Valerie Reyna is the Lois and Melvin Tukman Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Her research integrates brain and behavioral approaches to understand and improve judgment, decision making, and memory across the life span. She is a developer of fuzzy-trace theory, a model of the relation between mental representations and decision making that has been widely applied in law, medicine, and public health.
James Bjork is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School and the Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, as well as a neuroscientist for the Department of Veterans Affairs. His research interests include psychopharmacology and traumatic brain injury and drug abuse in military and other populations. Dr. Bjork has authored dozens of peer-reviewed behavioral and neuroimaging papers on human impulsivity and aggression, and is a frequent speaker to lay and professional audiences about the motivational neurocircuitry of addiction and the at-risk brain.