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Neuroscience of Decision Making Sam uel McClure Psycholog y Departm ent 1 5 May 2 0 0 8 The Ultim atum Gam e $ 1 0 to divide between two players Proposer chooses a division Receiver can either Accept: both receive


  1. Neuroscience of Decision Making Sam uel McClure Psycholog y Departm ent 1 5 May 2 0 0 8

  2. The Ultim atum Gam e • $ 1 0 to divide between two players • “Proposer” chooses a division • “Receiver” can either – Accept: both receive proposed am ounts – Reject: both receive nothing • How m uch should the Proposer offer?

  3. The Trolley Problem 8 5 %

  4. The Footbridge Problem 1 2 %

  5. Intertem poral choice • Choice involving rewards available at different tim e delays

  6. Example W ould you rather have $ 1 0 today or $ 1 1 tom orrow? W ould you rather have $ 1 0 in a year or $ 1 1 in a year and a day?

  7. Can behavior be captured by form al m odels?

  8. The astonishing hypothesis • “You, your joys and your sorrows, your m em ories and your am bitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no m ore than the behavior of a vast assem bly of nerve cells and their associated m olecules” (Crick) • W ith m echanistic / com putational m odels of the brain we m ay be able to derive laws of behavior

  9. Introduction to the brain • Approxim ately 1 0 0 billion neurons • Each with up to 1 0 ,0 0 0 connections with other neurons • Most com plicated com putation device known in the universe • Com m unication via electrical im pulses and propag ated by chem ical synapses

  10. Brain Recording Methods

  11. Brain Stim ulation Reward A neural substrate that replaces external reward

  12. Midbrain dopam ine system

  13. Single-unit Recording

  14. • Encode a reward prediction error • For a stim ulus that predicts reward, dopam ine f i ring indicates value of reward (Schultz et al., 1 9 9 7 )

  15. Role for the prefrontal cortex • Greatly expanded in people com pared to other anim als • Supports higher cognitive processes (working m em ory) • Critical for decision-m aking (e.g. shopping experim ent)

  16. Recording hum an brain activity: Functional Mag netic Resonance Im ag ing • Allows m easurem ent of brain activity at the scale of individual brain structures (m m ) • Tem poral resolution is on the order of m any cognitive processes (sec) • Non-invasive → For the f i rst tim e we can m easure close to the root cause of decision m aking

  17. Hypothesis Dopam ine-related reward system s discount reward at a higher rate than does the prefrontal cortex. 1 .0 DA-related system s discount value prefrontal cortex 0 .0 tim e

  18. Free Response 2 s 12 s ∈ { Today, 2 weeks, 1 month } d ∈ { 2 weeks, 1 month } d'-d ∈ {1%, 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 25%, 35%, 50%} (R'-R)/R

  19. Reg ions that respond preferentially to im m ediately available rewards A 10 MPFC VStr MOFC PCC T 13 0 x = 4mm y = 8mm z = -4mm PCC VStr MOFC MPFC B 0.4 % Signal Change 0.2 0.0 -0.2 -4 0 4 8 Time (s) d = Today d = 2 weeks d = 1 month

  20. Reg ions that respond equally to rewards at all delays A B VCtx PMA RPar 1.2 DLPFC RPar % Signal Change 0.8 0.4 LOFC 0.0 x = 44mm -4 0 4 8 Time (s) PMA VCtx DLPFC VLPFC LOFC SMA x = 0mm 10 0 T 13 d = Today d = 2 weeks d = 1 month

  21. Relative activity by choice 0.05 Normalized Signal Change prefrontal 0.0 dopamine -0.05 Choose Choose Early Late

  22. Am ygdala and the Ultim atum Gam e Sanfey et al. (2 0 0 3 ) Unfair Offers 1 0 0 Contrast Value 6 0 Prefrontal Cortex Insular Cortex 4 0 2 0 Accept Reject

  23. fMRI Results Greene et al. (2001) Posterior Medial Frontal Cortex Cingulate/ Precuneus Angular Gyrus Dorsolateral Emotional Areas Prefrontal “Cognitive” Areas Cortex (PFC) Brain Activity Moral Personal Moral Im personal Non-m oral Dilem m as Dilem m as Dilem m as

  24. VMPFC and m orality

  25. People are utilitarian without VMPFC

  26. Transcranial Mag netic Stim ulation (TMS)

  27. Stim ulating DLPFC increases acceptance of unfair offers in the Ultim atum Gam e 1 6 /4 offers

  28. Are people generally rational? • “Autom atic” brain responses create biases and heuristics that are probably g enerally correct • W e also have a prefrontal cortex to enable f l exible behavior and correct decision errors (som etim es)

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