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Postdoc and PhD position in Decision Neuroscience at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Donders Institute Nijmegen
The Erasmus Centre for Neuroeconomics (ECNE) at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen announce openings for both a postdoctoral fellow and a PhD researcher to join an active group of researchers in the Centre in the field of decision neuroscience/neuroeconomics/consumer neuroscience. These positions will be jointly supervised by Prof. Ale Smidts (Erasmus) and Dr. Alan Sanfey (Donders Institute).
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 01-02-2010
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Ale Smidts featured on Dutch television
Ale Smidts, Professor of Neuromarketing, was featured in the VARA programme “Weet wat je koopt” (Know what you buy) on September 21, 2009. The programme explored the effects of casting celebrities in advertisements in order to promote products.
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21-09-2009
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Vacancy for Postdoc researcher in xDelia team
For the xDelia research project, we seek a researcher for the Postdoc position “Emotions and (Financial) Decision Making” at the Marketing department of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
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08-07-2009
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EU gives maximum score to research project xDelia
In the context of its 7th Framework Programme for Research & Development (FP7) the European Union has granted nearly € 350,000 to Erasmus University for its planned contribution to xDelia. Erasmus University contributes to this European project through its research expertise at the Erasmus Centre for Neuroeconomics and at the related facilities at the Erasmus Behavioural Lab.
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08-07-2009
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The symposium – “Dual processing: interplay between emotion and cognition in decision making” Chaired by Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University) Date: 21.06.2008 at 14.30, President Hotel, Moscow, Russia
There is considerable agreement among psychologist on the characteristics that distinguish the two types of cognitive processes, labeled System 1 and System 2 (e.g. Kahneman, 2003). The growing number of neuroimaging studies differentiate neurobiological networks underlying fast, automatic and often emotional processes from operations that are slower, serial, effortful, more likely to be consciously monitored and deliberately controlled. We would like to discuss the interaction of automatic emotional and cognitive processes underling human decision making and attitudes. During a round table meeting we will discuss neurobiological approaches to study automatic and cognitive mechanisms of decision making, social norms, biases and attitudes.
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19-05-2008
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Invited lecture “Neurocognition of perceptual decision-making” by Hauke Heekeren from Max Planck Institute for Human Development/Berlin Neuroimaging
Findings from single-cell recording studies suggest that a comparison of the outputs of different pools of selectively tuned lower-level sensory neurons may be a general mechanism by which higher-level cortical regions compute perceptual decisions. For example, when monkeys must decide whether a noisy field of dots is moving upward or downward, a decision can be formed by computing the difference in responses between lower-level neurons sensitive to upward motion and those sensitive to downward motion.
I will present fMRI evidence that even for high-level object categories, the comparison of the outputs of different pools of selectively tuned neurons could be a general mechanism by which the human brain computes perceptual decisions. I will argue that the posterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has general decision-making functions, independent of stimulus and response modalities. Finally I will present data on the influence of other variables such as prior probability and reward on the neural correlates of perceptual decision making.
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23-01-2007
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