Cognition
and Decision Lab
About
The Cognition and Decision Lab is a joint venture among principal investigators Michael Woodford, Mark Dean and Hassan Afrouzi, faculty members of the Economics Department at Columbia University. The lab's aim is to use tools and techniques from Economics, Neuroscience, and Psychology to better understand the cognitive processes underlying economic decision making. Current projects include studying the way in which limited attention is allocated during choice and understanding the role of incomplete preferences in economic decision making. For more information, please contact one of the principal investigators.
Announcements
Summer 2023
This summer, Dilip and Mark will present their paper "A Better Test of Choice Overload" everywhere on the planet or so, including the Bounded Rationality in Choice Conference (BRIC; June 3-4, Northwestern), the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM; June 22-25, Los Angeles), and the meeting of the European Economic Association (EEA-ESEM; Aug 28-Sept 1, Barcelona).
Latest News
January 2025
Giulia's paper, "Model Selection for Behavioral Learning Data and Applications to Contextual Bandits," co-authored with Julien Aubert, Louis Köhler, Luc Lehéricy, and Patricia Reynaud-Bouret, has been accepted to AISTATS 2025.
January 2025
Mike's paper with Xuexin Wei (U. Texas), "Representational Geometry Explains Puzzling Error Distributions in Behavioral Tasks," has now been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
October 2024
Lab alumnus Arthur Prat-Carrabin and Mike’s paper, “Endogenous Precision of the Number Sense,” has been accepted as a reviewed pre-print by eLife.
October 2024
Lab alumni Mel Win Khaw and Ziang Li have a new draft of their paper, “Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes,” available as an NBER Working Paper.
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