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Daniel Kimmel
Neurosciences, Medicine
Bio-X Affymetrix Graduate Student Fellowship
Professor William Newsome (Neurobiology)
When we make decisions, we must consider both the costs and benefits associated with each choice. In the world of economics, this problem is often solved by reducing costs and benefits to a common currency, namely money. The Newsome laboratory believes the brain solves the problem similarly by representing benefit, cost and net value as discrete neural signals. To test this, they make economic offers to monkeys while they record from or manipulate the activity of neurons underlying the animals' decision to accept or reject their offers. Their results will shed light on the neural basis of value. |
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