The flexible control of motivational strategy: role of dopamine
Dopamine has long been implicated in cognitive control. Cognitive control is increasingly recognized to involve meta-decision making between distinct computational strategies, as illustrated by the safety-efficiency, stability-flexibility, labor-leisure and control-autopilot tradeoffs. In my talk, I will present pharmacological intervention studies addressing the role of dopamine in a specific type of computational dilemma, that between instrumental and Pavlovian control of reward-based decision-making. The work illustrates how pharmacological intervention studies can help disentangle several alternative accounts of dopamine’s role in the motivational biasing of decision-making.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Roshan Cools is Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Radboud University Medical Center. She is an expert in the chemical neuromodulation of human cognition and motivation. Her PhD is from the University of Cambridge (UK), where she trained with Trevor Robbins and held Royal Society research fellowships. She also did a postdoc at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley, with Mark D’Esposito. At the Donders, she steers an active research group (www.roshancools.com), combining psychopharmacology, fMRI, chemical PET imaging, computational cognitive modelling, neurostimulation and patient work to unravel how the adaptive control of behaviour is modulated by the major ascending neuromodulators, including dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline. She holds a Horizon Europe ERC Advanced grant, and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
TO JOIN THE TALK ONLINE
us06web.zoom.us/j/81189692080?pwd=d3VFKzhacVBqd0hlak1oQXZNM2RYUT09
Meeting ID: 811 8969 2080
Passcode: 125174
Date:
3 June 2024, 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue:
New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details:
Seminar room 2, 2nd floor
Speaker:
Professor Roshan Cools (Radboud University Medical Centre)
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Organiser:
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
hod.office@psy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa
