Dr. Thom Elston Presentation: Feature-based valuation and its impairment in psychiatric disease

Part of the Summer Internship Speaker’s Series

Presenter: Dr. Thomas Elston

Bio: Dr. Thomas Elston is a systems neuroscientist interested in the neural foundations of cognitive control, which relates to our ability to align our behavior with our goals. The goal of his Lab is to understand how the prefrontal cortex interacts with other areas to facilitate aspects of cognitive control related to attention, decision-making and self-control in non-human primates. Through characterizing these mechanisms, the Elston Lab aims to create brain-computer interfaces that will enable scientists to directly interact with the physiology of cognition and improve the lives of people living with neurological disorders where cognitive control is impaired. Dr. Elston earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand and, before joining UT Austin, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Time: 11am to noon

Hybrid

Location: Health Discovery Building Rm 1.204 (in-person)

Register: https://bit.ly/43Df10M