Associate Professor of Neural Science, Economics
Ph.D. 1989, University of Pennsylvania.

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Research Interests:

Planning and action in the oculomotor system.

Selected Works:

Glimcher, P. W., and Sparks, D. L. (1992). Movement selection in advance of action in the superior colliculus. Nature 355,542-545.

Platt, M. L. and Glimcher, P. W. (1998) Response fields of intra-parietal neurons quantified with multiple saccadic targets. Exp. Brain Res. 121: 65-75.

Glimcher, P.W. (2001) Making Choices: The Neurophysiology of Visual-Saccadic Decision Making. Trends in Neurocience. 24:654-659.

Glimcher, P.W. (2002) Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Choosing a Neurobiological Theory of Choice. Neuron. 36:323-332.

Glimcher, P.W. (2003) The Neurobiology of Visual Saccadic Decision Making. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 26:133- 179.

Glimcher, P.W. (2003) Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Glimcher, P. W. and Rustichini, A. (2004) Neuroeconomics: The Concilience of Brain and Decision. Science. 306: 447-452.

Dorris, MC and Glimcher, PW. (2004) Activity in Posterior Parietal Cortex is Correlated with the Subjective Desireability of an Action. Neuron. 44: 365-378.

Glimcher, P. W. (2005) Indeterminacy in Brain and Behavior. Annual Review of Psychology. 56: 25-56.

Bayer, H.M. and Glimcher P.W. (2005) Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Encode a Quantitative Reward Prediction Error Signal. Neuron. 47:129-141.

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