Peter Rudebeck, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Neuroscience and PsychiatryIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Prefrontal and limbic mechanisms of reward-guided decision-making and affect How do we decide what to pursue and how do we update our decisions as our wants and needs change? In our daily lives, our brains are constantly having to learn and […]
Greg DeAngelis, Ph.D.Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering School or Arts and Sciences: Brain and Cognitive SciencesUniversity of Rochester How the brain computes object motion and depth during self-motion Primate visual motion processing has provided a powerful model system for studying the neural basis of perception, decision-making, and action planning. However, […]
William R. Stauffer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Neurobiology Center for Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh Title: From Control to Composition: Prefrontal Neuron Activity DuringCombinatorial Reasoning and Goal Formation Abstract: The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is central to cognitive control, organizingbehavior to achieve internal goals. Yet a fundamental question remains: how do we definethose goals? In other words, […]
