Decision Making and the Brain - lecture by dr. Jasper Winkel (Leiden university)
82In this introductory lecture, dr. Jasper Winkel teaches about "decision making and the brain". The lecture gives a broad strokes view on different aspects of decision making, and how psychologists and neuroscientists study these. This is very much an interdisciplinary breadth over depth approach that does not require a lot of prior knowledge. Topics include perceptual decision making, consumer decisions, behavioral economics, moral decisions, the evolution of morality and free will.
dr. Jasper Winkel originally made this lecture for an interdisciplinary honors course on "the Brain" at the University of Amsterdam. It later formed the basis for his own more in-depth elective 3rd year psychobiology course "Decision Making and the Brain". It's most recently featured as one of his two lectures in the course "Perception, Attention and Decision Making", which is part of the minor in Brain and Cognition at Leiden University; the latter going into several topics more in-depth under the header of "Manipulating Decisions", which will feature here soon as well.
Work discussed in this video:
Birte Forstmann - model-based cognitive neuroscience
Roger Ratcliff - drift diffusion model
Michael Shadlen - evidence integration in macaque LIP
Antonio Rangel - Drift Diffusion Model - eye tracking
Daniel Kahneman - Prospect theory
Alan Sanfey - Ultimatum game fMRI
Joshua Greene - Moral dilemmas
John Maynard Smith - Hawks/doves
Benjamin Libet - Lateralized Readiness Potential, free will
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