Tag: John Assad

  • Campus & Community

    A boost to international learning

    Eight faculty led programs designed to give students international experience have received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.

    4–5 minutes
  • Health

    Transitivity, the orbitofrontal cortex, and neuroeconomics

    You study the menu at a restaurant and decide to order the steak rather than the salmon. But when the waiter tells you about the lobster special, you decide lobster trumps steak. Without reconsidering the salmon, you place your order — all because of a trait called “transitivity.” “Transitivity is the hallmark of rational economic…

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Attention shoppers: Researchers find neurons that encode the value of different goods

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School report in the April 23, 2006 issue of Nature that they have identified neurons that encode the values that subjects assign to different items. The activity of these neurons might facilitate the process of decision-making that occurs when someone chooses between different goods. “We have long known that different neurons…

    1–2 minutes