Steven R. Quartz
Professor of Philosophy
B.A., University of Western Ontario, Huron College, 1986; M.A., 1988; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1993. Instructor, Caltech, 1998-99; Assistant Professor, 1999-2002; Associate Professor, 2002-10; Professor, 2010-.
Profile
Steven R. Quartz's research uses advances and methods in neuroscience to probe fundamental problems of the mind. This focuses on the brain's value systems and how they interact with culture to create our moral, political, and economic lives. His broader goal is to incorporate these tools into novel approaches to the humanities and social
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Research Summary
Neurophilosophy; Neuroeconomics; Evolutionary Theory and Human Origins
Caltech Affiliations
External Affiliations
- Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny, Edge Foundation
Selected Publications
- Quartz, S.R. Rescuing Happiness (forthcoming).
- Quartz, S.R. and Asp, A. (2015) Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Quartz, S.R. and Asp, A. Unequal Yet Happy, The New York Times, April 11, 2015.
- Kishida, K., Yang, D., Quartz, K., Quartz, S.R., Montague, P.R. (2012). Implicit signals in small group settings and their impact on the expression of cognitive capacity and associated brain responses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, 367:704-716.
- Bruguier, A., Quartz, S.R., Bossearts, P., (2010). Exploring the Nature of "Trader Intuition." Journal of Finance, 5: 1703-1723.
- Quartz, S.R. (2009). Reason, Emotion, and Decision-Making: Risk and Reward Computation with Feeling. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(5). 209-215.
- Beierholm, U., Quartz, S.R., Shams, L. (2009) Bayesian Priors Are Encoded Independently from Likelihoods in Human Multisensory Perception. Journal of Vision 9.5.
- 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.
- 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). Human Insula Reflects Risk Predictions Errors as Well as Risk. Journal of Neuroscience 28(11).
- 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.
- Quartz, S.R. and Sejnowski, T. (1997). The Neural Basis of Cognitive Development: A Constructivist Manifesto, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4:537-56.