Title：Genetic and environmental contributions to decision-making and its neural basis in adolescents and young adults

Speaker：Zhou Yuan from CAS

Date：25 May 2021

Time: 12:00PM-13:30PM

Location：HongYuan Building 311

Abstract:

People make numerous decisions through their life and different people often make different choices even facing the same situation. How to understand the biological origin of inter-individual differences in decision-making attracts significant attentions from psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. Decades of research have consistently shown that many of our psychological traits and our brain structure/function are substantially heritable. However, the genetic and environmental contributions to inter-individual differences of decision-making and its neural basis still need to be determined. Twin design is a powerful venue to provide important clues as to the sources of these inter-individual differences. In this talk, I will present findings from our behavioral and fMRI twin studies on decision-making and personality related to decision-making, including fairness preference, risk propensity, and trait impulsivity.

Speaker:

Prof Zhou is working on our NSFC key project involving decision making experiments with multiple modalities including imaging, genetics, physiological and pharmacological intervention in addition to eyetracking, SCR, eyetracking, mousetracking, reaction time.

http://sourcedb.psych.cas.cn/en/epsychexpert/201103/t20110329_3096101.html