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9780198824367

How the Brain Makes Decisions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198824367

  • ISBN10:

    019882436X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2020-12-08
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Thomas Boraud, Senior Researcher, IMN, CNRS-Universit? de Bordeaux

After a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Thomas Boraud secured a tenured research position in the CNRS in 2001. Since then, he hsa obtained financial support to control his own research projects and developed a research team made up of 7 senior researchers and an equivalent number of PhD and post-Doc Researchers. He was president of the Parkinson's committee of Fondation de France (2009-2012) and has been elected president of the IBAGs for 2017-2019. He is currently the Adjoint Director of the Institute of the Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bordeaux. He was awarded the Prix d'excellence Scientifique (2010) and Prix Innovation de la Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (2010).

Table of Contents


Introduction
Intoduction to the English edition
1. Twenty-five centuries of debate: a short history of decision making
2. A Ghost in the Machine: Neurobiology of decision making
The Neurobiology of Decision Making
3. Introduction to information transfer in the nervous system
4. The winner takes all: How decisions emerge
5. The lamphrey's dilemma
6. Learn to earn
7. From pallium to cortex: the coup of the telencephalon
8. The Eminence Grise
9. A Hierarchy of Decision
10. Noise and rationality
Is Rationality rational
11. Reason under scrutiny
12. Mental representation
13. Mirror, mirror!
14. Anticipation and utility
15. The grandmaster and the playmates
16. Machine Learning Approach of Reinforcement Learning
17. The decision engine
Rationality, the final frontier
18. Bias and heuristics
19. Pathologies of decision making
20. Free-will
21. Open questions
22. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendices

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