Connectionists: Wokshop on INFORMATION PROCESSING AND BEHAVIORAL VARIABILITY - Columbia Univ - 12 May 2017

[Rava A. da Silveira]

Workshop website:
http://econ.columbia.edu/workshop-information-processing-and-behavioral-variability

WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION PROCESSING AND BEHAVIORAL VARIABILITY

*Organizers: Rava da Silveira, Mark Dean and Michael Woodford*

Columbia UNiversity - 1501 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th
Street, New York, NY 10027

The Program for Economic Research at Columbia University will sponsor a
one-day interdisciplinary Workshop on Information Processing and Behavioral
Variability, to be held on May 12, 2017. The Workshop aims to bring
together economists, psychologists, neuroscientists and computer scientists
who have a shared interest in understanding the gathering, storage and
retrieval of information that occur when people make choices, and what this
implies for the modeling of economic behavior.

The morning session will be focused on models of the informational basis of
decisions, with particular emphasis on implications of the need to
represent an organism’s situation in a relatively compressed way, memory
constraints, and the role of sampling from memory in decision making. The
afternoon will instead focus on the causes of stochasticity in choice
behavior, with attention both to ways in which randomness in choice may
result from randomness in neural processes underlying choice, and ways in
which it can result from information constraints, and will consider the
degree to which such randomness limits the accuracy of decisions.



*Session 1:**  The Informational Basis of Behavior* *(Chair: Daphna
Shohamy, Columbia)*

9:00-10:00:  *Keynote lecture*: Randy Gallistel [Rutgers], "How Does
Experience Shape Behavior? A Minimum-Description-Length Theory of Learning"

10:00-10:40:  Arthur Robson [Simon Fraser], “Adaptive Hedonic Utility”

10:40-11:10: Coffee break

11:10-11:50:  Isabelle Brocas [USC], “A Neuroeconomic Theory of Memory
Retrieval”

11:50-12:30:  Neil Stewart [Warwick], “Decision by Sampling”

12:30-13:00:  General discussion

13:00-14:00: Lunch break



*Session 2:** Sources of Randomness in Behavior (Chair: Andrew Caplin, NYU)*

14:00-15:00:  *Keynote lecture*: Pedro Ortega [Google DeepMind],
“Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality”

15:00-15:40:  Luminita Stevens [Maryland], “Discrete Adjustment to a
Changing Environment: Experimental Evidence”

15:40-16:10: Coffee break

16:10-16:50:  Valentin Wyart [ENS, Paris], “Shared Computational Origin of
Human Choice Variability in Probabalistic Inference and Reward-Guided
Learning”

16:50-17:30:  Erin Rich [Icahn School], “Dynamic Neural Signatures of
Subjectivity in Choice"

17:30-18:00:  General discussion

18:00: Adjourn
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