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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying social norms and controllability
Colloquium | November 28 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Xiaosi Gu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
To maintain the normal functioning of a society, individuals must be able to learn to adapt to norms. Neuroimaging studies have suggested that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the insular cortex might be important for norm learning. However, norms are not static processes but rather, can be changed and updated if individuals of a society learn to act on them. In other words, the... More >
Defects in mRNA translation and neurological disease
Seminar | November 28 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 245 Li Ka Shing Center
Susan Ackerman, University of California, San Diego
