Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. “When you know it’s not a good idea to spend all that money, why do you do it anyways? Why can people not control their behaviour?” These are some of the questions UBC Psychology Professor Michael Souza asks himself as he works on creating a new course on the psychology of gambling.
In this lecture, Michael Souza reviews reward and addiction from a behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological standpoint. He examines the social psychology behind gambling behavior, casino structuring and casino marketing.
Speaker Bio
Michael Souza is an Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include the frontal lobes and executive functions, with a particular interest in changes due to age, psychological illness or neurological injury. Cognitive training and neuroplasticity.
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Wendelken, C., Munakata, Y., Baym, C., Souza, M.J. & Bunge, S.A. (2012). Flexible rule use: common neural substrates in children and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(3): 329-39. [Link]
Souza, M.J., Donohue, S.E. & Bunge, S.A. (2009). Controlled retrieval and selection of action-relevant knowledge mediated by partially overlapping regions in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage, 46(1): 299-307. [Link]
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