In this and next week, we will have two speakers at the SWE Colloquium who are interested in the neural basis of behavior and cognition.

This week (Thursday, Nov. 17, 13:00), Maël Lebreton from the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making at the University of Amsterdam will give a talk about interactions of valuation and confidence in the brain. Maël is a post-doctoral researcher with a background in Biosciences and has conducted (and published) quite a few studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Next week (Thursday, Nov. 24, 13:00), we will have Tobias Sommer with us, a prinicipal investigator at the Department of Systems Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He is an expert in the field of episodic memory research and will talk about modulations of memory consolidation.