The challenge now is to begin to understand how lower level mental processes manifest themselves in higher order decisions and behaviour, particularly sub-optimal behaviours

Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. He is interviewed here before the start of the Daedalus Trust /Brain Mind Forum Research Café held 7 October 2011, Magdalen College, Oxford

“In neuroscience we’ve experienced an explosion of knowledge into how the human and animal brain functions at a low level. The challenge now is to begin to understand how lower level mental processes manifest themselves in higher order decisions and behaviour, particularly sub-optimal behaviours such as … making gambling decisions or taking drugs.”