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The Thirteenth Symposium on Biology of Decision Making (SBDM 2026) will take place in Paris on May 27-29, 2026, at the Paris Brain Institute (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital) and NeuroModulation Institute (Sainte-Anne Hospital).

The objective of this three-day symposium is to gather people from different research fields with different approaches (philosophy, cognition, economics, ethology, psychiatry, robotics, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.

Registration will open late February 2026 and will close on May 22nd 2026.

Abstract submission will open late February 2026 and will close on March 27, 2026. The outcome will be communicated to participants on March 31, 2026.

 

Given the ongoing climate crisis, for this 2026 edition, we have decided to create a symposium maximising the possibility for invited speakers to travel by train or a short flight. We are nevertheless happy to host attendees from any place in the world. As we are aware of the tension between reducing carbon footprint and maintaining a diversity of countries, our model for SBDM may be reconsidered in next editions. The hope is to strike a right balance between sustainability and inclusivity across the years.

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27TH - Paris Brain Institute, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

 

9h30 - 12h00 – Talk Session 1

Metacognition of decision making – Chair: Marion Rouault

  • 9h00 - 9h30: Breakfast + Welcoming words
  • 9h30 - 10h00: Maël Lebreton (Paris School of Economics, France)
  • 10h00 - 10h30: Annika Boldt (University College London, UK)
  • 10h30 - 11h00: Michael Pereira (Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France)
  • 11h00 - 11h30: Coffee break
  • 11h30 - 12h00: Elisabeth Parés-Pujolràs (University College Dublin, Ireland)
  • 12h00 - 12h30: Tricia Seow (University College London, UK)


12h30 - 14h – Lunch break 

 

14h00 - 16h30 – Talk Session 2 

Theoretical models of decision-making – Chair: Alizée Lopez-Persem 

  • 14h00 - 14h30: Clay Holroyd (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • 14h30 - 15h00: Béatrice Boulu-Reshef (Cergy Paris Université, France) 
  • 15h00 - 15h30: Coffee break
  • 15h30 - 16h00: Juliette Bénon (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • 16h00 - 16h30: Giovanni Pezzulo (National Research Council of Italy, Roma)

 

16h30 - 18h30: Poster Session

 

 

THURSDAY, MAY 28TH - NeuroModulation Institute, Sainte-Anne Hospital

 

9h30 - 12h00 – Talk Session 3

Hidden internal states in decision making – Chair: Florent Meyniel 

  • 9h00 - 9h30: Breakfast + Welcoming words
  • 9h30 - 10h00: Athena Akrami (University College London, UK)
  • 10h00 - 10h30: Diksha Gupta (University College London, UK)
  • 10h30 - 11h00: Simon van Gaal (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • 11h00 - 11h30: Coffee break
  • 11h30 - 12h00: Anne Urai (Leiden University, Netherlands)
  • 12h00 - 12h30: Valentin Wyart (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)

 

12h30 - 14h – Lunch break 

 

14h00 - 16h30 – Talk Session 4

Monoaminergic control of decision making – Chair: Lucie Berkovitch 

  • 14h00 - 14h30: Romain Ligneul (Center for Neuroscience Research of Lyon, France) 
  • 14h30 - 15h00: Dan Bang (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  • 15h00 - 15h30: Coffee break
  • 15h30 - 16h00: Miriam Klein-Flügge (University of Oxford, UK)
  • 16h00 - 16h30: Angela Yu (Technische Universität Damstardt, Germany)

 

16h30 - 18h30: Poster Session

 

19h-22h – Social event

Buffet dinner at the Zamansky tower, Jussieu 

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 29TH - Paris Brain Institute, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

 

9h30 - 12h00 – Talk Session 5

Intrinsic motivation and decision making  – Chair: Mathias Pessiglione 

  • 9h00 - 9h30: Breakfast + Welcoming words
  • 9h30 - 10h00: Kou Murayama (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  • 10h00 - 10h30: Irene Cogliati Dezza (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • 10h30 - 11h00: Ellen O'Donoghue (Cardiff University, UK)
  • 11h00 - 11h30: Coffee break
  • 11h30 - 12h00: Jade Seguin (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • 12h00 - 12h30: Lieke van Lieshout (Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

 

12h30 - 14h – Lunch break 

 

14h00 - 16h30 – Talk Session 6

Emotions related to decision making – Chair: Julie Grèzes

  • 14h00 - 14h30: Agnes Moors (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
  • 14h30 - 15h00: Stéphane Lemaire (University of Rennes, France)
  • 15h00 - 15h30: Coffee break
  • 15h30 - 16h00: Roeland Heerema (Paris Brain Institute, France)
  • 16h00 - 16h30: Camilla Nord (University of Cambridge, UK)

 

Cautionary note: the order of talks and sessions is still subject to change.

 
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