Guest Lectures: Maarten Bos (Nijmegen) & Pieter Goltstein (Amsterdam)

“Unconscious thought in decision making” and “Remembering favorite places: cross-structural replay of contextual and reward information in hippocampus and ventral striatum”

Two 30-minute talks hosted by Henrik Walter. Please note: LOCATION (map here):
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Lecture Halll, Philippstraße 13, HU Campus Nord, Haus 6, 10115 Berlin

Maarten Bos

“Unconscious thought in decision making” Previous studies showed that unconscious thought improves the quality of decisions. Unconscious thought actually leads to better decisions than conscious thought under certain circumstances. For instance when a decision problem is complex. The question we addressed in our research is under which conditions unconscious thought does occur and when unconscious thought outperforms conscious thought in decision making. Dijksterhuis, A., Bos, M.W., Nordgren, L.F., & van Baaren, R.B. (2006). On making the right choice: The deliberation-without-attention effect. Science, 311,
1005-1007. http://www.unconsciouslab.com/index.php?page=People&subpage=Maarten%20Bos

Pieter Goltstein

“Remembering favorite places: cross-structural replay of contextual and reward information in hippocampus and ventral striatum” http://www.sils-cns.nl/GenPennartz.html

All are welcome!

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