I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) at the Bogen Family Econ Department and the PPE Program at Hebrew University, where I am also visiting the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality.

I lead the Jerusalem Neuroeconomics Lab (website coming soon!), the first research group within an Econ Department in Israel to integrate neuroscientific methods into economic research.

I completed my PhD at Tel Aviv University, advised by Dino Levy, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship 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 have been fortunate to collaborate with Dotan Persitz, Adam Brandenburger, Ryan Webb and Agnieszka Tymula.

[Link to my CV].

Join the team

If you’re curious about how people make decisions, and you want to study it in a truly well-rounded way, we’d love to hear from you.

In our lab, we combine behavioral experiments with cutting-edge measurement tools (including imaging methods), alongside rigorous theory and modeling, to generate deep insights into how we think, choose, and navigate the world.

We welcome researchers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, including economics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, data sceince and management.
We have open positions at all levels: undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and research assistants.

Contact: vered.kurtz@mail.huji.ac.il

Publications

Kurtz-David V., Madar, A., Hakim A., & Levy D.J., The Trembling Hand Unraveled: Motor Dynamics and Choice Inconsistency, Journal of Neuroscience, 45 (32), 2025.
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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.
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Kurtz-David V., Persitz D. Webb R. & Levy D.J., The Neural Computation of Inconsistent Choice Behavior, Nature Communications, 10 (1583), 2019.
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Preprints and submitted papers

Kurtz-David V., Brandenburger A. & Glimcher P., The Limits of Social Cognition: Production Functions and Reasoning in Strategic Interactions, under revision.
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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, R&R, PlosOne.
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Kurtz-David V., Persitz D. & Levy D.J., Design Invariance in the Classic Consumer Choice Problem.
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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)
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Ongoing projects

Kurtz-David V., Brandenburger A. & Glimcher P., Neural Tradeoffs in Strategic Choice.

Kurtz-David V., Glimcher P. & Tymula A., Reward Expectation: Encoding the Best or Encoding the Mean?

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

Teaching

Hebrew University:
2025- , Lecturer - Guided Reading in PPE (UG)
2026- , Lecturer - Price Theory B [Intermediate Econ] (UG)
2026- , Lecturer - Behavioral Economics for PPE (UG)

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)