Aldo Genovesio

Speaker information

Aldo Genovesio is professor at the Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Farmacologia, I Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, University of Rome “La Sapienza“.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Behavioural neurophyiology and neuroanatomy
Neural correlate of visuomotor transformations for eye and arm movements
Cortical representation of visual three-dimensional space
Conditional motor learning and representation of abstract strategies
Representation of past and future goals
Neural correlates of interval timing
Social Cognition

Aldo Genovesio : Role of prefrontal cortex in decision making: across-task interference effects in a duration discrimination task and prediction of others choices in a social interactive task.

Tuesday, 8 September, 2015 - 09:30 to 11:00
My talk will focus on two neurophysiological studies of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of Macaque Monkeys. In the first part I will present a schematic model of decision making in a duration discrimination task formulated by combining neural and behavioral analyses. The model describes how the comparison between the duration of two stimuli presented in sequence depends on intermediate neural computation mechanisms based on their order of presentation and how this computation could generate across-task interference effects on the performance in other contexts. 
 
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