Columbia University in the City of New York

Oct 23, 20184:00 pm
Seminar

Uncertainty in Brain and Behavior Across the Lifespan and in Psychopathology

Featuring Ifat Levy, PhD, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine, Neuroscience and Psychology, Yale University

October 23rd, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th floor lecture hall)

This seminar will be held in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia's Manhattanville campus (9th floor lecture hall). Columbia University's Intercampus Shuttle Service is the best way to travel between campuses.

Individuals vary substantially in their attitudes towards uncertainty: some embrace it, while others avoid it at all costs; some learn quickly to reduce uncertainty, while others do not. Dr. Levy will describe a series of behavioral and neuroimaging studies, in which she and her team examined decision-making, learning and passive valuation in uncertain environments. Their behavioral results show age-related changes in specific features of behavior under uncertainty, as well as links between some of these features and pathological behavior. Their neural results reveal potential mechanisms for these individual and age- related differences.

Dr. Levy received her PhD in computational neuroscience from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Rafi Malach from the Weizmann Institute. She then moved to NYU, to do postdoctoral research under the supervision of Paul Glimcher. In 2009 Ifat started a faculty position at Yale University, where she is now an associate professor. Her lab uses behavioral and neuroimaging tools to study decision making and valuation under uncertainty, both in the general population and in clinical populations.

Those who wish to meet the speaker during their visit should contact Nicholas Singletary. For general inquiries please contact [email protected].

The Columbia Neuroscience Seminar series is a collaborative effort of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.

Venue: the Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th floor lecture hall)
3227 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

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