1st Einstein Fellowship Symposium on “Decision-making”

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Joint meeting between fellows from London and Berlin, with the explicit goal to enhance interactions and collaborations between groups in London and Berlin. Organized by Professor R J Dolan, Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain & Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London

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CONFERENCE POSTER
Download screen version (pdf) The meeting is jointly funded by: Einstein Stiftung Berlin
www.einsteinfoundation.de Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/ Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
www.mind-and-brain.de

Programme (at 26 April 2011)

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Thursday 28 April 2011

Introduction
9.00 – 9.15    Raymond J Dolan

Session 1
Chair: Raymond J Dolan

9.15 − 9.45    Marc Guitart Masip (London)
Disambiguating action and valence in decision-making using computational models and fMRI

9.45 − 10.15    Dorothea Hämmerer (Berlin)
Lifespan differences in electrophysiological correlates of early monitoring and late evaluative processes of choice-outcome contingency

10.15 − 10.45    Mkael Symmonds (London)
Deconstructing the neural basis of risk evaluation

10.45 − 11.15     Coffee

11.15 − 11.45     Peter N.C. Mohr (Berlin)
Neural basis of underdiversification in portfolio decisions

11.45 – 12.15     Klaus Wunderlich (London)
Learning about correlated risks in the human brain

12.15 – 12.45     Dominik R. Bach (London/Berlin)
A stable sparse fear memory trace in the human amygdala

13.00 – 14.00    Lunch


Session 2
Chair: Hauke Heekeren

14.00 – 14.30    Nikos Green (Berlin)
Decision threshold modulation for reward maximization 14.30 – 15.00    Nick Wright (London)
Egocentricity and the biological control of human cooperation

15.00 – 15.30    Stefan Kiebel (Leipzig/Berlin)
The free-energy principle and an anatomic-temporal cortical hierarchy

15.30 – 16.00    Tea

16.00 – 16.30    Daniel Margulies (Leipzig/Berlin)
Towards a connectivity-based functional architectonics of the human brain

16.30 – 17.00    Rosalyn Moran (London)
A mathematical microscope for the observation of neural system transmitters

17.00 – 17.30    Soyoung Q Park (Berlin)
Neurobiology of value integration: when value impacts valuation 17.30 – 19.00
Poster Session
Cheese & Wine Reception

Friday 29 April 2011

Session 3 Chair: Henrik Walter 9.00 – 9.30    Stephen Fleming (London)
Control of the unexpected by human subthalamic nucleus

9.30 − 10.00    Anita Tusche (Leipzig/Berlin)
Brain signals reveal subsequent consumer choices for unattended products

10.00 – 10.30    Thomas Fitzgerald (London)
Differentiable neural substrates for learned and described value and risk

10.30 – 11.00    Coffee

11.00 – 11.30    Miriam Klein-Flugge (London)
Learning in time and reward: Human ventral tegmental area encodes a precise temporal difference reward prediction error whereas ventral striatum encodes task-specific learning signals

11.30 – 12.00    Annette Horstmann (Leipzig/Berlin)
FTO regulates reward-based decision making and the homeostatic control of hunger and satiety

12.00 – 12.30    Quentin Huys (London)
Pavlovian influences on decision making: a route towards comorbidities in psychiatry?

12.30 – 13.30    Lunch


Session 3
Chair: Arno Villringer

13.30 – 14.00    Irene E. Nagel (Berlin)
Boosting without tuning? An age-comparative pharmacological imaging study of working memory performance

14.00 – 14.30    Ben Seymour (London)
The neurobiological control of decision flexibility

14.30 – 15.00    Christoph Korn (Berlin)
Positively biased processing of social feedback

15.00 – 15.30    Tali Sharot (London)
Resolving the puzzle of unrealistic optimism: insights from behavioural, pharmacological and fMRI studies

Posters

Andreas Böhringer (Leipzig/Berlin)
Inter-individual differences in BA6 gray matter volume account for variability of cerebellar TDCS effects on verbal working memory

Andreas Brandmaier (Berlin)
SEM - latent tree modeling with SEM-trees

Agnieszka Z. Burzynska (Berlin)
Structural and functional brain correlates of individual and age differences in executive performance

Rumana Chowdhury (London)
Decision-making in normal aging

Marta I. Garrido (London)
Cortical and subcortical pathways of salient stimuli

Irma Kurniawan (London)
Physical effort expenditure and outcome valence Dar Meshi (Berlin)
The influence of advice on decision making

Claudia Preuschhof (Berlin)
KIBRA polymorphism is related to brain structure and function during reward anticipation

Patrick Ragert (Leipzig/Berlin)
Functional and structural plasticity after complex motor skill learningin humans

Julia Sacher (Leipzig/Berlin)
Impact of hormonal fluctuations on the female brain

Myriam C. Sander (Berlin)
Lifespan age differences in neural markers of working memory

Florian Schlagenhauf (Berlin)
Reversal learning deficits in schizophrenia patients

Tamara Shiner (London)
Dopamine medication in Parkinson’s disease influences performance rather than acquisition in a reinforcement learning task

Peter Smittenaar (London)
Dopaminergic influences on goal-directed and habitual decision-making

Viola S. Störmer (Berlin)
Neural mechanisms underlying age-related decline in early visual attentional selection and working memory capacity

Ivo Vlaev (London)
Relativities in valuation of experience

Wako Yoshida (London)
Cooperation, belief inference and autistic mind

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