[BIC-announce] FW: Herbert Jasper Lecture - TODAY - The Neural Basis of Decision -Making

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

 Herbert Jasper Lecture

Tuesday, April 29th at 4 p.m. in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to welcome Paul W. Glimcher from New York University as the
Herbert Jasper Lecturer of 2008, April 29th. 

Recording neural activity in primates and functional MRI in humans, Paul
Glimcher has developed and applied economically based theories of
behavior to neural activity in the brain in order to explain processes
of subjective responses, choice and decision making.  He has examined
the role of dopaminergic circuits in animals and humans along with other
extrapyramidal and cortical systems in these processes.  In his
research, writings and presentations, he integrates information from
many different levels and disciplines to address fundamental
neuroscientific, economic and philosophical issues which cross the
mind/body and biological/social science divides.  

His lecture is entitled:  The Neural Basis of Decision-Making.  

Dr. Glimcher's research and laboratory can be viewed on his website:  

http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~glimcher/

I strongly encourage all to attend this honorary lecture which promises
to be highly informative for clinical and basic neuroscientists alike.

Barbara E. Jones
Complex Neural Systems