Discover more about Your Amazing Brain in 6 exciting lectures at Discover Bucks Museum brought to you by scientists from the University of Oxford, designed to complement our new exhibition; Your Amazing Brain, a user’s guide.
Lecture: Your Decisive Brain: How does your brain make decisions?
by Professor Mark Walton
Our brain circuits and chemistry shape the decisions we make. The activity in particular brain networks can make us more or less likely to be impulsive, more or less likely to take on risky options, more or less likely to be willing to work for reward. I will discuss what we know about how our brain weighs the costs and benefits of a choice to allow us – at least some of the time! – to make appropriate decisions.
