Experimental Psychology Departmental Seminar - Dopamine and decisions about cognitive control
Failures of cognitive control are common. Why do we so often fail to exert cognitive control? Classic (prefrontal) models of cognitive control address our ability to implement control. Recent advances have shifted the question to how we decide whether to recruit cognitive control. This involves re-conceptualizing cognitive control as a cost/benefit-based decision instead of an ability of implementation. I will review evidence that dopaminergic drugs like methylphenidate alter cognitive control, not just by modulating the ability to implement cognitive control, but also by biasing cost/benefit decision making about whether or not to exert cognitive control.
Date: 17 January 2019, 12:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2019)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Building
Speaker: Professor Roshan Cools (Donders Institute, Radboud UMC)
Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology
Host: Keno Juechems (University of Oxford)
Part of: Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Laura Freeth, David Fernandez Clavero