2025 Memory and Attention Conference
The Memory and Attention Conference, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, will be held June 5-6, 2025. Memory and attention have recently emerged as important theoretical frameworks for considering wide-ranging problems beyond psychology in economics and decision sciences. This conference brings together leading economists, experimental psychologists, and memory theorists for in-depth discussion of current topics at the nexus of these disciplines. It aims to foster conversations across fields, spawning many potential collaborations and research relationships.
This conference is by invitation only. If you have any questions, please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
Presentation format: 25 minutes for presentations, 25 minutes for discussion, and 25 minutes for Q&A.
Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
10th floor prefunction
Opening Remarks
Abstract Room 10th Floor
Learning to See a World of Opportunities
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics (Speaker)
Elizabeth Kensinger, Boston College (Discussant)
Break
Over and Underreaction in Inference and Forecasting
Francesca Bastianello, University of Chicago (Speaker)
George Wu, University of Chicago (Discussant)
Lunch and Keynote
Abstract Room 10th Floor
Cognitive Scientists’ Concepts About How People Learn and Use Concepts
Robert Goldstone, Indiana University Bloomington (Keynote Speaker)
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)
Break
Weighting Competing Models
Chiara Aina, Pompeu Fabra University (Speaker)
Tomer Ullman, Harvard University (Discussant)
Conference Dinner
By invitation only.
Breakfast
10th floor prefunction
Environmental Beliefs and Adaptation to Climate Change
Dev Patel, Harvard University (Speaker)
Neil Stewart, University of Warwick (Discussant)
Break
Leveraging Deep Representations to Investigate Naturalistic Human Decision-making
Jennifer Trueblood, Indiana University Bloomington (Speaker)
Joshua Schwartzstein, Harvard University (Discussant)