Professional Experience

1995-1997 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota
1997-2000 Assistant Profsesor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
2000-2006 Assistant Professor, University of Rochester
2006-2012 Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine
2012-present Professor, Yale University School of Medicine

Invited Conference Presentations

• Society for Neuroscience, Symposium on Neural Correlates of Primate Decision Making, Nov 8-12, 2003, New Orleans, LA.
• COE International symposium on attention and decision, May 19-21, 2004, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan
• Neurobiology of decision-making, May 22-25, 2005, Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
• Okinawa computational neuroscience course, July 1-10, 2005, Okinawa Japan
• Functional architecture and neuronal computations in the prefrontal cortex, Cosyne Workshop, March 9-10, 2006, The Canyons, UT
• Prefrontal cortex, working memory and flexible behavior, Kavli Symposium, May 4-5, 2006, New Haven, CT
• APS 18th Annual convention, May 27, 2006, New York, NY
• Reward and decision making in cortico-basal ganglia networks, June 1-4, 2006, Lake Arrowhead, CA.
• 22nd International symposium on attention and performance, July 2-8, 2006, Macon, France
• 10th Tamagawa-Riken Dynamic Brain Forum-DBF2007, March 5-9, 2007, Hakuba, Japan
• OIST Workshop on Cognitive Neurobiology, March 11-15, 2007, Okinawa, Japan
• Neural Bases of Reward and Decision Making, September 4-7, 2007, Institute Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC), Lisbon, Portugal (photos)
• New York University Center for Neural Science 9th Biennial Symposium on Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, January 11-13, 2008.
• Todai-Yale Initiative. Mind, Brain, and Society: Neurocognitive Approaches to the Social Sciences, April 25, 2008, New Haven, CT.
• World Science Forum 2008, April 28-30, 2008, Seoul, Korea.
• The Physiological Society's Annual Main Meeting, Symposium on The Neural Basis of Reward and Economic Decision Making, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 14-16, 2008.
• Evolution of Social Psychology Workshop, Cognitive Science Program, Yale University, November 7-9, 2008.
• RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, July 13-24, 2009.
• Perspective of decision neuroscience: beyond the biological approach of brain science. XXXVI International Congress of Physiological Sciences. Kyoto, Japan, July 27-August 1, 2009.
• Reward and decision making in the brain, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010. (photos)
• Frontal lobes 2010 Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2010.
• Workshop on Natural Environment, Tasks and Intelligence, University of Texas, Austin, 2010.
• Workshop on Computations, Decisions, and Movement, Castle of Rauischholzhausen, Germany, 2010. (photos).
• Neural circuits of decision making, Janelia Farm, March 6-9, 2011.
• Critical contribution of the orbitofrontal cortex to behavior, New York Academy of Sciences, March 30-April 1, 2011.
• Gordon Research Conference on Neurobiology of Cognition, Lucca, Italy, July, 2012.
• 28th Center for Visual Science Symposium on "Computational Foundations of Perception and Action", University of Rochester, June, 2012.
• 5th Reward and Decision Meeting, Hawaii. March 5-7, 2013
• Neuroeconomics: Recent advances and future directions. June 15-20, 2014. Erice, Sicily, Italy.

Publications

Media Coverage

• Guardian Unlimited: Monkey Puzzle: Rock, Paper, Scissors,...Banana? (September 25, 2007)
• Chosun Daily: Event News - Analysis of the consumer's brain helps marketing research (April 25, 2008)
• Donga Daily: Brain knows why you're selling good stocks (April 25, 2008)
• Chosun Daily: Secrets of "three-now-four-later" revealed (July 9, 2008)
• Science Daily: Brain Activity Encodes Reward Magnitude and Delay During Choice (July 11, 2008).
• Donga Daily: Mysteries of neurons (August 1, 2008)
• PBS Nighly Business Report: Your Mind and Your Money - Animal Instincts for Saving and Spending (March 15, 2010).
• Interview with ScienceOn (September 27, 2010). On Neuroscience and Cognition.
• Hankyoreh (Oct 6, 2010). Brain sciences influence humanities and social sciences.
• Hartford Courant / Seattle Times (May 25, 2011). Regrets: monkeys have them, too.
• io9 (May 25, 2011) Monkeys experience regret over a game of rock-paper-scissors.
• NBC / ZME Science (May 26, 2011) Monkeys have regrets, too
• Daily Mail (UK) (May 26, 2011) Monkey see, monkey D'OH!
• The West Australian (May 27, 2011) Regrets, I've had a few: monkeys.
• The Sydney Morning Herald (May 28, 2011) Regrets, they've had a few: monkeys offer science insights on depression.
• Time (May 31, 2011) Monkeys, like humans, make bad choices and regret them, too.
• MIT technology & review (July 27, 2011) Age-related memory loss reversed in monkeys.
• US News & World Report (July 27, 2011) Age-related memory loss may be reversible, animal study suggests.
• Time (July 27, 2011) Study: blood pressure drug may treat senior moments.
• Discover Magazine (July 27, 2011) Memory improves when neurons fire in youthful surroundings.
• National Geographic (July 28, 2011) Drug could make aging brains more youthful?
• ABC Science (July 28, 2011) Memory fails to fire in ageing monkeys.
• FOX News (July 28, 2011) Forgetful? The key may be to turn brain cells 'young' again.
• Daily Mail (UK) (July 28, 2011) Forget-me-not: memory loss could be reversible thanks to medical tweaks made to 'mental sketch pad'.
• Guardian (Junly 29, 2011) Drug for hyperactivity may help reverse memory decline in ageing brains.
• Donga Science (August 17, 2011) Which brain area makes trading decisions?
• Shin-donga (September, 2011) Economy ruled by those unlocking the secrets of the brain (interview).

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