[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lectue - March 11, 2008 - Action Value and Social Value in the Anerior Cingulate Cortex

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Killam Lecture

 

Speaker:  Matthew Rushworth, Phd

Department of Experimental Psychology

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

 Title:  Action Value and Social Value in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Date:  Tuesday, March 11, 2008

 Time:  4:00 pm

 Place:  de Grandpre Communication Centre

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 Dear Colleagues, 

It is my pleasure to host Dr Matthew Rushworth as the Killam speaker on
March 11, 2008. Matthew is Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience in the
Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. His
research focuses on frontal lobe contributions to decision-making,
action, and motivation. He has produced an impressive corpus of work in
this area over the last several years, using a variety of methods in
both animal models and human subjects. A few recent references are
listed below. His expertise in both animal and human systems
neuroscience, and his ability to make links across these levels of study
will no doubt be in evidence for his talk. He will speak on "Action
value and social value in the anterior cingulate cortex". I encourage
you to attend what should be an excellent Killam seminar. 

 

Lesley Fellows 

 

Selected recent publications: 

 

Behrens TE, Woolrich MW, Walton ME, Rushworth MF. Learning the value of
information in an uncertain world. Nat Neurosci 2007; 10: 1214-21. 

 

Rushworth MF, Taylor PC. A paradoxical role for inhibition in
initiation. Neuron 2007; 54: 669-70. 

 

Rushworth MF, Behrens TE, Rudebeck PH, Walton ME. Contrasting roles for
cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex in decisions and social behaviour.
Trends Cogn Sci 2007; 11:168-76.