Séminaire de Leonie Koban

Friday May 5, 2023 at 1PM- Salle Henri Gastaut, INT

Leonie Koban (Institut du Cerveau, CNRS-Inserm-APHP-Sorbonne Université)
invited by Damiano Terenzi and Christelle Baunez

Social influences on emotion and decision-making:From behavior to predictive brain models

Abstract: How we experience the world and how we behave is strongly influenced by social factors. What are the brain systems that mediate social influences on behavior? In the first part of the talk, I will present behavioral and fMRI studies that show how pain, affect, and food craving is altered by social information. In the second part, I will discuss how we can combine machine-learning with brain imaging to develop ‘brain models’ that predict mental states such as food and drug craving as well as individual differences in decision-making, across individuals and samples. These brain models can be used as new targets to probe the effects of social context and of different types of interventions.