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SUMMARY:Neurocomputational basis of social learning and decision-making - 
 Dr. Patricia Lockwood\, MRC Fellow\, Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow\,
  University of Oxford
DTSTART:20200115T150000Z
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CONTACT:Elisa Militaru
DESCRIPTION:The question of whether humans are fundamentally selfish or pr
 osocial has intrigued many disciplines from philosophy to economics for ce
 nturies. From small acts of kindness to major sacrifices\, just how willin
 g are humans to help others?\n\nHere I will describe a set of studies usin
 g computational models of effort-based decision-making and reinforcement l
 earning\, in combination with functional neuroimaging\, to understand how 
 willing people are to put in effort to help others (prosocial motivation) 
 and how people are able to learn which of their actions help others (proso
 cial learning). I will then discuss how basic associative learning process
 es might underlie our tendency to be biased towards self rather than other
 -related information in terms of ownership.\n\nI will show that in general
 \, people care more about their own outcomes than others\, but that there 
 are substantial individual differences that are linked to specific brain a
 reas. Moreover\, I will discuss how healthy ageing could be associated wit
 h changes in prosociality and therefore the importance of considering pros
 ocial behaviour from a lifespan perspective. Overall\, these findings coul
 d have important implications for understanding everyday social learning a
 nd decision-making and its disruption in disorders of social behaviour suc
 h as psychopathy.\n\n_Dr. Patricia Lockwood is an MRC Fellow\, Junior Rese
 arch Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Oxford and is staring as a S
 enior Research Fellow/Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham 
 from summer 2020. Patricia completed her BSc in Psychology and Philosophy 
 at the University of Bristol and her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Univers
 ity College London. Her research investigates social learning and decision
 -making across the lifespan and in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
  She has won several awards for her work including the European Society fo
 r Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Young Scientist Award\, the Associa
 tion for Psychological Science Rising Star Award and the Frith Prize for e
 xceptional PhD contributions._
LOCATION: Kenneth Craik Room\, Craik Marshall Building\, Downing Site
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