# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 26 Oct, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Mon, 26 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+00:00) - **Event Description**: Professor John Duncan FRS MRC - A.V. Hill LectureAbout this EventOur behaviour is characteristically organized in a hierarchical structure of goals and subgoals, with many fragments of behaviour contributing to an everyday activity such as making breakfast or attending a lecture. Such goal-directed structures are often impaired following major damage to the frontal lobes of the brain. I shall describe a core discovery of human brain imaging – a nine-patch network recruited for addressing a very broad range of cognitive challenges, based in frontal cortex but with additional components elsewhere. This network is strongly activated by a standard test of “fluid intelligence”, known to predict success in all kinds of activities and presumably requiring mental operations of very widespread importance. From human brain imaging, I shall move on to electrophysiology in the behaving monkey. In a network of frontal lobe regions, putatively homologous to regions of the human network, I shall show encoding of core components of a goal-directed plan – current state, goal, component moves and hierarchy. Damage to this network, I suggest, underlies the broad behavioural impairment that can follow frontal lobe damage. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/5d2fb820-a804-11f1-a4a1-eb59356bc08b-rimg-w1200-h675-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/the-organization-of-goal-directed-behaviour-in-the-brain/100001988899836952 - **Event Categories**: fitness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute) - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Cambridge - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute) - **lat**: 52.1980082 - **long**: 0.12603309999997236 - **full address**: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute), 29 Lensfield Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/4e17670d87f9fd1ccbfbc109c6401f5c2f15299dd654ee5ccab3f6294d8206fb-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8b838-gmir.jpg?v=1786312953 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain being held? - **A:** The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain takes place on Mon, 26 Oct, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Mon, 26 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm at Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute), 29 Lensfield Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain? - **A:** The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain is organized by Cambridge Philosophical Society. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/4e17670d87f9fd1ccbfbc109c6401f5c2f15299dd654ee5ccab3f6294d8206fb-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8b838-gmir.jpg?v=1786312953", "startDate": "2026-10-26T17:30:00+00:00", "endDate": "2026-10-26T18:30:00+00:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/cambridge/the-organization-of-goal-directed-behaviour-in-the-brain/100001988899836952", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute)", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "29 Lensfield Road", "postalCode": "CB2 1ER", "addressLocality": "Cambridge", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "52.1980082", "longitude": "0.12603309999997236" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Professor John Duncan FRS MRC - A.V. 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