] isir.upmc.fr

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Mehdi Khamassi, PhD
Researcher (CNRS)
Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (UMR7222)
CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Pyramide, Tour 55 - Boîte courrier 173
4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
tel: + 33 1 44 27 28 85
fax: +33 1 44 27 51 45
cell: +33 6 50 76 44 92
http://people.isir.upmc.fr/khamassi