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Simons Foundation Presidential Lectures

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<h2>The 'Assembling Information to Guide Decisions: When It Works, and How It Can Go Wrong' lecture is part of The Neuroscience of Decision Making Presidential Lecture Series in Neuroscience.</h2>

Difficult decisions often rely on multiple sources of information, especially when each source individually is somewhat unreliable. In this lecture, Anne Churchland will discuss her lab's discovery that rodents – like humans – understand when multiple sources of information bear on the same decision. Further, both species are skilled at figuring out the reliability of each information source and letting each piece of information appropriately guide the decision. She hypothesizes that similar brain circuits support these clever decisions in both rodents and humans and fail in similar ways during bad choices. Her team's measurements of neural activity during decision-making are beginning to reveal which brain areas are involved and how neurons within those areas perform the computations needed to guide skilled decisions. <a href="https://neurobio.ucla.edu/people/anne-churchland/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Churchland</a> is a professor in neurobiology and the Arnold Scheibel Chair of Neuroscience at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. She combines experimental work with analysis and theoretical modeling to understand the neural circuits that perform the computations supporting decision-making. She is a co-founder of the International Brain Laboratory, serves on the advisory committee to the director of the National Institutes of Health and was a member of the BRAIN2.0 Working Group for the BRAIN Initiative.To attend this in-person event, you will need to register in advance and provide:<ul><li>Acceptable proof of vaccination (vaccine card/certificate, a copy or photo of vaccine card/certificate or electronic NYS Excelsior Pass or NJ Docket Pass)</li><li>Photo ID</li><li>Eventbrite ticket confirmation email with QR code</li><li>Simons Foundation Health Screening Questionnaire approval email</li></ul>Guests are expected to complete these requirements each time they visit the Simons Foundation and entrance will not be granted without this documentation.On-site registration will not be permitted. Walk-in entry will be denied.SCHEDULEDoors Open: 5:30 p.m.Lecture: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.The Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and offers accessible seating to visitors with special access needs.

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