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        EN-US" lang="EN-US">It is our great pleasure to announce the
        Eighth International Symposium
        on Biology of Decision Making (SBDM), which will take place in
        Paris on May 21-23th
        2018.</span></p>
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        EN-US" lang="EN-US">Registration and abstract submission for
        poster presentation are now
        open at </span><a href="http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr/"><span
          style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr/</span></a><span
        style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
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        EN-US" lang="EN-US">A novelty this year: online payment of
        registration fees through paypal
        is now possible. Alternative payment methods still include bank
        transfer, French
        bancal check and institutional “bon de commande”.</span></p>
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    <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
        style="mso-ansi-language:
        EN-US" lang="EN-US">The deadline for poster submission is: April
        15<sup>th</sup> 2018. The
        deadline for registration is: May 8<sup>th</sup> 2018.
        Registration fees (170
        euros) include lunches, coffee breaks and</span> social event.<span
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    <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
        style="mso-ansi-language:
        EN-US" lang="EN-US">Please circulate widely and encourage your
        colleagues and team members
        to attend.</span></p>
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        EN-US" lang="EN-US">Best regards</span></p>
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        EN-US" lang="EN-US">The SBDM organizing committee</span><span
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">EIGHTH
        INTERNATIONAL
        SYMPOSIUM ON BIOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING (SBDM 2018) </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">May
        21-23, 2018, Paris,
        France </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">ICM
        / ENS / Sorbonne
        Université / UPMC, France.</span></p>
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        href="http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr"><span
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">PRESENTATION:
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The
        Eighth International
        Symposium on Biology of Decision Making will take place on May
        21-23, 2018 in
        Paris, France. The objective of this three day symposium is to
        gather people
        from different research fields with different approaches
        (economics, ethology,
        psychiatry, neural and computational approaches) to
        decision-making. The
        symposium will be a single-track, will last for 3 days and will
        include 6
        sessions: </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The
        objective of this
        three-day symposium will be to gather people from different
        research fields
        with different approaches (psychology, economics, ethology,
        psychiatry, neural,
        behavioral, computational and robotics approaches) to decision
        making. </span></p>
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        The conference will include 6 sessions:</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">"Learning
        about the
        structure of the world to make decisions" (Chair: Chris
        Summerfield);</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">"Constructing
        and
        deconstructing subjective value" (Chair: Lesley Fellows);</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">"The
        neuroscience of
        moral decision-making" (Chair: Miriam Teschl);</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">"Decision-making
        across
        cultures and species" (Chair: TBD);</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">"Dealing
        with
        uncertainty: exploration and curiosity" (Chair: TBD);</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">"Development
        and
        decision-making" (Chair: TBD);</span></p>
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        SPEAKERS: </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">David
        Badre (Brown University, USA)<br>
        Helen Barron (University of Oxford, UK)</span><span
        style="font-size:7.5pt;
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      </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
        New"">Wouter van den
        Bos (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)<br>
        Coralie Chevallier (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS, France)<br>
        Julia Christensen (City University of London, UK)</span><span
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      </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
        New"">Anne Collins
        (Berkeley University, USA)<br>
        Molly Crockett (Yale University, USA)<br>
        Monique Ernst (NIH Bethesda, USA)<br>
        Lesley Fellows (McGill University / Montreal Neurological
        Institute and Hospital,
        Canada)<br>
        Berna Güroglu (Leiden University, The Netherlands)<br>
        Guy Kahane (University of Oxford, UK)<br>
        Etienne Koechlin (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS / INSERM,
        France)<br>
        Alizée Lopez-Persem (University of Oxford, UK)<br>
        Brad Love (University College London, UK)<br>
        Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA, France)<br>
        Drazen Prelec (MIT, USA)<br>
        Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford, UK)<br>
        Rava da Silveira (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS, France)<br>
        Dana Small (Yale University, USA)<br>
        David Smith (Temple University, USA) <br>
        Alireza Soltani (Dartmouth University, USA)<br>
        Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford / Google Deepmind, UK)<br>
        Shinsuke Suzuki (Tohoku University, Japan)</span><span
        style="font-size:7.5pt;
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      </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
        New"">Léon Tremblay
        (INSERM, France)</span><span
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        <br>
      </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
        New"">Charlie Wilson
        (INSERM, France)</span></p>
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        DATES: </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">April
        15, 2018 Deadline for
        Poster Submission</span></p>
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        01, 2018 Notification of
        Poster Acceptance </span></p>
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        08, 2018 Deadline for
        Registration </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">May
        21-23, 2018 Symposium
        Venue </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">ORGANIZING
        COMMITTEE: </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Kenji
        Doya (Okinawa
        Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)<br>
        Lesley Fellows (McGill Univ. / Montreal Neurological Institute
        and Hospital,
        Montreal, Canada)<br>
        Mehdi Khamassi (CNRS  / Sorbonne Université / UPMC, Paris,
        France)<br>
        Etienne Koechlin (CNRS  / Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,
        France)<br>
        Mathias Pessiglione (INSERM / ICM, Paris, France)<br>
        Chris Summerfield (Univ. Oxford / Google Deepmind,
        Oxford/London, UK)<br>
        Miriam Teschl (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
        Paris, France)</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">LOCAL
        ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">ICM-UPMC
        Team: Roeland
        Heerema, Mehdi Khamassi, Fanny Lachat, Mathias Pessiglione.</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">ENS
        Team: Etienne Koechlin,
        Marine Magne.</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">CONTACT
        INFORMATION :</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Website,
        registration,
        poster submission and detailed program: </span></p>
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        href="http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr"><span
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          "Courier New"">http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr</span></a><span
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Contact:
        sbdm2018 [ at ]
        isir.upmc.fr</span></p>
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