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67
Citations
27901
World Ranking
2823
National Ranking
1311

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul W. Glimcher is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant number of publications in cognitive neuroscience. The main fields of study include neuroscience with specific subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, general decision sciences, applied psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work addresses various topics including neural and behavioral psychology studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, neural dynamics and brain function, behavioral health and interventions, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms.

Recent papers by Paul W. Glimcher include the following:

  • "The Normalization of Consumer Valuations: Context-Dependent Preferences from Neurobiological Constraints" (2020) published in Management Science
  • "Efficiently irrational: deciphering the riddle of human choice" (2022) published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Divisive normalization does influence decisions with multiple alternatives" (2020) published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Expected subjective value theory (ESVT): A representation of decision under risk and certainty" (2023) published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "The nematode worm C. elegans chooses between bacterial foods as if maximizing economic utility" (2023) published in eLife

Their frequent coauthors include Kenway Louie, Candace M. Raio, Anna B. Konova, Bo Shen, and Benjamin B. Lu, reflecting ongoing collaborations with multiple researchers.

Paul W. Glimcher has contributed to several publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Biological Psychiatry, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and eLife.

A notable recognition in their career is being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • The neural correlates of subjective value during intertemporal choice

    Joseph W Kable;Paul W Glimcher

  • Neural Correlates of Decision Variables in Parietal Cortex

    Michael L. Platt;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Midbrain dopamine neurons encode a quantitative reward prediction error signal.

    Hannah M. Bayer;Paul W. Glimcher

  • The root of all value: a neural common currency for choice

    Dino J Levy;Paul W Glimcher

  • The Neurobiology of Decision: Consensus and Controversy

    Joseph W. Kable;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision.

    Paul W. Glimcher;Aldo Rustichini

  • Understanding dopamine and reinforcement learning: The dopamine reward prediction error hypothesis

    Paul W. Glimcher

  • Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics

    Paul W. Glimcher

  • Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the brain.

    Paul W. Glimcher;Colin F. Camerer;Ernst Fehr;Russell A. Poldrack

  • Activity in Posterior Parietal Cortex Is Correlated with the Relative Subjective Desirability of Action

    Michael C. Dorris;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Neural Representation of Subjective Value Under Risk and Ambiguity

    Ifat Levy;Jason Snell;Amy J Nelson;Amy J Nelson;Aldo Rustichini

  • Dynamic Response-by-Response Models of Matching Behavior in Rhesus Monkeys

    Brian Lau;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Value Representations in the Primate Striatum during Matching Behavior

    Brian Lau;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis

    Paul W. Glimcher

  • Adolescents’ risk-taking behavior is driven by tolerance to ambiguity

    Agnieszka Tymula;Lior A. Rosenberg Belmaker;Amy K. Roy;Lital Ruderman

  • Comparing Apples and Oranges: Using Reward-Specific and Reward-General Subjective Value Representation in the Brain

    Dino J. Levy;Paul W. Glimcher

  • Physiological utility theory and the neuroeconomics of choice

    Paul W. Glimcher;Michael C. Dorris;Hannah M. Bayer

  • THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF VISUAL-SACCADIC DECISION MAKING

    Paul W. Glimcher

  • Movement selection in advance of action in the superior colliculus.

    Paul W. Glimcher;David L. Sparks

  • decisions, uncertainty and the brain

    Paul Glimcher

  • Neuroeconomics : decision making and the brain

    Paul W Glimcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Michael L. Platt
Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania
Joseph W. Kable
Joseph W. Kable University of Pennsylvania
Stephen R. Ross
Stephen R. Ross Lincoln Park Zoo
Bartley G. Hoebel
Bartley G. Hoebel Princeton University
Russell A. Poldrack
Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University
David J. Heeger
David J. Heeger New York University
David L. Sparks
David L. Sparks Baylor College of Medicine
Stephen M. Fleming
Stephen M. Fleming University College London
Wolfram Schultz
Wolfram Schultz University of Cambridge

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