A few of us (Laura, Regina, and myself) attended this year’s meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics, which took place from October 5 to 7 in Toronto, Canada. Highlights of the conference were the Keynote by Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller on Narratives in Economics, three very intense poster sessions (each of us presented a poster on one of them), and a lot of high-quality talks on different topics around the neural and cognitive basis of economically relevant behavior. Cognitive models (esp. sequential sampling models of decision making) have become a key aspect of the conference in recent years, so this conference is actually also of interest for those of us who are not using neuroscientific methods. Next year, the conference will take place at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Obviously, the picture does not show anything from the conference or from Toronto, but the gorgeous landscape of the Algonquin Provinical Park, which I visited together with three PhD students from Paris after the conference. It is marvelous and just a 4h-drive away from the Toronto (so, basically nothing by Canadian standards).