The organization of goal-directed behaviour in the brain
Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 17:30 - 18:30
Location: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry
Our behaviour is characteristically organized in a hierarchical structure of goals and subgoals, with many fragments of behaviour contributing to an everyday activity such as making breakfast or attending a lecture. Such goal-directed structures are often impaired following major damage to the frontal lobes of the brain. I shall describe a core discovery of human brain imaging – a nine-patch network recruited for addressing a very broad range of cognitive challenges, based in frontal cortex but
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