I am a postdoctoral fellow with Paul Glimcher, Chair of the Neuroscience Institute at NYU.
My main research interests include neuroeconomics, experimental economics,
and decision-making neuroscience.
My work focuses on neural mechanisms of irrational choice, reward encoding
and strategic choice.
I completed my PhD at Tel Aviv University, advised by Dino Levy.
I have been fortunate to collaborate with Dotan Persitz, Adam Brandenburger, Ryan Webb and Agnieszka Tymula.

I will be on the Israeli job market in 2024-5.

[Link to my CV].

Publications

Madar, A ,Kurtz-David V., Hakim A., Levy D.J. & Tavor I., Pre-acquired functional connectivity predicts choice inconsistency, Journal of Neuroscience, 44 (18), 2024.
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Kurtz-David V., Alladi V., Brandenburger A., Bucher S. Dewan A., Louie K., Glimcher P.# & Tymula A.#, Choosers Adapt Value Coding to the Environment, But Do Not Attain Efficiency, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, July, 2023.
[Paper]

Kurtz-David V., Persitz D. Webb R. & Levy D.J., The Neural Computation of Inconsistent Choice Behavior, Nature Communications, 10 (1583), 2019.
[Paper]

Pre-prints and submitted papers

Kurtz-David V., Madar, A , Hakim A., & Levy D.J., The Trembling Hand Unraveled: Motor Dynamics Affect Choice Inconsistency, R&R, Journal of Neuroscience.
[Paper]

Kurtz-David V., Brandenburger A. & Glimcher P., The Limits of Social Cognition: Production Functions and Reasoning in Strategic Interactions, under review, Nature Communications.
[Paper]

Kurtz-David V., Sinha, S., Alladi V., Bucher S., Brandenburger A., Louie K., Glimcher P.# & Tymula A.#, A Tale of Two Environments: Divisive Normalization and the (In)Flexibility of Choice, under review, Nature Communications.
[Paper]

Kurtz-David V., Persitz D. & Levy D.J., Design Invariance in the Classic Consumer Choice Problem.
[Slides]

Publications in Hebrew

Kurtz-David V., Levy D.J., & Persitz D., Mind Boggling: The Neural Traits of Irrational Choice, Innovations in Management,9, 73-84 (2021)
[Paper]

Ongoing projects

Kurtz-David V., Brandenburger A. & Glimcher P., Neural Mechanisms of Higher-Order Levels of Reasoning.

Kurtz-David V., Howell K., Meyer M. & Glimcher P., I Have Been Thinking About You: Relating Strategic Reasoning to Theory of Mind.

Kurtz-David V., Sinha S., Alladi V., Brandenburger A., Bucher S. Dewan A., Louie K., Glimcher P.# & Tymula A.#, The Effect of Choice Set Size on Value-Encoding Mechanisms.

Hakim A.*,Kurtz-David V.*, Light B. & Levy D.J., The Neural Correlates of Prudent Behavior.

Teaching

Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University:
2016-2021, Instructor - Statistic Models for Business (MBA, 6 groups)
2016-2020, Teaching assistant - Principles of Business Strategy (MBA, 12 groups)
2019, Teaching assistant - Introduction to Business Strategy (undergrad, 2 groups)