8th Annual Marlene Porsche Graduate School of Neuroeconomics Symposium
Program for the 8th Annual Marlene Porsche Graduate School of Neuroeconomics Symposium
29 May 2026, Auditorium RAA-G-01, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 13:30 | Marlene Porsche Memorial Keynote Lecture - A computational model of human supernormal stimuli preference |
Prof. Colin Camerer Caltech |
| 14:30 | Break | |
| 14:45 | Beyond perception: Multi-stage efficient coding of perceptual and value representations | Saurabh Bedi |
| 15:05 | How punishment (and reward) termination motivates humans | Giorgia Bergmann |
| 15:25 | Risk attitudes in gains and losses: A perceptual account | Alina Davydova |
| 15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:15 | Attention modulation of attribute representations> | Da Li |
| 16:35 | Dysalculia beyond the classroom: how altered numerical cognition affects financial decisions | Maike Renkert |
| 16:55 | The influence of causal knowledge on conditioned inhibition | Sarah Salzgeber |
| 17:05 | Evaluating pain in Swiss francs | Viktor Timokhov |
| 17:30 | End |
Abstract for the Marlene Porsche Memorial Keynote Lecture:
Supernormal stimuli (SNS) are artificially amplified stimuli that elicit stronger responses than their natural (normal) counterparts, because they exaggerate the features that biological or cultural evolution has made salient and rewarding. We are working on a computational model which accounts for SNS as preferred because of asymmetric imperfect perception: When a beneficial property is more precisely perceived or recalled than a costly property is, SNS preference results. We speculate about use cases of ultraprocessed food, social media, and online fraud.