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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
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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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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
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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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
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>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
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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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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><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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21-23, 2018, Paris,
France </span></p>
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/ ENS / Sorbonne
Université / UPMC, France.</span></p>
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href="http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr"><span
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</span></p>
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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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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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with
uncertainty: exploration and curiosity" (Chair: TBD);</span></p>
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and
decision-making" (Chair: TBD);</span></p>
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SPEAKERS: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">David
Badre (Brown University, USA)<br>
Helen Barron (University of Oxford, UK)</span><span
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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
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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(INSERM, France)</span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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(INSERM, France)</span></p>
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DATES: </span></p>
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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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21-23, 2018 Symposium
Venue </span></p>
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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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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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Team: Etienne Koechlin,
Marine Magne.</span></p>
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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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sbdm2018 [ at ]
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