How does the brain combine historical knowledge and online processing in decision making?

大脑如何将历史知识和在线处理结合起来进行决策？

• 批准号: G0802459/1
• 负责人: Jill O'Reilly
• 金额: $ 53.36万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=G0802459%2F1
• 关键词: How; does; brain; combine; historical

I will investigate how people‘s brains combine different sources of information to decide which action to make. In particular, I will look at how people combine new information with what they know from experience.I will use brain imaging to see which parts of the brain ‘light up‘ when people play a computer game which requires them to combine their past experience with new information to catch falling ‘bombs‘. I will make computer simulations of what goes on in the brain when people play the game, and try to associate activity in the simulations with the activity we see in the brains of real people. I hope to improve out understanding of how people make decisions and select actions. Although the research I am proposing here is not clinically oriented, it will contribute to an understanding of how the healthy brain processes information to make decisions: This is important for understanding many psychiatric problems, in which these processes are distorted. A further benefit to health research will be that through this project and my training I will help improve the technology we have for interpreting brain imaging data, which is used in neurological and psychiatric research.

我将研究人们的大脑是如何结合不同来源的信息来决定采取何种行动的。特别是，我将研究人们如何将新信息与他们的经验结合起来。当人们玩电脑游戏时，我将使用脑成像技术来观察大脑的哪个部分会“活跃起来”，因为这需要他们将过去的经验与新信息结合起来，以抓住下落的“炸弹”。我会用电脑模拟人们玩游戏时大脑的活动，并尝试将模拟中的活动与我们在真人大脑中看到的活动联系起来。我希望提高我们对人们如何做决定和选择行动的理解。虽然我在这里提出的研究不是临床导向的，但它将有助于理解健康的大脑如何处理信息以做出决定：这对理解许多精神问题很重要，在这些问题中，这些过程是扭曲的。健康研究的另一个好处是，通过这个项目和我的培训，我将帮助改进我们用于解释脑成像数据的技术，这种技术用于神经学和精神病学研究。