Speaker
Birte Forstmann
Description
The subcortex has paramount importance for cognitive processes and is affected early in practically all neurodegenerative diseases. Yet, in the past decades, the human neurosciences have been dominated by a cortico-centric viewpoint, while the human subcortex, the Deep Brain, has remained relatively uncharted territory. I will introduce a novel Bayesian joint modeling of brain and behavior that explores the functional role of cortico-subcortical loops in adaptive decision making. Finally, I will explain how the combination of these methodologies will advance a powerful vision of a truly whole-brain conceptual understanding of cognition in the living human brain.