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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">The final program
with talk titles is now available online, for the Eighth
International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making (SBDM),
which will take place in Paris on May 21-23th 2018: </span><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><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></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<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>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><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>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">In addition, we
announce a new satellite workshop on May 24th on "</span>Learning
and decision-making at the interface between Neuroscience,
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.":
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?perma=1520611011">http://sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?perma=1520611011</a>.
Registration is free, but needs to be made online (see link on the
webpage) because of a limited number of seats. <br>
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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>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Best regards</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">The SBDM
organizing committee</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span> </p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
BIOLOGY OF DECISION MAKING (SBDM 2018) </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">May 21-23, 2018, Paris, France </span></font></p>
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UPMC, France.</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">PRESENTATION: </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">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></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">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></font></p>
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The conference will include 6 sessions:</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">"Learning about the structure of the
world to make decisions" (Chair: Chris Summerfield);</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">"Constructing and deconstructing
subjective value" (Chair: Lesley Fellows);</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">"The neuroscience of moral
decision-making" (Chair: Miriam Teschl);</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">"Decision-making across cultures and
species" (Chair: TBD);</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">"Dealing with uncertainty:
exploration and curiosity" (Chair: TBD);</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">"Development and decision-making"
(Chair: TBD);</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">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>
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
New"">Léon Tremblay (INSERM, France)</span><span
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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style="font-size: 10pt;">IMPORTANT DATES: </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">April 15, 2018 Deadline for Poster
Submission</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">May 01, 2018 Notification of Poster
Acceptance </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">May 21-23, 2018 Symposium Venue </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: </span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">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></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">ICM-UPMC Team: Roeland Heerema, Mehdi
Khamassi, Fanny Lachat, Mathias Pessiglione.</span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">ENS Team: Etienne Koechlin, Marine
Magne.</span></font></p>
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