Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Dr. Ben Hayden
Description
Speaker: Dr. Ben Hayden, University of Minnesota
The Neuroscience of Naturalistic Decisions
The premise of our laboratory is that, when seeking to understand the neuroscience of decision-making, naturalness provides an essential ground truth. Making things more natural imposes certain costs and requires the development of novel methods, novel analysis approaches, and novel ways of thinking about data. I will describe our lab's recent ventures into more naturalistic tasks, and delve into the pros and cons of this approach.
Speaker Bio
Ben Hayden received his Ph.D. with Jack Gallant at UC Berkeley and then did a post-doc with Michael Platt at Duke University. He was a faculty member at the University of Rochester from 2011-2017 and moved to the University of Minnesota that year.