Today we have with us a very special guest with whom we will kickstart this season, Percy Mistry.
You will get to hear about:
Interesting pathway into Cog Sci
The ecosystem needed to nurture research
How to collab in research without too many cooks spoiling the broth.
Mind-body problem to go easy on your brain.
Super cool analogies to study the developing mind
In-depth analysis of “How much to purchase?-A cognitive adaptive decision-making account”
Hedonic utility
Cool perks of being a neuroscientist!!A computational cognitive neuroscientist. He is currently a Research Scholar at the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Lab. He did his postdoc training in Computational Neuroscience at Stanford University. He has a Ph.D and a Master’s degree in Computational cognitive science from University of California Irvine.
He also has an MBA in Finance, Systems from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai, India. And has 10 years of work experience at HSBC in various roles in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
Percy Mistry’s profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/percy-mistry
Paper: https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2019/papers/0158/0158.pdf