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How Does Your Brain Make Everyday Decisions? [Video]
By Columbia University on Nov 24, 2019
Analyzing Brain Decision Making

Hot coffee or cold brew? Pizza or pasta for dinner? These are the decisions that guide our
everyday lives. What computations do our brains make when weighing these choices?

At Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, Akram Bakkour, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research scientist in

the Shohamy lab, investigates the ways in which our brain incorporates our memories and past
experiences into the everyday decision-making process. He and his Zuckerman Institute
collaborators, including Principal Investigators Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D., and Michael Shadlen,
MD, Ph.D., recently found that the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center, plays a central role
in this deliberation process. These findings were published in the journal eLife.

Reference: “The hippocampus supports deliberation during value-based decisions” by Akram

Bakkour, Daniela J Palombo, Ariel Zylberberg, Yul HR Kang, Allison Reid, Mieke Verfaellie,
Michael N Shadlen and Daphna Shohamy, 3 July 2019, eLife.
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.46080.001

Behavioral ScienceBrainColumbia University

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