Research

My research uses advances and methods in neuroscience to probe fundamental problems of the mind, ranging from how the mind emerges from the developing brain to how we make decisions, from individual decision-making under uncertainty to moral decision-making.

Lab

Information about my lab can be found here.

Brain, Mind, and Society PhD Program

I direct the Brain, Mind, and Society Phd program, which is jointly part of the Social Science and Computation and Neural Systems PhD programs at Caltech. It provides innovative, interdisciplinary training opportunities to prepare a new generation of scientists with both the analytic foundations and the experimental skills needed to pursue careers at the intersection of neuroscience and the social sciences. More information about the program can be found here.

Select Publications

Hsu, M., Anen, C., and Quartz, S.R. (2008). The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency. Science, May 8, 2008. (10.1126/science.1153651).

Kording, P. Beierholm, U., Ma, W.J., Quartz, S.R, Tenenbaum, J., Shams, L. (2007). Causal inference in multisensory perception. Public Library of Science (PLoS One), 2(9).

Preuschoff, K., Bossaerts, P., and Quartz, S.R. (2006). Neural Differentiation of Expected Reward and Risk in Human Subcortical Structures. Neuron. 51:381-90.

Tomlin, D., Kayali, M.A., Anen, C., King-Casas, B., Camerer, C., Quartz, S.R., Montague, P.R. (2006). Agent-specific responses in the cingulate cortex during economic exchanges. Science. 312:1047-50.

King-Casas, B., Tomlin, D., Anen, C., Camerer, C., Quartz, S.R., and Montague, P.R. (2005). Getting to Know You: Reputation and trust in a two-person economic exchange. Science. 308: 78-83.