Museum Lectures
The Annual James Arthur Lecture with Paul Glimcher
© AMNH
Kaufmann Theater
Ticket Info
Free
Enter at 77th Street
Paul Glimcher, a professor of neural science, economics, and psychology at New York University, will discuss the neuroeconomics of human decision-making and how Darwinian “fitness” can be maximized with a costly brain. Glimcher will present an overview of our current understanding of the human machine for making decisions and will show how puzzling inconsistencies in human behavior emerge from the trade-offs of costs and benefits imposed by the hardware of the brain.
The annual James Arthur lecture series on the evolution of the human brain was inaugurated at the Museum in 1932 through a bequest from James Arthur, a successful manufacturer with an interest in mechanisms—and in particular, the workings of the human brain.
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