DSDN 2025
14th Düsseldorf Symposium on Decision Neuroscience (DSDN)
The Symposium
This year, unlike in previous editions, the symposium will take place in September: on Friday, September 26, 2025. It will be a hybrid event, allowing you to join either virtually or in person. As in past years, the venue will be the Haus der Universität in Düsseldorf, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Düsseldorf.
The Program
| Time (CEST) | Talk |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Introduction Tobias Kalenscher, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | A role for dopamine in human working memory Samuel McClure, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | A dopamine mechanism for reward maximisation Wolfram Schultz, Cambridge University, UK |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | A cross-species approach to the neural bases of empathy and prosociality Valeria Gazzola and Christian Keysers, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, NL |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Predicting Sales With Neuroforecasting – When Does it Add Value? Hilke Plassmann, Decision Neuroscience and Marketing, INSEAD & Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Sorbonne University, Paris, FR |
Flyer
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Registration
The virtual and in-person participation is free of charge. To register, please click here and enter your name, your affiliation and your academic position (position not mandatory) into the form. Please also indicate whether you want to participate in-person or virtually.
Previous Symposia
To view photos and impressions from our 2024 Symposium, click here. Impressions from our 2023 Symposium, can be found here, and impressions of our 2022 Symposium can be found here.