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NEURO-CONNECT Tuesday Seminar - October 29th, 2024 12:15- 13:15 pm
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Dear all,
You are cordially invited to the next NEURO-Connect seminar, which will take place on October 29th at 12:15 at Campus Biotech.
The NEURO-Connect seminars replace the previous Brain & Cognition seminars and aim at presenting different areas of the neuroscience community in Campus Biotech, ranging from cognition and emotion to neurobiology and neuroengineering, with the support of all institutions active on the site, including the UNIGE (NEUFO, CISA, FPSE), NCCR Evolving Language, EPFL (Neuro-X), HUG, CIBM and Wyss Center, and with the support of the Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva. The NEURO-CONNECT seminars will take place twice a month, and the program of the coming trimester is attached here.
The next session will be hosted by CISA (UNIGE). The speaker will be Prof. Stefano Palmintieri (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale & École Normale Supérieure, Paris), with the talk “ Feedback-induced dispositional changes in risk preferences”. Please see abstract and other details below.
Private meetings with Prof. Palminitieri can be organized, and early career researchers (ECR, e.g., doctoral and postdoctoral) are encouraged to join the invited speaker for a networking lunch offered by the FCBG (15 spots, first-come, first-served). To indicate your wish to meet one-to-one with Prof. Palminitieri, or to register for the ECR lunch after the talk, please fill-in the following survey beforeWEDNESDAY 23rd OCTOBER 2024: https://formulaire.unige.ch/cisa/survey/index.php/521853?lang=en. This delay is needed to be able to properly organize the schedule and to order the correct number of meals in time. We thank you for your cooperation.
Doctoral students can receive credits for their attendance, please don’t forget to have your attendance sheet signed.
For any questions on this event, you can contact the session organizers at education-cisa@unige.ch.
Looking forward to seeing you at NEURO-Connect,
The organizing team
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NEURO-CONNECT seminars
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
12:15
Campus Biotech, H8.01.D
Prof. Stefano Palmintieri (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale & École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Feedback-induced dispositional changes in risk preferences
Contrary to the original normative decision-making standpoint, empirical studies have repeatedly reported that risk preferences are affected by the disclosure of choice outcomes (feedback). Although no consensus has yet emerged regarding the properties and mechanisms of this effect, a widespread and intuitive hypothesis is that repeated feedback affects risk preferences by means of a learning effect, which alters the representation of subjective probabilities. Here, we ran a series of seven experiments (N= 538), tailored to decipher the effects of feedback on risk preferences. Our results indicate that the presence of feedback consistently increases risk-taking, even when the risky option is economically less advantageous. Crucially, risk-taking increases just after the instructions, before participants experience any feedback. These results challenge the learning account, and advocate for a dispositional effect, induced by the mere anticipation of feedback information. Epistemic curiosity and regret avoidance may drive this effect in partial and complete feedback conditions, respectively.
Zoom : https://unige.zoom.us/j/66912755898?pwd=GvaVp6wWlCQhtRGedOD4Fl6azb9R58.1
Meeting ID: 669 1275 5898
Passcode: 902322