Vered Kurtz-David

Publications

Publications

Published articles, working papers, publications in Hebrew, and work in progress.

Published

2025

The Trembling Hand Unraveled: Motor Dynamics and Choice Inconsistency

Kurtz-David, V., Madar, A., Hakim, A., & Levy, D. J. · Journal of Neuroscience, 45(32)

Paper →
2024

Pre-acquired Functional Connectivity Predicts Choice Inconsistency

Madar, A., Kurtz-David, V., Hakim, A., Levy, D. J., & Tavor, I. · Journal of Neuroscience, 44(18)

Paper →
2023

Choosers Adapt Value Coding to the Environment, But Do Not Attain Efficiency

Kurtz-David, V., Alladi, V., Brandenburger, A., Bucher, S., Dewan, A., Louie, K., Glimcher, P., & Tymula, A. · Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Paper →
2019

The Neural Computation of Inconsistent Choice Behavior

Kurtz-David, V., Persitz, D., Webb, R., & Levy, D. J. · Nature Communications, 10, 1583

Paper →

Working papers

WP

The Limits of Social Cognition: Production Functions and Reasoning in Strategic Interactions

Kurtz-David, V., Brandenburger, A., & Glimcher, P. · Under revision

Paper →
WP

A Tale of Two Environments: Divisive Normalization and the (In)Flexibility of Choice

Kurtz-David, V., Sinha, S., Alladi, V., Bucher, S., Brandenburger, A., Louie, K., Glimcher, P., & Tymula, A. · Revise and resubmit, PLOS ONE

Paper →
WP

Design Invariance in the Classic Consumer Choice Problem

Kurtz-David, V., Persitz, D., & Levy, D. J.

Slides →
WP

MindEvolve: A Workflow for Large Language Models to Predict Human Social Interactions with Interpretable Symbolic Models

Ye, Y., Fang, Y., Gao, X., Kurtz-David, V., Hula, A., Zhou, X., Fan, C., Shen, B., & Long, T. · Submitted, 2026

Submitted

Publications in Hebrew

2026

On Cognitive Limitations in Strategic Choice

Kurtz-David, V. · Itutim, 9

Paper →
2021

Mind Boggling: The Neural Traits of Irrational Choice

Kurtz-David, V., Levy, D. J., & Persitz, D. · Innovations in Management, 9, 73–84

Paper →

Work in progress

Expectations, Perception, and Reference Points: Evidence from Pain and Vision

Joint with Ori Heffetz and Rotem Botvinik-Nezer

Emerging Minds in Risky Worlds: Evolutionary Origins of Decision-Making under Uncertainty

Joint with Neta Barlam, Yifat Eliezer and Alon Zaslaver

Neural Tradeoffs in Strategic Choice

Joint with Dongni Yan and Paul Glimcher

Reward Expectation: Encoding the Best or Encoding the Mean?

Joint with Agnieszka Tymula and Paul Glimcher

The Neural Correlates of Prudent Behavior

Joint with Adam Hakim, Bar Light and Dino Levy