A Cognitive Science Workshop on Perception and Choice
March 7, 2014 — 8:45 am - 5:30 pm — Edward P. Evans Hall, Room 2400
The aim of the Yale Workshop on Perception and Choice (YWPC) is to explore the usefulness (or not) of drawing analogies between the nature of perceptual judgments and choices among actions. Such analogies might seek to use perceptual mechanisms as models of the psychological or neural mechanisms involved in decision making, or might use concepts developed for the normative study of choice and action (optimality, adaptation, statistical inference) to provide functional explanations for perceptual phenomena. YWPC will constitute as a first step in establishing a new foundation for work on human choice and judgment, creating a dialog that spans empirical domains and methodologies. YWPC will involve scholars from the neuroscience, psychology, economics, and broader cognitive science communities.
Registration: There will be no registration charge for YWPC. However, in order to ensure that we have space for all participants, we ask that you preregister.
The YWPC organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial and organizational support provided by the Yale Department of Economics, the Yale Program in Cognitive Science, and the Yale School of Management.