The objective of this three-day symposium is to gather people from different research fields with different approaches (philosophy, cognition, economics, ethology, psychiatry, robotics, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.
Given the ongoing climate crisis, for this 2026 edition, we have decided to create a symposium maximising the possibility for invited speakers to travel by train or a short flight. We are nevertheless happy to host attendees from any place in the world. As we are aware of the tension between reducing carbon footprint and maintaining a diversity of countries, our model for SBDM may be reconsidered in next editions. The hope is to strike a right balance between sustainability and inclusivity across the years.
The Thirteenth Symposium on Biology of Decision Making (SBDM 2026) will take place in Paris on May 27-29, 2026, at the Paris Brain Institute (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital) and NeuroModulation Institute (Sainte-Anne Hospital).
Scientific Committee
Mehdi Khamassi (CNRS / ISIR, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
Florent Meyniel (NeuroSpin (CEA-Saclay) and Institute for Neuromodulation (GHU Paris Psychiatrie & Neurosciences), Paris, France)
Mathias Pessiglione (INSERM / Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France)
Marion Rouault (CNRS / Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France)
Local Organizing Committee
Paris Brain Institute's Team: Adriana Papasavva, Alice Clerouin, Philémon Berne, Marion Rouault, Mathias Pessiglione
INM Team: Eliana Lousada, Florent Meyniel
Partners and funders
- Paris Brain Institute
- Région Ile-de-France
- DIM-C-Brain
- INM Institut de Neuromodulation
- Sorbonne Université
Registration is now open and will close on May 22nd 2026.
Abstract submission is now open and will close on March 27, 2026. The outcome will be communicated to participants on March 31, 2026.
