Psychology
People differ in the degree to which they will choose larger, delayed rewards over smaller, immediate ones. Joe Kable and colleagues have found that activity in specific parts of the brain, striatum and medial prefrontal cortex, reflects the subjective value that particular person places on future rewards.
Harvey Grill and lab members have shown that leptin, a hormone made in fat, acts on the same neurons in the brain that respond to signals arising from food in the stomach. Immunohistochemical images of **green** pSTAT leptin responsive cells, **red** c-Fos stomach distention responsive cells and yellow neurons responsive to both signals
With Ilana Ritov, Jon Baron found that outcomes that are absolutely prohibited (PVs) tend to show a greater discrepancy between acts and omissions that cause them (omission bias).
Work done in the Thompson-Schill Lab shows increased activity in the left frontal operculum when healthy volunteers were asked to selectively retrieve an object's name among competing alternatives
Colloquium
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Rich Ivry, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, UC Berkeley
November 13, 2023
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
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Randy L. Buckner, Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience, Harvard University
December 4, 2023
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue
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Kia Nobre, Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology, Yale University
March 25, 2024
Levin Auditorium
425 S. University Avenue