Memory and attention have recently emerged as important theoretical frameworks for considering wide-ranging problems in economics and decision sciences. This conference brought together leading economists, experimental psychologists, and memory theorists for in-depth discussion of current topics at the nexus of these disciplines. It fostered conversations across fields, spawning many potential collaborations and research relationships.


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2025 Memory And Attention Conference

Agenda

Thursday, June 5, 2025
8:30 am–9:15 am

Registration and Breakfast

Upstairs at the Gwen, 5th Floor
Rain location: Abstract Room 10th Floor

9:15 am–9:30 am

Opening Remarks

Abstract Room 10th Floor

9:30 am–10:45 am

Learning to See a World of Opportunities

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics (Speaker)

Elizabeth Kensinger, Boston College (Discussant)

10:45 am–11:15 am

Break

11:15 am–12:30 pm

Over and Underreaction in Inference and Forecasting

Francesca Bastianello, University of Chicago (Speaker)

George Wu, University of Chicago (Discussant)

12:30 pm–2:15 pm

Lunch and Keynote

Abstract Room 10th Floor

Cognitive Scientists’ Concepts About How People Learn and Use Concepts

Robert Goldstone, Indiana University Bloomington (Keynote Speaker)

2:15 pm–3:30 pm

Trapped by similarity: Understanding Limits to Adaptive Learning in Humans, Groups, and Machines

Todd Gureckis, New York University (Speaker)

Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford (Discussant)

3:30 pm–4:00 pm

Break

4:00 pm–5:15 pm

Weighting Competing Models

Chiara Aina, Pompeu Fabra University (Speaker)

Tomer Ullman, Harvard University (Discussant)

6:00 pm

Conference Dinner

By invitation only.

Friday, June 6, 2025
8:30 am–9:00 am

Breakfast

Upstairs at the Gwen, 5th Floor
Rain location: Abstract Room 10th Floor

9:00 am–10:15 am

Constructive Memory and Belief Formations: Evidence from Farmers' Climate Predictions

Dev Patel, Harvard University (Speaker)

Neil Stewart, University of Warwick (Discussant)

10:15 am–10:45 am

Break

10:45 am–12:00 pm

Leveraging Deep Representations to Investigate Naturalistic Human Decision-making

Jennifer Trueblood, Indiana University Bloomington (Speaker)

Joshua Schwartzstein, Harvard University (Discussant)

12:00 pm

Conference Adjourns