2026 SNE Annual Meeting Program
*Program may be subject to change
Welcome to the Preliminary Program for SNE 2026. We want to thank the Program Committee for their efforts in continuing to create a robust program for the meeting. We are excited for the opportunity to present an exceptional scientific program including invited speakers, workshops, orals and poster presentations.
We look forward to engaging in fruitful, constructive and open exchanges throughout the 3 days of the Meeting.
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PRE-EVENT SATELLITE SYMPOSIA
$40 – Advance registration is required to attend a pre-conference symposium (space is limited)
Registration – Society for Neuroeconomics
Hosted at Caltech in the Chen Neuroscience Research Building. More information to come
10:00-17:00
COGNITIVE ECONOMICS SYMPOSIUM
Ian Krajbich, University of California, Los Angeles
Ryan Webb, University of Toronto
Ryan Oprea, University of California, Berkeley
Rahul Bhui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00-17:00
13TH CONSUMER NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
Nikki Sullivan, London School of Economics and Political Science
Rahul Bhui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vinod Venkatraman, Temple University
8:45-9:00
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Cendri Hutcherson, SNE President
9:00-10:00
WORKSHOP I – SOCIAL AND DECISION SCIENCES
Cary Frydman – University of Southern California
Cognitive noise and economic decisions
A growing body of work in economics proposes that agents base their decisions on noisy, imprecise representations of the environment. This inherent cognitive noise helps explain anomalies in perceptual decisions, risky choice, and belief updating. The talk will begin with a brief overview of this literature and then turn to three economic applications in the areas of finance, judgment and decision-making, and game theory. The overarching theme is that modeling behavior based on an imprecise representation of the environment can help social scientists better predict individual economic decisions as well as strategic interactions.
10:00-10:15
TEA & COFFEE BREAK (Provided)
10:15-11:15
WORKSHOP II – NEUROSCIENCE
Daniela Schiller – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Abstracting trauma, time, and space: A neural architecture of experience
The stability of affective states, and the flexible transition between them, are a hallmark of well-being. How does the brain represent, track, and shift between affective states? The talk will describe a series of studies investigating naturalistic processes of real-life traumatic memories, time tagging of episodic events, and social interactions. A common thread across these studies is the role of the hippocampus in differentiating sad from traumatic memories, tagging present versus temporally removed events, and cognitive mapping. We examine these processes in individuals with PTSD and healthy volunteers, using ultra-high 7T neuroimaging, as well as intracranial recordings in the human brain. This line of research underpins the role of the hippocampus in systematically organizing memories to navigate life.
11:15-11:30
TEA & COFFEE BREAK (Provided)
11:30-12:45
ORAL SESSION I – RISKY DECISION-MAKING
Feng Sheng – Zhejiang University
Font size distorts loss aversion in risky choice
Qingyan Xiao – Shanghai International Studies University
Cognitive priority moderates risk attitude in self-other tradeoffs
Fadong Chen – Zhejiang University
Attribute latencies underlie heterogeneity in risk attitudes and behavioral anomalies
Aline Dantas – Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
A gut feeling: Effects of probiotics on human risk-taking behavior and its underlying EEG correlates
13:00-14:00
LUNCH (Provided)
13:00-14:00
PANEL with Adriana Galván, University of California, Los Angeles – Presented over lunch in Main Meeting Room (Optional)
14:15-14:45
POSTER SPOTLIGHTS I
Tavish Traut – University of Oxford
Social reward trading: Neural correlates of economic value during interactive exchange
Boxuan Song – Hitotsubashi University
Value computations in pro-environmental decision-making
Yi-Fei Hu – Brown University
Mental blueprints for representing social networks
Zheng Li – University of Melbourne
The co-evolution of decision and confidence processes at different levels of computational complexity
Giorgio Coricelli – University of Southern California
Belief over reward in human and AI competition
Shreya Sinha – New York University
Endogenizing the optimal cognitive capacity and utility: Value representation under costly precision
14:45-16:30
POSTER SESSION I
17:00-18:30
OPTIONAL OFF-SITE EXCURSIONS
Some fees may apply. Check for more information:
Excursions – Society for Neuroeconomics
18:30-20:00
OPTIONAL PUB MEET UP at Lucky Baldwins Pub
17 S Raymond Avenue, Pasadena
15-minute walk from the Hilton Pasadena Hotel
Food and beverage costs are the responsibility of individual participants
9:00-10:15
ORAL SESSION II – VALUE AND CHOICE
Hilke Plassmann – INSEAD
