Forschung
- Wertheimer Kolloquium
- Julia Karbach: Neurocognitive plasticity across the lifespan
- Andreas Reif: Vom Molekül zur Klinik und zurück
- David Kaplan: The Future of Quantitative Inquiry in the Social Sciences
- Guillaume Rousselet: Early face brain activity
- Roy Baumeister: How Rejection Affects People
- Melissa Võ: Reading Scenes
- Jeremy Wolfe: Dancing chickens and gorillas in the lung
- Prof. Silvia A. Bunge: Reasoning to learn, and learning to reason
- SoSe 2014
- WiSe 2013/2014
- SoSe 2012
- WiSe 2011/2012
Wertheimer Kolloquium - WiSe 2011/2012
Leader Punishment and Cooperation in Groups: Experimental Field Evidence from Commons Management in Ethiopia
Mittwoch, 23.11.2011, 16:00 Uhr, Raum H201A (Mertonstr. 17)
Prof. Dr. Michael Kosfeld, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
We study whether differences in the propensity of actual leaders to enforce cooperation by punishing group members as a third party in a social dilemma game can explain the variation in the performance of these groups in managing their forest commons. Our results highlight the importance of leaders in collective action, emphasizing the significant role of leaders’ other- regarding motives for cooperation outcomes.
Brain-wide synchronization networks subserve selective attention
Mittwoch, 01.02.2011, 16:00 Uhr, Raum H201A (Mertonstr. 17)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Pascal Fries, Ernst-Strüngmann-Institut, Frankfurt am Mai
Selective attention entails the selective routing of relevant information between brain areas. I will demonstrate that this selective routing is subserved by the selective synchronization between those brain regions that process relevant information. In particular, higher level visual cortex that can respond to input from different parts of primary visual cortex, synchronizes selectively to those parts that represent a relevant stimulus, even if other parts are activated by irrelevant stimuli.
