Columbia Neuroscience Seminar with Peter Rudebeck
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October 21, 2025
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Jerome L. Greene Science Center
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Prefrontal and limbic mechanisms of reward-guided decision-making
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 update the costs and benefits associated with different available courses of action in order to optimally guide our decisions and control our affective state. I will discuss work where we have investigated how parts of the prefrontal cortex and limbic system compute the costs and benefits of different options based on the probability and type of outcomes that can be received, as well as how these computations are altered by preferences.Key Speaker: Peter Rudebeck
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