Mind, Brain, and Society: Neurocognitive Approaches to the Social Sciences
April 25, 2008
Luce Auditorium, Yale University

The symposium will feature fruitful academic interactions between scholars at the University of Tokyo and Yale University during the first year of the Todai-Yale Initiative.

Organizers	Junko Kato (The University of Tokyo) and Marvin Chun (Yale University)
Schedule	April 25, Friday (9:00am ~ 18:30pm)
Location	Luce Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven CT 06520 [campus map]
Contact	tyi@yale.edu
Program	[Program and Abstract PDF document]
	[Program and Abstract Word document]

 

Program

Greetings
President Hiroshi Komiyama, the University of Tokyo
President Richard C. Levin, Yale University

 

Panel I  The Political Brain: Emergence of Neuropolitics
(9:30 ~ 12:00)

Chair   Frances Rosenbluth
Department of Political Science, Yale University

Scientific Analyses of International Relations             
Bruce Russett
Department of Political Science, Yale University

Euclid was sometimes an unnecessarily sophisticated social scientist : Geometric modeling in cognitive science vis-à-vis spatial modeling in political science
Junko Kato and Kensuke Okada
The University of Tokyo

Limits and possibilities of neuroimaging approach to behavior in society: the case of sex differences in language function in the human brain   
Kenji Kansaku
Department of Rehabilitation for Sensory Functions,
Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities

fMRI neuropolitical experiment using the 1992 US presidential campaign video
Ikuo Kabashima and Hiroko Ide
Graduate School for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo

 

 

Panel II         Neuroeconomics of Intertemporal Choice: One Now or Two Later
(13:30 ~ 15:30)

Chairs  Koichi Hamada
Department of Economics, Yale University
Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara
Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo

Using functional brain imaging to dissociate uncertainty from delayed reward in choice tasks Marvin Chun [homepage]
Department of Psychology, Yale University

Neural basis of time discounting: critical evaluation of multiple-self approach
Daeyeol Lee
Department of Neurobiology, Yale University

Neurobiology of temporal and probability discounting
Taiki Takahashi
Center for Experimental Social Science, Hokkaido University (formerly at the University of Tokyo)

 

 

Panel III  From Economic Choice to Social Decision-Making
(16:00 ~ 18:00)

Chairs  Truman Bewley
Department of Economics, Yale University
Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara

How basic are behavioral biases?: Evidence from Capuchin Monkey Trading Behavior     
Keith Chen
School of Management, Yale University

Decision-making in a social context: From intentions to decisions
Laurie Santos
Department of Psychology, Yale University

Determinants of economic interaction: behavior or structure
Shyam Sunder
School of Management, Yale University