What our brains want

When:
October 26, 2017 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2017-10-26T19:00:00+01:00
2017-10-26T20:30:00+01:00
Where:
The Royal Institution
21 Albemarle St
Mayfair, London W1S
UK
Cost:
£16/£10
Contact:
Royal Institution
020 7409 2992

Our sense of reward motivates us and is essential for survival, so when the system malfunctions, it can lead to big problems. Hear Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz and Peter Dayan, winners of this year’s Brain Prize, discuss their ground-breaking work on how the brain recognises and processes reward with Claudia Hammond, the host of BBC’s ‘All in the mind’.