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METIS-Lecture 2025: Dr Petra Ritter
Online
We are excited to share that Dr. Petra Ritter will be holding the METIS-Lecture 2025. The topic of the lecture will be, 'Decision Making Fast and Slow: Unconscious Bias and the Virtual Brain'.
One way to understand discrimination is that it stems from an exclusionary decision-making process in the brain that influences our daily lives, yet we are often unconscious of the biases we hold. Even when we recognize that our actions are informed by biases, their underlying neural basis has remained a mystery. How does our brain’s structure shape our decisions? How are unconscious biases formed in the brain?
This online lecture explores how brain simulations—computational models of neural processes—can serve as powerful tools to investigate unconscious bias. Furthermore, it will explore how our modes of thinking can aid our awareness of these biases within the academic world.
Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter will address the influence of unconscious bias on our brains. She will present a framework for the simulation of individual human virtual brain twins (thevirtualbrain.org). She will discuss how brain simulation helps us understand human decision-making and its relationship to the unconscious bias that can lead to discrimination.
Please register by emailing metis-online@hu-berlin.de. A Zoom link will be provided after registration.