Gut microbiome similarity relates to neural and behavioural food representations
Xiaozhi Yang – University of Pennsylvania
Attribute-guided attention is an adaptive mechanism for efficient search during naturalistic decision-making
Kathy Shi – Yale University
Goals remap value and not choice
Veronika Wendler – University of Birmingham
Divergent gaze strategies in decisions from experience and description
10:15-10:30
TEA & COFFEE BREAK (Provided)
10:30-11:30
SPEED NETWORKING
11:45-13:00
ORAL SESSION III – METHODOLOGY AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Brenden Eum – University of Toronto
Why does neuroforecasting work? A random utility framework
Lorenzo Del Puppo – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Neural and peripheral signals forecast market price dynamics in endogenous experimental bubble markets
Amrita Lamba – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Social media and smartphone use predict blunted striatal reward response in early adolescence
Taekwan Kim – University College London
Reliable detection of longitudinal cognitive change in computational models
13:15-14:15
BUFFET LUNCH (Provided)
13:15-14:15
TRAINEE PANEL 2 – Presented over lunch in Main Meeting Room (Optional)
14:30-15:00
POSTER SPOTLIGHTS II
Shiang-Hung Hu – California Institute of Technology
Are there strategic thinking challenges in people with autism? Design of a battery of game theory experiments
Clara Bleuet – Paris Brain Institute
Mind your optimism: Effects of optimism biases in value-based dietary decision-making
Amanda Arulpragasam – Brown University
Transcranial magnetic stimulation improves anhedonia and goal-directed motivation in veterans with depression
Saurabh Bedi – University of Zurich
Multi-stage efficient coding of perception and value in goal-directed choice
Sarah Vahed – Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Psychological and computational evidence that merit is a constructed evaluative process
Ruoying Zheng – University of California San Diego
Beyond hedonic reward: Image multiplication disassociate liking and aesthetic value
15:00-16:45
POSTER SESSION II
17:00-18:00
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Carlos Brody – Princeton University
Towards using large-scale, cross-brain neuronal recordings to identify the brain’s internal signals
Neuroscience studies often link neural signals to external referents such as sensory stimuli or overt motor acts. Simultaneous recordings across neurons and brain regions open the possibility of examining how neural signals relate to each other and thus detect signals internal to the brain that are not time-locked to external referents. We argue that, as a field, we should consider the possibility that a substantial portion – perhaps most – neural activity could be composed of such internal signals.
19:00-22:00
CONFERENCE DINNER
Off-site; more details to follow
9:00-10:15
ORAL SESSION IV – SOCIAL DECISION-MAKING
Tobias Kalenscher – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Increased generosity in effort-based social discounting after human basolateral amygdala damage
Bo Shen – Chinese Academy of Sciences
Interpretable LLMs explain socioeconomic decisions via symbolic models
Yeon Soon Shin – Bryn Mawr College
Dopamine enhances sensitivity to the consequences of actions in predicting others’ moral behavior
Kenway Louie – New York University
Oxytocin modulates dynamic social behavior via inhibitory decision circuits in the lateral septum
10:15-10:30
TEA & COFFEE BREAK (Provided)
10:30-10:45
AWARD CEREMONY
10:45-11:15
POSTER SPOTLIGHTS III
Francesca Walsh – Oregon Health & Science University
Willingness to pay and preferential choice signatures in early sensorimotor EEG signals
Yi-Chuang Lin – California Institute of Technology
Decision metrics reveal stable clinical dissociations in longitudinal approach-avoidance conflict
Ziqi Fu – University of Toronto
Why does starting feel harder than continuing? Effort dynamics across task engagement
Marc-Lluís Vives – Leiden University
The unique value of surprising perfect predictions in reinforcement learning
Jae-Chang Kim – University of Oxford
Long-lasting motivational and neural effects of preceding salience prediction errors
Junsong Lu – University of California San Diego
A normative model of delay discounting across the lifespan
11:15-13:00
POSTER SESSION III
13:15-14:15
BUFFET LUNCH (Provided)
13:15-14:15
ROUNDTABLE SESSION – Presented over lunch in Main Meeting Room (Optional)
14:30-15:45
ORAL SESSION V – LEARNING AND BELIEF UPDATING
Qianying Wu – California Institute of Technology
Neuro-computational mechanisms underlying the integration of observational and experiential learning
Zhongyu Xu – University of Melbourne
The information-computation gap: Computational complexity of belief updating predicts quality of human beliefs
Rohan Rao – University of Oxford
Distinct frontal interactions underlie diverse behavioral strategies during adaptive learning
Jordan Deakin – University of Hamburg
Tracking hierarchical belief updating via fixation-evoked potentials in multi-attribute decisions