Hot coffee or cold brew? Pizza or pasta for dinner? These are the decisions that guide our everyday lives. What computations do our brains make when weighing these choices?
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At Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, Akram Bakkour, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research scientist in the Shohamy lab, investigates the ways in which our brain incorporates our memories and past experiences into the everyday decision-making process. He and his Zuckerman Institute collaborators, including Principal Investigators Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D., and Michael Shadlen, MD, Ph.D., recently found that the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center, plays a central role in this deliberation process. These findings were published in the journal eLife.
Reference: “The hippocampus supports deliberation during value-based decisions” by Akram Bakkour, Daniela J Palombo, Ariel Zylberberg, Yul HR Kang, Allison Reid, Mieke Verfaellie, Michael N Shadlen and Daphna Shohamy, 3 July 2019, eLife.
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.46080.001
Source: SciTechDaily
