Neuroscience Monday 10/19 Lecture
時間：2026年10月19日（星期一）下午5:30 – 7:00
地點：臺大校總區心理系北館N100階梯教室
講員：吳仕煒特聘教授/陽明交通大學神經科學研究所
講題：Overreactions, underreactions, and their neurocomputational substrates
講題：Overreactions, underreactions, and their neurocomputational substrates
摘要：
From March to June 2021, in the middle of the COVID pandemic, inflation rate in the United States rose from 1% to 4.5%. At the time, the Federal Reserve interpreted such a rise as only temporary and suggested that it would fall on its own. It was not until the following year that the Fed started to aggressively rack up interest rates to slow down inflation, at which point the inflation rate was well over 6%. Did the Fed wait for too long? Although the answer to this question is most definitely complicated, we sure do ponder on similar questions in our daily lives and want to know more about it. In the talk, I will describe our recent work on system neglect — the tendency that people focus primarily on signals and secondarily on the system that generates these signals — and how it leads to under- and overreactions. I will also talk about how this psychologically motivated hypothesis helps us to uncover the neural mechanisms for under- and overreactions. Finally, I will share ongoing work combining human fMRI with intracranial EEG to understand how contextual factors impact judgment and decision making.