Abstract:
There is a substantial body of work in humans and animals that studies the neural mechanisms of value-based decision-making. Two specific topics of interest are decisions that involve risk (e.g. playing a lottery) and that involve delayed rewards (e.g. go on vacation today or save for retirement). Nevertheless, there is only a small amount of work linking across species, and it is not yet clear whether the tasks for human subjects study the same phenomena as the tasks used in animals. By designing behavioral paradigms with the cross-species goal in mind, one can allow more direct comparison and reach across several experimental/conceptual levels: from genes to neural circuits to behavior. I will discuss some progress in our lab towards this goal.
*Please note that tea and coffee reception will start at 4:00 PM.
NYU Shanghai STEM Seminar Series - Spring 2018
4:30-5:30 PM, Every Wednesday | Room 204, NYU Shanghai
- March 21: Jeffrey Erlich, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
- March 28: Gang Fang, Assistant Professor of Biology
- April 11: Tao Huang, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- April 18: Li Li, Associate Professor of Neural Science and Psychology
- April 25: Leonardo T. Rolla, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- May 02: Xinying Cai, Assistant Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
- May 09: Hanghui Chen, Assistant Professor of Physics
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