Paul Glimcher PhD

Paul Glimcher is an affiliated faculty member at NYU Shanghai. He is also the professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology at New York University. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and an AB from Princeton University. Professor Glimcher’s research seeks to understand how humans and animals make choices in time, a process usually called delay discounting. A second set of projects seeks to understand the contribution of midbrain dopamine systems to the process of valuing alternative courses of actions. A third set of ongoing related projects focuses on the role of the basal ganglia in choice. A fourth set of projects explores the structure of cortical areas involved in action selection both in the face of risk and in the face of ambiguity.

He is the author of a number of textbooks, including Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain, and Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis. His work has appeared in a number of journals including Nature, Science Journal of Neuroscience, Neuron, and the Journal of Neurophysiology. Professor Glimcher is a Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science. He is also the founding president of the Society for Neuroeconomics, as well as the founder and Director of the New York University Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making (IISDM).